Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 11 September 1961.[1] The result was a victory for the Labour Party, which won 74 of the 150 seats in the Storting. Although it lost the absolute majority it had held since 1945, the Labour Party was able to continue in government.
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All 150 seats in the Storting 76 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
Labour Party | 860,526 | 46.76 | 74 | –4 | |
Conservative Party | 354,369 | 19.26 | 28 | 0 | |
Christian Democratic Party | 171,451 | 9.32 | 14 | +3 | |
Liberal Party | 132,429 | 7.20 | 11 | –1 | |
Centre Party | 125,643 | 6.83 | 11 | +1 | |
Centrists–Liberals[a] | 75,822 | 4.12 | 8 | – | |
Communist Party | 53,678 | 2.92 | 0 | –1 | |
Socialist People's Party | 43,996 | 2.39 | 2 | New | |
Christians–Conservatives[b] | 19,409 | 1.05 | 2 | – | |
Free Left Electorate's List | 2,360 | 0.13 | 0 | New | |
Norwegian Social Democratic Party | 478 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | |
Wild votes | 64 | 0.00 | – | – | |
Total | 1,840,225 | 100.00 | 150 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 1,840,225 | 99.44 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 10,323 | 0.56 | |||
Total votes | 1,850,548 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 2,340,495 | 79.07 | |||
Source: Nohlen & Stöver |
Seat distribution
editConstituency | Total seats | Seats won | |||||
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Ap | H | Sp | KrF | V | SF | ||
Akershus | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||
Aust-Agder | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
Bergen | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Buskerud | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||
Finnmark | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||
Hedmark | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | |||
Hordaland | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
Møre og Romsdal | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
Nord-Trøndelag | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||
Nordland | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
Oppland | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |||
Oslo | 13 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | ||
Østfold | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
Rogaland | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
Sogn og Fjordane | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sør-Trøndelag | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Telemark | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Troms | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||
Vest-Agder | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Vestfold | 7 | 4 | 3 | ||||
Total | 150 | 74 | 29 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 2 |
Source: Norges Offisielle Statistikk |
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1438 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ^ a b Nohlen & Stöver, p1459
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