Denmark 1929 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Social Democrats won 61 of 148 seats with 41.8% of the vote; 79.7% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Denmark
Held Tuesday 2 April 1929

Result

75 for a majority

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	%	Votes
Social Democrats	61	41.8	593,191
Venstre	43	28.3	402,121
Conservative People's Party	24	16.5	233,935
Danish Social Liberal Party	16	10.7	151,746
Justice Party of Denmark	3	1.8	25,810
Schleswig Party	1	0.7	9,787
Communist Party of Denmark	0	0.2	3,656

Votes by party

Social Democrats 593,191
Venstre 402,121
Conservative People's Party 233,935
Danish Social Liberal Party 151,746
Justice Party of Denmark 25,810
Schleswig Party 9,787
Communist Party of Denmark 3,656

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

79.7% of the 1,786,092 registered voters cast a ballot (1,423,150 ballots). 1,420,246 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Social Democrats41.8% of votes41.2% of seats
Venstre28.3% of votes29.1% of seats
Conservative People's Party16.5% of votes16.2% of seats
Danish Social Liberal Party10.7% of votes10.8% of seats
Justice Party of Denmark1.8% of votes2.0% of seats
Schleswig Party0.7% of votes0.7% of seats

Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 0.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.4 by votes and 3.4 by seats; Social Democrats led Venstre by 13.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal

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