Norway 1924 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Conservative Party won 43 of 150 seats with 32.5% of the vote; 69.9% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Norway
Held Tuesday 21 October 1924

Result

76 for a majority

Conservative Party43
Liberal Party34
Labour Party24
Centre Party22
Free-minded Liberal Party11
Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway8
Communist Party of Norway6
Labour Democrats / Radical People's Party2

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	%	Votes
Conservative Party	43	32.5	316,846
Liberal Party	34	18.6	180,979
Labour Party	24	18.4	179,567
Centre Party	22	13.5	131,706
Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway	8	8.8	85,743
Communist Party of Norway	6	6.1	59,401
Labour Democrats / Radical People's Party	2	1.8	17,144
Free-minded Liberal Party	11

Votes by party

Conservative Party 316,846
Liberal Party 180,979
Labour Party 179,567
Centre Party 131,706
Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway 85,743
Communist Party of Norway 59,401
Labour Democrats / Radical People's Party 17,144
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

Conservative Party32.5%
Liberal Party18.6%
Labour Party18.4%
Centre Party13.5%
Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway8.8%
Communist Party of Norway6.1%
Labour Democrats / Radical People's Party1.8%

Turnout

69.9% of the 1,412,441 registered voters cast a ballot (987,185 ballots). 973,941 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Conservative Party32.5% of votes28.7% of seats
Liberal Party18.6% of votes22.7% of seats
Labour Party18.4% of votes16.0% of seats
Centre Party13.5% of votes14.7% of seats
Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway8.8% of votes5.3% of seats
Communist Party of Norway6.1% of votes4.0% of seats
Labour Democrats / Radical People's Party1.8% of votes1.3% of seats

Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 7.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.9 by votes and 5.2 by seats; Conservative Party led Liberal Party by 13.9 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal

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