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Norway 1909 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party won 46 of 123 seats with 30.4% of the vote; 64.5% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats%Votes
Conservative Party4141.5175,388
Liberal Party4630.4128,367
Labour Party1121.691,268
Labour Democrats / Radical People's Party23.715,550
Temperance Party01.25,076
Free-minded Liberal Party23
Votes by party
  • Conservative Party 175,388
  • Liberal Party 128,367
  • Labour Party 91,268
  • Labour Democrats / Radical People's Party 15,550
  • Temperance Party 5,076
  • Free-minded Liberal Party

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.

ParlGov marks results before 1945 as experimental: they may need revision, so we compare them with no other election.

Share of the vote

Turnout

64.5% of the 760,277 registered voters cast a ballot (490,246 ballots). 482,952 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Liberal Party30.4% of votes37.4% of seats
  • Conservative Party41.5% of votes33.3% of seats
  • Labour Party21.6% of votes8.9% of seats
  • Labour Democrats / Radical People's Party3.7% of votes1.6% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 17.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.2 by votes and 3.4 by seats; Conservative Party led Liberal Party by 11.1 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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