1918 Danish Folketing election

Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 22 April 1918,[2] the first in which women could vote. The result was a victory for Venstre, which won 45 of the 180 seats in the Folketing, which had been expanded from 114 to 140 seats. Voter turnout was 75.5%.[3]

22 April 1918

All 140 seats to the Folketing
71 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Klaus Berntsen	Thorvald Stauning	Carl Theodor Zahle
Party	Venstre	Social Democrats	Social Liberals
Last election	43 seats	32 seats	31 seats
Seats won	45	39	32
Seat change	2	7	1
Popular vote	269,646	262,796	189,521
Percentage	29.4%	28.7%	20.7%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Emil Piper	?
Party	Conservative	Industry
Last election	8 seats[1]	New
Seats won	22	1
Seat change	14	1
Popular vote	167,743	11,934
Percentage	18.3%	1.3%

Prime Minister before election

Carl Theodor Zahle
Social Liberals

Elected Prime Minister

Carl Theodor Zahle
Social Liberals

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Electoral system

The Folketing was elected by a mixture of proportional representation in Copenhagen and first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies in the rest of the country. Outside of Copenhagen there were 20 regional levelling seats in addition to three national levelling seats, which were intended make the results more proportional.

The 1918 elections were the only ones in Danish history to feature this mixed system.[4][5] Future elections would be entirely using proportional representation with the single-member districts not affecting the party-level results.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Venstre	269,646	29.4	45	+2
Social Democratic Party	262,796	28.7	39	+7
Danish Social Liberal Party	189,521	20.7	32	+1
Conservative People's Party	167,743	18.3	22	+14
Industry List	11,934	1.3	1	New
New Right	4,764	0.5	0	New
Voters of 1918	4,407	0.5	0	New
Socialist Workers Party	1,410	0.1	0	New
Independent Social Democracy	1,086	0.1	0	New
Independents	3,622	0.4	1	0
Invalid/blank votes	3,468	–	–	–
Total	920,397	100	140	+26
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

As Højre.
Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p524 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
Nohlen & Stöver, p537
The Parliamentary Electoral System in Denmark Folketing
Adolph, Jensen (July 1918). "Rigsdagsvalgene i April-Maj 1918 med Suppleringsvalg i Tiden 1915-18". Danmarks Statistik.

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See also: Elections and referendums in Greenland Faroe Islands

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