21. februar 2012, 12:27 – opdateret 21. februar 2012, 12:36

The Conservative Party is slowly sliding towards extinction.

Support for the 97 year-old party shrank to 4.9% at the last election and polls show it's now hovering around 2.6%, only slightly above the 2% threshold needed for parliamentary representation. One in four voters predict that the party will soon be consigned to the history books, and 58 per cent express doubts as to whether it can ever regain its position as a significant political force.

Political watcher, Professor Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard of the Institute for Political Science at Copenhagen University, said the Conservatives may have lost a lot of voters to the Liberals and Liberal Alliance but it's probably the graveyard that’s claimed the most.

"The party has failed to renew itself and has consequently lost a lot of support. At the same time, its core support has got older and older and withered away," he said. "The Conservatives haven’t been pronounced dead yet but unless they address the problem they could slowly, yet surely, fade away.”