Danish Folketing election, April 1920

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26 April 1920

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All 140 seats to the Folketing
71 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	45 seats, 29.4%	39 seats, 28.7	22 seats, 18.3%
Seats won	48	42	28
Seat change	3	3	6
Popular vote	350,563	300,345	201,499
Percentage	34.2%	29.3%	19.7%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Carl Theodor Zahle	?
Party	Social Liberals	Industry
Last election	32 seats, 20.7%	1 seat, 1.3%
Seats won	17	4
Seat change	15	3
Popular vote	122,160	29,464
Percentage	11.9%	2.9%

Prime Minister before election

Michael Pedersen Friis
Independent

Elected Prime Minister

Niels Neergaard
Venstre

Michael Pedersen Friis
Independent

Niels Neergaard
Venstre

Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 26 April 1920, except in the Faroe Islands, where they were held on 20 May.

In what is referred to as Easter Crisis of 1920, on 29 March King Christian X dismissed the government, the Cabinet of Zahle II consisting of members of the Danish Social Liberal Party, replacing it with a caretaker cabinet led by Otto Liebe on 30 March, as he was of the opinion that Central Schleswig should be returned to Denmark regardless of the outcome of the Schleswig Plebiscites. This led to massive protests and was referred to as a coup d'état by the Danish Social Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party. On 5 April 1920 a compromise was reached, the government was replaced with another caretaker cabinet headed by Michael Pedersen Friis and a new election was to be held as soon as possible.

The election campaign was the most aggressive and bitter in Denmark in the 20th century. Voter turnout was 80.6% in Denmark proper and 58.8% in the Faroe Islands.

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