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1918 Danish Folketing election

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Field	Value
country	Denmark
previous_election	[1915](1915-danish-folketing-election)
next_election	April 1920
seats_for_election	All 140 seats in the Folketing
majority_seats	71
election_date	22 April 1918
leader1	Klaus Berntsen
party1	Venstre (Denmark)
last_election1	43
seats1	45
percentage1	29.41
leader2	Thorvald Stauning
party2	Social Democrats (Denmark)
last_election2	32
seats2	39
percentage2	28.66
leader3	Carl Theodor Zahle
party3	Danish Social Liberal Party
last_election3	31
seats3	32
percentage3	20.67
leader4	Emil Piper
party4	Conservative People's Party (Denmark)
last_election4	New
seats4	22
percentage4	18.29
party5	Industry Party
last_election5	New
seats5	1
percentage5	1.30
leader6	–
party6	Independents
last_election6	0
seats6	1
percentage6	0.40
title	Prime Minister
before_election	Carl Theodor Zahle
before_party	Danish Social Liberal Party
after_election	Carl Theodor Zahle
after_party	Danish Social Liberal Party
map	Folketing1918.svg

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

Electoral system

The Folketing was elected by rural–urban proportional representation. Copenhagen had 24 members elected by party-list proportional representation using the d'Hondt system, while in the rest of the country 93 members (42 in the Danish Islands and 51 in Jutland) were elected in single-member constituencies using first-past-the-post voting. There were a further 23 leveling seats to make the results more proportional.

Of the 23 leveling seats, twenty (nine in the islands and eleven in Jutland) were allocated on a regional basis, and three (one in the islands and two in Jutland) were allocated based on the nationwide vote (including Copenhagen). The allocation of candidates to leveling seats was based on a best-loser rule, using a form of Scorporo; in each single-member constituency a Hare quota of votes for the appropriate region was subtracted from the winner's votes and the remainders were pooled at a county level. The candidates with the highest proportion of the votes relative to the region's Hare quota were allocated the leveling seats.

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

Results

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
Nohlen & Stöver, p537
Saby, R. S.. (1919). "Danish Parliamentary Elections of 1918". American Political Science Review.
[https://www.thedanishparliament.dk/~/media/pdf/publikationer/english/the-parliamentary-system-of-denmark_2011.ashx The Parliamentary Electoral System in Denmark] {{Webarchive. link. (2022-01-21 Folketing)
Adolph, Jensen. (July 1918). "Rigsdagsvalgene i April-Maj 1918 med Suppleringsvalg i Tiden 1915-18". Danmarks Statistik.

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