All 140 seats in the Folketing 71 seats needed for a majority
Party
Leader
%
Seats
+/–
Venstre
Klaus Berntsen
29.41
45
+2
Social Democrats
Thorvald Stauning
28.66
39
+7
Social Liberals
Carl Theodor Zahle
20.67
32
+1
Conservatives
Emil Piper
18.29
22
New
Industry
1.30
1
New
Independents
–
0.40
1
+1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 22 April 1918,[1] the first in which women could vote. The result was a victory for Venstre, which won 45 of the 140 seats in the Folketing, which had been expanded from 114 to 140 seats. Voter turnout was 75.5%.[2]
^Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p524 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^Nohlen & Stöver, p537
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