Election type

Sullissivik, Parliamentary Elections (Folketingimut qinersineq), accessed 31 March 2025

Postal voting 

You can vote by post if you are unable to attend the poll at the polling station where you are on the electoral roll on election day and you are otherwise entitled to vote. 

Where: You can vote by post depending on where you are on election day: 

• If you are staying in Greenland, you can vote by post in any population register 

• If you are admitted to a hospital or other health and care institution in Greenland, you can vote by post at the hospital or institution 

• If you are a prisoner in an institution in Greenland under the Danish Prison and Probation Service, you can vote by post at the institution 

• If you are staying at an airfield or a weather station in Greenland outside the municipal division, you can vote by post at a voting receiver appointed by the Minister for Economic Affairs and the Interior 

• If you live in a remote place in Greenland, if you do not constitute an independent voting district, you can vote by post at a person entitled to vote at a person authorised to vote appointed by the municipal council 

• If you are in Denmark, you can vote by post at a population register, at a citizen service centre, or at a polling station appointed by the Minister for Economic Affairs and the Interior 

• If you are staying in the Faroe Islands, you can vote by post at a population register or at the specially authorised polling stations in the Faroe Islands 

• If you are abroad, you can vote by post at a Danish diplomatic mission or consular post, or at a voting station appointed by the Minister for Economic Affairs and the Interior 

• Seafarers and passengers on board ships domiciled in Greenland or on Danish ships engaged in foreign voyages, as well as persons employed at Danish offshore facilities, can vote by post on the ship or offshore facility. The master or the person appointed by the master, the manager of the offshore facility or the person appointed by the manager, acts as the recipient of the vote. 

You can vote by post no earlier than 3 months before election day. However, special rules apply to certain seafarers. 

Your postal vote will only be counted in the calculation of the election if the polling officer at the place where you are on the electoral roll receives your postal vote before 9:00 a.m. on election day.

Nordic Co-operation, The Right to Vote in Greenland, accessed 31 March 2025

Postal voting in Greenland 

If you are permanently resident in Greenland and are prevented from voting on the election day, you can vote by post. Postal voting is possible in elections to both the Danish and Greenlandic parliaments, and in municipal elections. 

You can vote by post if you are in Greenland but do not have the opportunity to be physically present at the polling station on the election day, for example due to hospitalisation or incarceration, or because your place of work or residence is located in a remote part of Greenland. 

You can also vote by post if you are abroad due to a holiday, business trip or study programme, or if you have an illness that requires treatment abroad. In addition, you can vote by post if you work for the Government of Greenland abroad, or if you are a representative in the Danish Parliament or the Parliament of Greenland.