1918 Danish Folketing election
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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]
Electoral system
The Folketing was elected by rural–urban proportional representation. Copenhagen had 24 members elected by party-list proportional representation using the d'Hondt system, while in the rest of the country 93 members (42 in the Danish Islands and 51 in Jutland) were elected in single-member constituencies using first-past-the-post voting. There were a further 23 leveling seats to make the results more proportional.[3]
Of the 23 leveling seats, twenty (nine in the islands and eleven in Jutland) were allocated on a regional basis, and three (one in the islands and two in Jutland) were allocated based on the nationwide vote (including Copenhagen).[3] The allocation of candidates to leveling seats was based on a best-loser rule, using a form of Scorporo; in each single-member constituency a Hare quota of votes for the appropriate region was subtracted from the winner's votes and the remainders were pooled at a county level. The candidates with the highest proportion of the votes relative to the region's Hare quota were allocated the leveling seats.[3]
The 1918 elections were the only ones in Danish history to feature this mixed system.[4][5] Future elections would be entirely using proportional representation with the single-member districts not affecting the party-level results.
Results
References
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- ↑ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p524 Template:ISBN
- ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p537
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- ↑ The Parliamentary Electoral System in Denmark Template:Webarchive Folketing
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