ABSTRACT
In 1870, liberal fractions in parliament founded the Liberal Party (Venstre, V) and a few years later the conservative groups formed a more permanent PPG, the Conservative Party (Højre, renamed in 1915 Det konservative Folkeparti, KF). In this period, closer ties between the parliamentarians and their constituencies began to be established. The initiative came both from the parliamentarians themselves and from different associations of voters. The fact that these processes occurred simultaneously meant that the distinction between ‘internally’ and ‘externally’ created parties is only partly relevant here (although it does make sense to speak of a formal distinction between the PPG and an EPO).
