Danish Folketing election, September 1920

21 September 1920

All 149 seats to the Folketing
75 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Niels Neergaard	Thorvald Stauning	Emil Piper
Party	Venstre	Social Democrats	Conservative People's
Last election	51 seats, 36.1%	42 seats, 29.9%	26 seats, 18.9%
Seats won	51	48	27
Seat change	0	6	1
Popular vote	411,661	389,653	216,733
Percentage	34.0%	32.2%	17.9%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Carl Theodor Zahle	?	?
Party	Social Liberals	Industry	Schleswig
Last election	16 seats, 11.5%	4 seats, 2.7%	New
Seats won	18	3	1
Seat change	2	1	1
Popular vote	147,120	27,403	7,505
Percentage	12.1%	2.3%	0.6%

Prime Minister before election

Niels Neergaard
Venstre

Elected Prime Minister

Niels Neergaard
Venstre

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Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 21 September 1920,^[1] except in the Faroe Islands, where they were held on 30 October. They were the first in which South Jutland County participated since the Schleswig Plebiscites and the return to Danish rule, and the total number of seats in the Folketing was increased from 140 to 149. The result was a victory for Venstre, which won 51 of the 149 seats. Voter turnout was 77.0% in Denmark proper and 56.2% in the Faroe Islands.^[2]

Results

Denmark

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Venstre	411,661	34.0	51	0
Social Democratic Party	389,653	32.2	48	+6
Conservative People's Party	216,733	17.9	27	+1
Danish Social Liberal Party	147,120	12.1	18	+2
Industry Party	27,403	2.3	3	–1
Schleswig Party	7,505	0.6	1	New
Free Social Democrats	6,460	0.5	0	New
Danish Left Socialist Party	5,160	0.4	0	New
Invalid/blank votes	2,673	–	–	–
Total	1,214,368	100	148	+9
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Faroe Islands

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Venstre-Union Party	3,243	63.6	1	0
Independent	2,142	36.4	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	11	–	–	–
Total	5,396	100	1	0
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p524 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p538

Elections and referendums in Denmark
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Other elections	Constituent Assembly 1848 Rigsraadet 1856 1864 1865
Referendums	1916 1920 1939 1953 1961 1963 1969 1971 1972 1978 1986 1992 1993 1998 2000 2009 2014 2015
See also: Elections and referendums in the Faroe Islands Elections and referendums in Greenland

Elections and referendums in the Faroe Islands
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