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Denmark 1901 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Venstre won 76 of 114 seats with 42.9% of the vote; 56.5% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats%Votes
Venstre7642.996,481
Conservative People's Party824.054,103
Social Democrats1417.138,398
Moderate Venstre1611.426,993
Votes by party
  • Venstre 96,481
  • Conservative People's Party 54,103
  • Social Democrats 38,398
  • Moderate Venstre 26,993

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.

ParlGov marks results before 1945 as experimental: they may need revision, so we compare them with no other election.

Share of the vote

Turnout

56.5% of the 404,271 registered voters cast a ballot (228,576 ballots). 225,066 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Venstre42.9% of votes66.7% of seats
  • Moderate Venstre11.4% of votes14.0% of seats
  • Social Democrats17.1% of votes12.3% of seats
  • Conservative People's Party24.0% of votes7.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 21.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.5 by votes and 2.1 by seats; Venstre led Conservative People's Party by 18.8 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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