Danish Folketing election, September 1920

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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

Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 21 September 1920, 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.

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