1947 Danish Landsting election

Landsting elections were held in Denmark in March and April 1947. The public elected members of the electoral college on 1 April, who in turn elected 29 members of the Landsting on 11 April. A further 19 members were elected by outgoing parliament on 7 March,^[1] while a Faroese member was elected by the Løgting on 26 March.^[2]

Of the seven constituencies the seats representing constituencies number one (Copenhagen), four (Odense and Svendborg County), six (Hjørring, Aalborg, Thisted, Viborg and Randers County) and seven (the Faroe Islands) were up for election.

John Christmas Møller attributed the decline of his party—the Conservative People's Party—to his position regarding Southern Schleswig and resigned as parliamentary group leader as a consequence.^[1]

Results

Party		Votes	%	Electors	Seats
					People's	Parliament	Not up	Total	+/–
	Social Democratic Party	303,220	42.50	882	12	9	12	33	–1
	Venstre	165,088	23.14	553	9	5	7	21	+2
	Conservative People's Party	103,019	14.44	287	4	3	6	13	–1
	Communist Party of Denmark	71,911	10.08	177	1	0	0	1	+1
	Danish Social Liberal Party	43,307	6.07	117	2	2	3	7	–1
	Justice Party of Denmark	18,352	2.57	28	0	0	0	0	0
	Danish Unity	8,554	1.20	6	0	0	0	0	0
Faroese representative				–	0	0	0	1	0
Total		713,451	100.00	2,050	28	19	28	76	0
Valid votes		713,451	99.78
Invalid/blank votes		1,567	0.22
Total votes		715,018	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		903,422	79.15
Source: Svanstrup,[1] Thorborg,[2] Møller[3]

References

1. Stavnstrup, P. (1951). "Rigsdagen 1940–49", in Bomholt, J., Fabricius, K., Hjelholt, H., Mackeprang, M. & Møller, A. (eds.): Den Danske Rigsdag 1849–1949 bind II — Rigsdagens histore 1866–1949 (in Danish). Copenhagen: J. H. Schultz Forlag, p. 696.
2. Thorborg, Johs. (ed.) (1948). Rigsdagsaarbog 1946–47 (in Danish). Copenhagen: J. H. Schultz Forlag, pp. 41–51
3. Møller, Poul (1950). Politisk Haandbog. En Samling konkrete Oplysninger (in Danish). Copenhagen: H. Hagerup, pp. 309–11.