Norway elects its legislature on a national level. The Storting has 165 members, elected for a four year term (during which it may not be dissolved) by the proportional representation in multi-seat constituencies. From 2005 the Storting will have 169 members. The Storting is for legislative cases divided in the Lagting (41 members) and the Odelsting (124 members). Chamber of the Estates-General, the Dutch legislature. ... This article is part of the Politics of Norway series. ... Proportional representation (PR) is any election system which ensures a proportionally representative result of a democratic election, x% of votes should be represented by x% in the democratic institutions, parliament or congress. ... A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ...

Norway has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments. A multi-party system is a type of party system. ... A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues. ... A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues. ... A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a cabinet in parliamentary government in which several parties cooperate. ...

In Norway, elections are held every second year, alternating between elections for the Parliament and local elections, both of which are held on a 4-yearly basis.

Suffrage is universal from the year a person turns 18 years old, even if the person turns 18 later in the year the election is held. Only Norwegian citizens can vote in the Parliamentary elections, but foreigners who have lived in Norway for three years continuously can vote in the local elections. Citizenship is membership in a political community (originally a city but now usually a state), and carries with it rights to political participation; a person having such membership is a citizen. ...

Women's suffrage was adopted in 1913. The movement for womens suffrage, led by suffragists (commonly called suffragettes), was a social, economic and political reform movement aimed at extending the suffrage (the right to vote) to women, advocating equal suffrage (abolition of graded votes) rather than universal suffrage (abolition of all discrimination, for example due to...

The last election was the 2005 parliamentary election, on 12 September this year. This article is part of the Politics of Norway series. ... September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ...

Parliamentary elections

Norway is divided into 19 counties, and each county is a constituency in the election. Each county elects a pre-calculated number of seats in the Parliament (Stortinget) based on the population and geographical area of the county, where each inhabitant scores one point and each square kilometer scores 1.8 points. This calculation is done every eight years. This practice has been criticised because in some larger counties with sparse population a single vote counts more than in other more densely populated counties. Others claim that counties with a scattered and sparse population and who are situated far away from the central administration in Oslo should have a stronger representation in the Parliament. In the more recent elections a vote in Finnmark county has counted twice as much as in Akershus county or Oslo county. A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... This article is part of the Politics of Norway series. ... County Oslo NO-03 Landscape Viken Municipality NO-0301 Administrative centre Oslo Mayor (2004) Per Ditlev-Simonsen (H) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 224 454 km² 426 km² 0. ... Finnmark (Sami Finnmárku) is a county in the extreme north of Norway, bordering Troms, Finland (Lapland), and Russia (Murmansk Oblast). ... County NO-02 Region Østlandet Administrative centre Oslo County mayor Hildur Horn Øien (KrF) Area  - Total  - Percentage Ranked 16 4,918 km² 1. ... County Oslo NO-03 Landscape Viken Municipality NO-0301 Administrative centre Oslo Mayor (2004) Per Ditlev-Simonsen (H) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 224 454 km² 426 km² 0. ...

After the votes are counted and the members of the Parliament are designated their respective seats of their county, 19 levelling seats, one in each county, are divided to parties who got fewer seats than their election result percentage would suggest. Only parties with more than 4% of the votes on a national basis are entitled to levelling seats. The practice of levelling seats was adopted in 1989.

For the elections in 2005 and 2009 the distribution of seats is(numbers are inclusive levelling seats):

• Østfold 9
• Akershus 16
• Oslo 17
• Hedmark 8
• Oppland 7
• Buskerud 9
• Vestfold 7
• Telemark 6
• Aust-Agder 4
• Vest-Agder 6
• Rogaland 13
• Hordaland 15
• Sogn og Fjordane 5
• Møre og Romsdal 9
• Sør-Trøndelag 10
• Nord-Trøndelag 6
• Nordland 10
• Troms 7
• Finnmark 5
• Total 169

