Folk election 1947

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A total of 150 seats
  • Communists (K): 9
  • Social Democrats (A): 57
  • Social Liberals (B): 10
  • Covenant of Justice (E): 6
  • Faroe Islands: 2
  • Liberal Party (V): 49
  • Conservatives (C): 17

The 1947 Folketing election was the 42nd election to the Danish Folketing Parliament . It took place on October 28, 1947, with the exception of the Faroe Islands , where elections were not held until February 18, 1948. In the election, 150 MPs, 148 from the mainland and 2 from the Faroe Islands, were elected to the Folketing. The election winners were the Social Democrats with 57 seats. The turnout was 85.8% in Denmark and 60.1% in the Faroe Islands.

Result

Political party be right percent Mandates +/-
Social democrats 834.089 40.0% 57 +9
liberal 574,895 27.6% 49 +8
conservative 259,324 12.4% 17th −9
Radical Venstre 144.206 6.9% 10 −1
Communists 141.094 6.8% 9 −9
Retsforbundet 94,570 4.5% 6th +3
Capital Liberals 45,829 2.2% 3 New
Dansk Samling 24,747 1.2% 0 −4
Schleswig party 7,464 0.4% 0 New
Independent 3,775 0.2% 0 ± 0
invalid votes 4,874 --- --- ---
All in all 2,089,015 100 148 ± 0

Regarding capital city liberals: The Venstre in Copenhagen stood up as an independent party to take advantage of the right to vote to win compensation mandates. Because of the election, the other parties pushed for a change in the electoral law that was enforced in 1948.

Faroe Islands

Political party be right percent Mandates +/-
People's Party 4.135 42.7% 1 ± 0
Unionsten 2,754 28.4% 1 +1
Social democrats 1,990 20.5% 0 ± 0
Self-management 809 8.4% 0 ± 0
invalid votes 34 --- - ---
All in all 9,722 100% 2 +1

Parties and candidates

As in the previous Folketing election in 1945 , the Social Democrats were led by Hans Hedtoft as the top candidate. This time he was also elected as Prime Minister on November 13, 1947 of the Danish government Hedtoft I , which ruled until October 30, 1950.

The Liberals went into the elections with Knud Kristensen as the top candidate, but this time he was not elected as Prime Minister.

The Conservatives started the race with former Defense Minister Ole Bjørn Kraft at their head. They lost 9 seats compared to the previous election, which with the communists is the biggest loss of seats.

The communists entered the race with Aksel Larsen as the top candidate. They lost 9 seats to the previous election, in which they achieved their - so far - best election result.

The Retsforbundet gained 3 seats and thus had 6 seats in the newly elected Folketing, making it the smallest parliamentary group.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook , p. 524 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p. 540
  3. ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p. 506