1945 Norwegian parliamentary election

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1945 Norwegian parliamentary election

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8 October 1945

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All 150 seats in the Norwegian Parliament
76 seats were needed for a majority

Turnout

76.4%

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Einar Gerhardsen	Arthur Nordlie	Jacob Worm-Müller
Party	Labour	Conservative	Liberal
Last election	70 seats, 42.5%	36 seats, 21.3%	23 seats, 16.0%
Seats won	76	25	20
Seat change	6	11	3
Popular vote	609,348	252,608	204,852
Percentage	41.0%	17.0%	13.8%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Adam Egede-Nissen	Nils Trædal	Nils Lavik
Party	Communist	Farmers'	Christian Democratic
Last election	0 seats, 0.3%	18 seats, 11.5%	2 seat, 1.3%
Seats won	11	10	8
Seat change	11	8	6
Popular vote	176,535	119,362	117,813
Percentage	11.9%	8.0%	7.9%

Results by county

Prime Minister before election

Einar Gerhardsen
Labour

Prime Minister after election

Einar Gerhardsen
Labour

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	+/–
	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
		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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