Østfold is a county in southeastern Norway, bordering Akershus and southwestern Sweden (Västra Götaland County and Värmland), while Vestfold is on the other side of the bay. ... County NO-02 Region Østlandet Administrative centre Oslo County mayor Hildur Horn Øien (KrF) Area  - Total  - Percentage Ranked 16 4,918 km² 1. ... County Oslo NO-03 Landscape Viken Municipality NO-0301 Administrative centre Oslo Mayor (2004) Per Ditlev-Simonsen (H) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 224 454 km² 426 km² 0. ... Hedmark is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Akershus. ... Oppland is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. ... Buskerud is a county in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark, and Vestfold. ... Vestfold is a county in Norway, bordering Buskerud and Telemark. ... Telemark is a county in Norway, bordering Vestfold, Buskerud, Hordaland, Rogaland and Aust-Agder. ... County NO-09 Region Sørlandet Administrative centre Arendal County mayor Oddvar Skaiaa Area  - Total  - Percentage Ranked 14 9,157 km² 2. ... County NO-10 Region Sørlandet Administrative centre Kristiansand County mayor Thore Westermoen Area  - Total  - Percentage Ranked 15 7,276 km² 2. ... Rogaland is a county in Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. ... Hordaland is a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark and Rogaland. ... County NO-14 Region Vestlandet Administrative centre Leikanger County mayor Nils R. Sandal Area  - Total  - Percentage Ranked 8 18,623 km² 5. ... Møre og Romsdal is a county in the northernmost part of the Vestlandet region of Norway, and borders the counties of Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Sogn og Fjordane. ... Sør-Trøndelag is a county in the area Trøndelag in Norway, bordering Nord-Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Oppland and Hedmark. ... County NO-17 Region Trøndelag Administrative centre Steinkjer County mayor Inger Lise Gjørv Area  - Total  - Percentage Ranked 6 22,412 km² 6. ... Nordland is a county in Norway, bordering Troms and Nord-Trøndelag. ... Troms is a county in northern Norway, bordering Finnmark and Nordland. ... Finnmark (Sami Finnmárku) is a county in the extreme north of Norway, bordering Troms, Finland (Lapland), and Russia (Murmansk Oblast). ...

Results

2005 Parliamentary election

	Summary of the 12 September 2005 Storting election results	Votes	%	+/-	Seats	+/-
	Norwegian Labour Party (Det norske Arbeiderpartiet)	862,757	32.7	+8.4	61	+18
	Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet)	582,284	22.1	+7.4	38	+12
	Conservative Party (Høyre)	372,008	14.1	−7.1	23	−15
	Socialist Left Party (Sosialistisk Venstreparti)	233,069	8.8	−3.7	15	−8
	Christian People's Party (Kristelig Folkeparti)	178,889	6.8	−5.6	11	−11
	Centre Party (Senterpartiet)	171,124	6.5	+0.9	11	+1
	Liberal Party (Venstre)	156,081	5.9	+2.0	10	+8
	Red Electoral Alliance (Rød Valgallianse)	32,365	1.2	0.0	0	0
	Coastal Party (Kystpartiet)	21,946	0.8	−0.9	0	−1
	Pensioners' Party (Pensjonistpartiet)	13,559	0.5		0	0
	Christian Unity Party (Kristent Samlingsparti)	3,865	0.1		0	0
	Environment Party The Greens (Miljøpartiet De Grønne)	3,652	0.1		0	0
	The Democrats (Demokratene)	2,706	0.1		0	0
	Abortion Opponents' List (Abortmostandernes Liste)	1,932	0.1		0	0
	Communist Party of Norway (Norges Kommunistiske Parti)	1,066	0.0		0	0
	Reform Party (Reformpartiet)	727	0.0		0	0
	Sami People Party (Sámeálbmot bellodat, Samefolkets Parti)	660	0.0		0	0
	Liberal People's Party (Det Liberale Folkeparti)	213	0.0		0	0
	Norwegian Republican Alliance (Norsk Republikansk Allianse)	94	0.0		0	0
	Beer Unity Party (Pilsens Samlingsparti)	65	0.0		0	0
	Society Party (Norway) (Samfunnspartiet)	43	0.0		0	0
Total		2,639,105	100%		169

