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Norway 1912 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party won 70 of 123 seats with 40.0% of the vote; 65.9% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats%Votes
Liberal Party7040.0195,526
Conservative Party2033.2162,074
Labour Party2326.3128,455
Largest party without seats00.21,033
Labour Democrats / Radical People's Party6
Free-minded Liberal Party4
Votes by party
  • Liberal Party 195,526
  • Conservative Party 162,074
  • Labour Party 128,455
  • Largest party without seats 1,033
  • Labour Democrats / Radical People's Party
  • 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

65.9% of the 809,582 registered voters cast a ballot (533,182 ballots). 526,928 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Liberal Party40.0% of votes56.9% of seats
  • Labour Party26.3% of votes18.7% of seats
  • Conservative Party33.2% of votes16.3% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 18.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.9 by votes and 2.6 by seats; Liberal Party led Conservative Party by 6.8 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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