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Norway 1918 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party won 51 of 126 seats with 28.3% of the vote; 60.5% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats%Votes
Labour Party1831.6209,560
Conservative Party4030.4201,325
Liberal Party5128.3187,657
Centre Party34.730,925
Labour Democrats / Radical People's Party33.321,980
Independents11.711,074
Free-minded Liberal Party10
Votes by party
  • Labour Party 209,560
  • Conservative Party 201,325
  • Liberal Party 187,657
  • Centre Party 30,925
  • Labour Democrats / Radical People's Party 21,980
  • Independents 11,074
  • 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

60.5% of the 1,186,602 registered voters cast a ballot (717,446 ballots). 704,590 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Liberal Party28.3% of votes40.5% of seats
  • Conservative Party30.4% of votes31.7% of seats
  • Labour Party31.6% of votes14.3% of seats
  • Centre Party4.7% of votes2.4% of seats
  • Labour Democrats / Radical People's Party3.3% of votes2.4% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 16.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.6 by votes and 3.4 by seats; Labour Party led Conservative Party by 1.2 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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