More info: Norwegian parliamentary election, 2005

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Previous results

• Norwegian parliamentary election, 1945
• Norwegian parliamentary election, 1949
• Norwegian parliamentary election, 1953
• Norwegian parliamentary election, 1957
• Norwegian parliamentary election, 1961
• Norwegian parliamentary election, 1965
• Norwegian parliamentary election, 1969
• Norwegian parliamentary election, 1973
• Norwegian parliamentary election, 1977
• Norwegian parliamentary election, 1981
• Norwegian parliamentary election, 1985
• Norwegian parliamentary election, 1989
• Norwegian parliamentary election, 1993
• Norwegian parliamentary election, 1997
• Norwegian parliamentary election, 2001

Results Categories: Elections in Norway | 1945 elections ... Results Categories: Elections in Norway | 1949 elections ... Results Categories: Elections in Norway | 1953 elections ... Results Categories: Elections in Norway | 1957 elections ... Results Categories: Elections in Norway | 1961 elections ... Results Categories: Elections in Norway | 1965 elections ... The 1969 election proved to be one of the closest ones in Norwegian history. ... Results ¹A coalition of some members from the Socialist Peoples Party (Sosialistisk Folkeparti), The Communist Party of Norway (Norges Kommunistiske Parti), and the Labour Party, which became the Socialist Left Party (Sosialistisk Venstreparti) in 1975. ... Results Categories: Elections in Norway | 1977 elections ... Results Categories: Elections in Norway | 1981 elections ... A general election to the Storting, the parliament of Norway, was held on 9 September 1985. ... A general election to the Storting, the parliament of Norway, was held on 11 September 1989. ... Results of the general election to the Storting, the parliament of Norway, held on September 13, 1993. ... A general election to the Storting, the parliament of Norway, was held on 15 September 1997. ... A general election to the Storting, the parliament of Norway, was held on 10 September 2001. ...

The system

Norway uses the same system in both local and national elections when it comes to distributing mandates. This method is called St. Laguë's modified method and the underlying principle is that the number of mandates a party gets in the Storting should be as close to the relative number of votes the party got in the election(the principle of mathematical fairness). This article is part of the Politics of Norway series. ...

There are several exceptions to the above-mentioned principle:

1. Levelling seats: These mandates exist to adjust what was thought to be unfair: A party could theoretically get a number of votes nation-wide, but not a high enough count in any single constituency to get a mandate.
2. The rural additions: Sparsely populated constituencies get more mandates than they should be getting. This is to maintain a representative feeling in the national assembly and to prevent urban votes overrunning the rural votes, but has lately been heavily criticised for being undemocratic and not mathematically fair.
3. The executive addition: The largest party in the national assembly is given a few extra votes to make sure it can form a majority cabinet or enter a coalition which has a majority behind it. Arbeiderpartiet always gets this addition as it has been Norway's single largest party since 1935.
4. Many parties, few mandates: In every one of the 19 constituencies, all of the 7 parties currently represented in the Storting (SV, Ap, V, Sp, KrF, H, FrP) run lists. In addition to these, RV and many other parties(a total of 21 in 2005) run lists. These parties all compete for the same mandates, and in constituencies with few mandates, only a few of them get in. This is partially offset by levelling seats.

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Referenda

• Norwegian referendum on the dissolution of the union between Sweden and Norway, 1905
• Norwegian referendum on Prince Charles of Denmark as Norwegian King, 1905
• Norwegian Prohibition referendum, 1919
• Norwegian Continued Prohibition referendum, 1926
• Norwegian EC referendum, 1972
• Norwegian EU referendum, 1994

A referendum on whether Norway should introduce Prohibition was held on October 5 and 6, 1919. ... A consultative and facultative referendum on whether Norway should continue prohibition was held on October 18, 1926. ... A referendum on whether Norway should join the European Community was held on September 25, 1972. ... A referendum on whether Norway should join the European Union was held on November 28, 1994. ...

Local elections

The local elections are two separate elections held at the same time. The first is the county municipality election, which elects politicians to the County Council. Second is the municipality election, which elects politicians to the municipality council.

External links

• Electionworld
• Adam Carr's Election Archive
• political parties and elections
• The official government summary of the Norwegian electoral system