Danish Folketing election, 1939

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Danish Folketing election, 1939

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

  First party Second party Third party
  Stauning i1920-erne.jpg MadsenMygdal.jpg Christmas Moller.PNG
Leader Thorvald Stauning Thomas Madsen-Mygdal Christmas Møller
Party Social Democrats Venstre Conservative People's
Last election 68 seats, 46.1% 28 seats, 17.8% 26 seats, 17.8%
Seats won 64 30 26
Seat changeDecrease2.svg4Increase2.svg2Steady2.svg0
Popular vote 729,619 309,355 301,625
Percentage 42.9% 18.2% 17.8%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
  Peter Rochegune Munch.jpg Aksel Larsen c 1959.jpg
Leader Peter Rochegune Munch ? Aksel Larsen
Party Social Liberals Farmers' Communists
Last election 14 seats, 9.2% 5 seats, 3.2% 2 seats, 1.9%
Seats won 14 4 3
Seat changeSteady2.svg0Decrease2.svg1Increase2.svg1
Popular vote 161,834 50,829 40,893
Percentage 9.5% 3.0% 2.4%
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
  Clausen.PNG
Leader Collective leadership Frits Clausen Arne Sørensen
Party Justice National Socialists Danish Unity
Last election 4 seats, 2.5% 0 seats, 1.0%New
Seats won 3 3 1
Seat changeDecrease2.svg1Increase2.svg3Increase2.svg1
Popular vote 33,783 31,032 8,553
Percentage 2.0% 1.8% 0.5%
Prime Minister before election

Thorvald Stauning
Social Democrats

Elected Prime Minister

Thorvald Stauning
Social Democrats

Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 3 April 1939, [1] except in the Faroe Islands where they were held on 19 April. They followed a dissolution of both chambers in order to call a referendum on changing the constitution. The referendum was held on 23 May but failed due to a low voter turnout. The result of the elections was a victory for the Social Democratic Party, which won 64 of the 149 seats. Voter turnout was 79.2% in Denmark proper and 47.8% in the Faroes. [2]

Folketing Parliament of Denmark

The Folketing, also known as the Danish Parliament in English, is the unicameral national parliament (legislature) of Denmark. Established in 1849, until 1953 the Folketing was the lower house of a bicameral parliament, called the Rigsdag; the upper house was Landstinget. It meets in Christiansborg Palace, on the islet of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen.

Denmark constitutional monarchy in Europe

Denmark, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a Nordic country and the southernmost of the Scandinavian nations. Denmark lies southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and is bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark also comprises two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark proper consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand, Funen and the North Jutlandic Island. The islands are characterised by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and a temperate climate. Denmark has a total area of 42,924 km2 (16,573 sq mi), land area of 42,394 km2 (16,368 sq mi), and the total area including Greenland and the Faroe Islands is 2,210,579 km2 (853,509 sq mi), and a population of 5.8 million.

Faroe Islands Autonomus constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark

The Faroe Islands, or the Faeroe Islands—a North Atlantic archipelago located 200 miles (320 km) north-northwest of the United Kingdom and about halfway between Norway and Iceland—are an autonomous country of the Kingdom of Denmark. Total area is about 1,400 square kilometres (540 sq mi) with a population of 50,322 in October 2017.

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Results

Denmark

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Social Democratic Party 729,61942.964–4
Venstre 309,35518.230+2
Conservative People's Party 301,62517.8260
Danish Social Liberal Party 161,8349.5140
Farmers' Party 50,8293.04–1
Communist Party of Denmark 40,8932.43+1
Justice Party of Denmark 33,7832.03–1
National Socialist Workers' Party 31,0321.83+3
National Cooperation17,3501.00New
Schleswig Party 15,0160.90–1
Danish Unity 8,5530.51New
Invalid/blank votes9,667–––
Total1,709,5561001480
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Faroe Islands

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Union Party 2,18034.710
Independent1,84929.400
Social Democratic Party 1,35321.500
Business Party 5889.40New
Self-Government Party 3145.00New
Invalid/blank votes24–––
Total6,30810010
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

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References

  1. ↑ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p524 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p539
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