1926 Danish Folketing election

Election for the lower house of Danish Parliament Kingdom of Denmark 1924 1929 All 149 seats in the Folketing 75 2 December 1926 Elected in Denmark Thorvald Stauning Social Democrats (Denmark) 55 53 37.16 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal Venstre (Denmark) 44 46 28.27 Emil Piper Conservative People's Party (Denmark) 28 30 20.62 Carl Theodor Zahle Danish Social Liberal Party 20 16 11.28 Collective leadership Justice Party of Denmark 0 2 1.31 Johannes Schmidt-Wodder Schleswig Party 1 1 0.78 Elected in the Faroe Islands Andrass Samuelsen Union Party (Faroe Islands) 1 1 63.05 Prime Minister Thorvald Stauning Social Democrats (Denmark) Thomas Madsen-Mygdal Venstre (Denmark) Folketing1926.svg Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 2 December 1926,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p524 978-3-8329-5609-7 except in the Faroe Islands where they were held on 20 December. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 53 of the 149 seats. Voter turnout was 77.0% in Denmark proper and 40.2% in the Faroes.Nohlen & Stöver, p538 It was the first election after which radio was used to broadcast the results to the public.The 1926 election - The first live broadcast election meeting https://www.kb.dk/en/inspiration/1926-election-first-live-broadcast-election-meeting 2025-01-09 Royal Danish Library en-GB Results File:Denmark Parliament 1926.svg Denmark Social Democratic Party 497106 53 –2 Venstre 378137 46 +2 Conservative People's Party 275793 30 +2 Danish Social Liberal Party 150931 16 –4 Justice Party of Denmark 17463 2 +2 Schleswig Party 10422 1 0 Communist Party of Denmark 5678 0 0 Independence Party 2117 0 New 3579 0 1742604 y Faroe Islands Union Party–Venstre 2600 1 0 Social Democratic Party 1019 0 New Independents 505 0 New 31 0 10325 Nohlen & Stöver References Folketing Denmark Category:Folketing elections