More specifically, the Danish and Norwegian parties incurred the worst electoral defeats in their histories in 1973. The share of the vote of the Danish Social Democratic party (Socialdemokratiet, SD) dropped from 37.3 to 25.6 percent. In the subsequent elections of the decade, the SD eventually staged a comeback, and in the 1977 and 1979 elections the party recouped its losses, receiving 38.3 percent of the vote in 1979. But in the 1981 election SD support slipped back to 32.9 percent and continued to decrease slightly in the 1984 election. The Norwegian party (Det Norske Arbeiderpartiet, DNA also experienced devastating losses in the 1973 election, declining from 46.5 to 35.3 percent of the vote. In the next election in 1977 the DNA bounced back and won 42.3 percent. At the close of the decade, party popularity began to sag again, and in the 1981 election the DNA received 37.2 percent. Both the Danish and Norwegian Social Democrats, however, managed to stay in office during most of the 1970s but lost control of the executive in the early 1980s.