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Norway 1930 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 47 of 150 seats with 31.4% of the vote; 77.6% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats%Votes
Labour Party4731.4374,854
Conservative Party3927.4327,731
Liberal Party3320.2241,355
Centre Party2515.9190,220
Free-minded Liberal Party32.631,003
Communist Party of Norway01.720,351
Labour Democrats / Radical People's Party10.89,228
Other parties (seats only)2
Votes by party
  • Labour Party 374,854
  • Conservative Party 327,731
  • Liberal Party 241,355
  • Centre Party 190,220
  • Free-minded Liberal Party 31,003
  • Communist Party of Norway 20,351
  • Labour Democrats / Radical People's Party 9,228
  • Other parties (seats only)

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

77.6% of the 1,550,077 registered voters cast a ballot (1,202,101 ballots). 1,194,755 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Labour Party31.4% of votes31.3% of seats
  • Conservative Party27.4% of votes26.0% of seats
  • Liberal Party20.2% of votes22.0% of seats
  • Centre Party15.9% of votes16.7% of seats
  • Free-minded Liberal Party2.6% of votes2.0% of seats
  • Labour Democrats / Radical People's Party0.8% of votes0.7% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.2 by votes and 4.1 by seats; Labour Party led Conservative Party by 3.9 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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