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Denmark September 1920 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Venstre won 51 of 148 seats with 34.0% of the vote; 77.0% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats%Votes
Venstre5134.0411,661
Social Democrats4832.2389,653
Conservative People's Party2717.9216,733
Danish Social Liberal Party1812.1147,120
Industry Party32.327,403
Schleswig Party10.67,505
Largest party without seats00.56,460
Votes by party
  • Venstre 411,661
  • Social Democrats 389,653
  • Conservative People's Party 216,733
  • Danish Social Liberal Party 147,120
  • Industry Party 27,403
  • Schleswig Party 7,505
  • Largest party without seats 6,460

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

77.0% of the 1,576,716 registered voters cast a ballot (1,214,368 ballots). 1,211,695 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Venstre34.0% of votes34.5% of seats
  • Social Democrats32.2% of votes32.4% of seats
  • Conservative People's Party17.9% of votes18.2% of seats
  • Danish Social Liberal Party12.1% of votes12.2% of seats
  • Industry Party2.3% of votes2.0% of seats
  • Schleswig Party0.6% of votes0.7% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 0.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.8 by votes and 3.7 by seats; Venstre led Social Democrats by 1.8 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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