1945 Danish Folketing election

Folketing elections were held alongside Landsting elections in Denmark on 30 October 1945,[1] except in the Faroe Islands where they were held on 20 November. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 48 of the 149 seats. Voter turnout was 86.3% in Denmark proper and 57.3% in the Faroes.[2]

1945 Danish Folketing election
30 October 1945
All 149 seats to the Folketing
75 seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Hans Hedtoft Knud Kristensen Christmas Møller
Party Social Democrats Venstre Conservative
Last election 66 seats, 44.5% 28 seats, 18.7% 31 seats, 21.0%
Seats won 48 38 26
Seat change 18 10 5
Popular vote 671,755 479,158 373,688
Percentage 32.8% 23.4% 18.2%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Aksel Larsen Jørgen Jørgensen Arne Sørensen
Party Communists Social Liberals Danish Unity
Last election banned 13 seats, 8.7% 3 seats, 2.2%
Seats won 18 11 4
Seat change 18 2 1
Popular vote 255,236 167,073 63,760
Percentage 12.5% 8.1% 3.1%
  Seventh party
 
Leader Oluf Pedersen
Party Justice
Last election 2 seats, 1.6%
Seats won 3
Seat change 1
Popular vote 38,459
Percentage 1.9%
Prime Minister before election

Vilhelm Buhl
Social Democrats

 Prime Minister-elect

Knud Kristensen
Venstre

Venstre 1945 election material ("Venstre has good cards to hand")

Results

Denmark
Party Votes % Seats +/–
Social Democratic Party671,75532.848–18
Venstre479,15823.438+10
Conservative People's Party373,68818.226–5
Communist Party of Denmark255,23612.518New
Danish Social Liberal Party167,0738.111–2
Danish Unity63,7603.14+1
Justice Party of Denmark38,4591.93+1
Independents550.000
Invalid/blank votes6,131–––
Total2,055,3151001480
Source: Nohlen & Stöver
Popular vote
A
 
 32.78%
D
 
 23.38%
C
 
 18.24%
K
 
 12.46%
B
 
 8.15%
R
 
 3.11%
E
 
 1.88%
Others
 
 0.00%

Faroe Islands
Party Votes % Seats +/–
Independent (People's Party)3,99046.210
Social Democratic Party-Self-Government Party2,52129.200
Independent (Union Party)2,12724.600
Invalid/blank votes12–––
Total8,65010010
Source: Nohlen & Stöver
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References
  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p524 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p540
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