Norwegian parliamentary election, 1969
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The 1969 election proved to be one of the closest ones in Norwegian history. The only leftist party to win seats, the Labour Party
, got 74 seats, while the right-wing parties got 76 seats. When counting the results, people started worrying that the two sides would be evenly split with 75 seats each, which would have caused a problem in determining who would be in government. To prevent this from ever happening, the Storting was expanded with 5 seats for the 1973 election
, and the number of seats in the Storting has been an odd one since.
Norwegian Labour Party
The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....
, got 74 seats, while the right-wing parties got 76 seats. When counting the results, people started worrying that the two sides would be evenly split with 75 seats each, which would have caused a problem in determining who would be in government. To prevent this from ever happening, the Storting was expanded with 5 seats for the 1973 election
Norwegian parliamentary election, 1973
-Results:¹A coalition of the Socialist People's Party , the Communist Party of Norway , and anti-European Economic Community individuals from the Labour Party. The coalition evolved into the Socialist Left Party in 1975....
, and the number of seats in the Storting has been an odd one since.
Results
| Party | Vote (%) | Seats |
|---|---|---|
| Labour Party Norwegian Labour Party The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway.... (Arbeiderpartiet) |
46.5 | 74 |
| Conservative Party Conservative Party of Norway The Conservative Party is a Norwegian political party. The current leader is Erna Solberg. The party was since the 1920s consistently the second largest party in Norway, but has been surpassed by the growth of the Progress Party in the late 1990s and 2000s... (Høyre) |
18.8 | 29 |
| Centre Party Centre Party (Norway) The Centre Party is a centrist and agrarian political party in Norway, founded in 1920. The Centre Party's policy is not based on any of the major ideologies of the 19th and 20th century, but has a focus on maintaining decentralised economic development and political decision-making.From its... (Senterpartiet) |
9.0 | 20 |
| Christian People's Party (Kristelig Folkeparti) | 7.8 | 14 |
| Liberal Party (Venstre) | 9.4 | 13 |
| Socialist People's Party Socialist People's Party (Norway) Socialist People's Party was a splinter group of the Norwegian Labour Party . SF was principally dissatisfied with the pro-NATO/European Economic Community external policies of DNA. A group centered around the magazine Orientering had been expelled from DNA... (Sosialistisk Folkeparti) |
3.4 | 0 |
| Others | 5.0 | 0 |
| Total | 100 | 150 |