Danish Folketing election, 1945

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 People's
Last election	66 seats, 44.5%	28 seats, 18.7%	31 seats, 12.0%
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 on hand")

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]

Results

Denmark

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Social Democratic Party	671,755	32.8	48	–18
Venstre	479,158	23.4	38	+10
Conservative People's Party	373,688	18.2	26	–5
Communist Party of Denmark	255,236	12.5	18	New
Danish Social Liberal Party	167,073	8.1	11	–2
Danish Unity	63,760	3.1	4	+1
Justice Party of Denmark	38,459	1.9	3	+1
Independents	55	0.0	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	6,131	–	–	–
Total	2,055,315	100	148	0
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)	3,990	46.2	1	0
Social Democratic Party-Self-Government Party	2,521	29.2	0	0
Independent (Union Party)	2,127	24.6	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	12	–	–	–
Total	8,650	100	1	0
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p524 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p540

Elections and referendums in Denmark

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Landsting elections	1849 1853 1855 1859 1863 1866 (Jun) 1866 (Oct) 1870 1874 1878 1882 1886 1890 1894 1898 1902 1906 1910 1914 1915 1918 1920 (Aug) 1920 (Oct) 1924 1928 1932 1936 1939 1943 (1945) 1947 1951 1953

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See also: Elections and referendums in the Faroe Islands Elections and referendums in Greenland

Elections and referendums in the Faroe Islands

Løgting elections	1906 1908 1910 1912 1914 1916 1918 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1940 1943 1945 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1980 1984 1988 1990 1994 1998 2002 2004 2008 2011 2015

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Referendums	1907 1946 1973 2009

See also: Elections and referendums in Denmark Elections and referendums in Greenland

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