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Denmark Folketing election 1873

Denmark elections · 1873-11-14 · held

101 seats allocated in the transcribed result table.

Results: final · partial coverage · Mainland Denmark valid votes where available; separate North Atlantic counts are outside this table

Turnout: 51.7%

Denmark Folketing election 1873 — recorded results
Party / candidateVotesVote shareSeatsElectoral votes
Højre Coalition——51—
United Left——50—

Seats are the election result for the listed Danish party or historical grouping, not a later parliamentary membership snapshot. Where the source separates Denmark proper from the Faroe Islands and Greenland, only the mainland count is transcribed here; vote shares and turnout use that same electorate. Separate territorial results are not silently combined with mainland percentages. Missing vote counts remain blank, including elections with uncontested constituencies. Historical group and alliance labels are preserved without dividing shared lists into invented party votes. Colours are a display palette; ideology labels describe broad party traditions. Coverage is partial. The franchise was restricted and changed over time; reported turnout is a share of the then-eligible electorate, not the adult population. Uncontested returns can limit historical vote and turnout comparability. Venstre (Left grouping) denotes the historical Left factions and is not retroactively called the Venstre Reform Party, which was established in 1895.

Sources & further reading

Historical result table and cited electoral bibliography

Statistics Denmark: historical election publication archive