Danish Folketing election, 1918

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22 April 1918

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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 People's	Industry
Last election	8 seats	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

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 180 seats in the Folketing, which had been expanded from 114 to 140 seats. Voter turnout was 75.5%.

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