Johan Henrik Marcus Knuth (born 2 April 1976 in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

) is a Danish politician, who is a member of the

Folketing The Folketing ( da, Folketinget, ; ), also known as the Parliament of Denmark or the Danish Parliament in English, is the unicameral national legislature (parliament) of the Kingdom of Denmark—Denmark proper together with the Faroe Islands ...

for the Conservative People's Party. He was elected into parliament in the

2015 Danish general election General elections were held in the Kingdom of Denmark The Danish Realm ( da, Danmarks Rige; fo, Danmarkar Ríki; kl, Danmarkip Naalagaaffik), officially the Kingdom of Denmark (; ; ), is a sovereign state located in Northern Europe and Nor ...

Political career

Knuth was elected into parliament for the Venstre party in the 2015 election, where he received 7,351 votes. He was reelected in

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, where he received 9,523 votes. On 29 November 2019 Knuth decided to leave Venstre and join the Conservative People's Party

Bibliography

*''Marcus Knuth - ny mand på Borgen'' ( Gyldendal, 2019, co-author) *''Soldat og diplomat - mine 3 år i Afghanistan'' (Gyldendal, 2014)

References

External links

Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget)
Living people 1976 births Politicians from Copenhagen Danish writers Conservative People's Party (Denmark) politicians Venstre (Denmark) politicians Members of the Folketing 2015–2019 Members of the Folketing 2019–2022 University of Virginia alumni Harvard Kennedy School alumni {{Denmark-politician-stub