After protests, the King agreed to install a caretaker government who could hold a general election, and no Danish monarch has since interfered in politics.

Danish claims to the region persisted to the end of World War I, at which time the defeat of the Germans made it possible to resolve the dispute.

Many Danish nationalists felt that Central Schleswig should be returned to Denmark regardless of the plebiscite's results, generally motivated by a desire to see Germany permanently weakened in the future.

Subsequently, Christian dismissed the rest of the government and replaced it with a de facto conservative caretaker cabinet under Otto Liebe.

Faced with the potential overthrow of the Danish crown, Christian backed down and dismissed his own government, installing as a compromise cabinet under Michael Pedersen Friis until elections could be held later that year.