Norwegian parliamentary election, 1918

1918

All 126 seats in the Norwegian Parliament
64 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Gunnar Knudsen	Jens Bratlie	Kyrre Grepp
Party	Liberal	Conservative	Labour
Last election	74 seats, 33.1%	20 seats, 29.0%	19 seats, 32.1%
Seats won	51	40	18
Seat change	23	20	1
Popular vote	187,657	201,325 (H+FV)	209,560
Percentage	28.3%	30.4% (H+FV)	31.6%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Bernt Holtsmark	?	?
Party	Free-minded	Agrarian	Labour Democrats
Last election	1 seat with H	1 seat, 1.0%	6 seats with V
Seats won	10	3	3
Seat change	9	2	3
Popular vote	Alliance with H	30,925	21,980
Percentage	—	4.7%	3.3%

Prime Minister before election

Gunnar Knudsen
Liberal

Prime Minister-designate

Gunnar Knudsen
Liberal

Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 21 October 1918, with a second round between 4 and 11 November.^[1] The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 51 of the 123 seats in the Storting. Despite receiving the most votes, the Labour Party won just 18 seats, a loss of one seat compared with the 1915 elections.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Labour Party	209,560	31.6	18	–1
Conservative Party	201,325	30.4	40	+20
Free-minded Liberal Party	201,325	30.4	10	+9
Liberal Party	187,657	28.3	51	–23
Agrarian Association	30,925	4.7	3	+2
Labour Democrats	21,980	3.3	3	–3
Other parties and independents^[a]	11,074	1.7	1	–1
Invalid/blank votes	12,856	–	–	–
Total	675,377	100	126	+3
Registered voters/turnout	1,186,602	60.5	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

^a The other candidates included Women's electors from Oslo and priest Alfred Eiken.^[2]

References

↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1438 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p1449

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