1945 Norwegian parliamentary election
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All 150 seats in the Norwegian Parliament 76 seats were needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 76.4% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 8 October 1945,[1] the first following World War II and the end of the German occupation. The result was a victory for the Labour Party, which won 76 of the 150 seats in the Storting, the first time a party had won a majority since the 1915 elections.
Results
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Labour Party | 609,348 | 41.03 | 76 | +6 | |
Conservative Party | 252,608 | 17.01 | 25 | –11 | |
Liberal Party | 204,852 | 13.79 | 20 | –3 | |
Communist Party | 176,535 | 11.89 | 11 | +11 | |
Farmers' Party | 119,362 | 8.04 | 10 | –8 | |
Christian Democratic Party | 117,813 | 7.93 | 8 | +6 | |
New Norway | 1,845 | 0.12 | 0 | –1 | |
Other parties | 2,809 | 0.19 | 0 | – | |
Wild votes | 53 | 0.00 | – | – | |
Total | 1,485,225 | 100.00 | 150 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 1,485,225 | 99.13 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 12,969 | 0.87 | |||
Total votes | 1,498,194 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 1,961,977 | 76.36 | |||
Source: Nohlen & Stöver |
Seat distribution
Constituency | Total seats | Seats won | |||||
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Ap | H | V | K | B | KrF | ||
Akershus | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
Aust-Agder | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
Bergen | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Buskerud | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
Finnmark | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
Hedmark | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Hordaland | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||
Market towns of Akershus and Østfold | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
Market towns of Buskerud | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
Market towns of Hedmark and Oppland | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
Market towns of Møre og Romsdal | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
Market towns of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
Market towns of Sør-Trøndelag and Nord-Trøndelag | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
Market towns of Telemark and Aust-Agder | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |||
Market towns of Vestfold | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Møre og Romsdal | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||
Nord-Trøndelag | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
Nordland | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
Oppland | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||
Oslo | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||
Østfold | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Rogaland | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sogn og Fjordane | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
Sør-Trøndelag | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Telemark | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
Troms | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||||
Vest-Agder | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
Vestfold | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Total | 150 | 76 | 25 | 20 | 11 | 10 | 8 |
Source: Norges Offisielle Statistikk |
References
- ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1438 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
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