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Norway 1961 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 74 of 150 seats with 46.8% of the vote; 79.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.7 points on 1957.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Labour Party74−446.8−1.5860,526
Conservative Party29019.3+2.5354,369
Christian Democratic Party15+39.3−0.9171,451
Liberal Party14−18.2−1.4132,429
Centre Party16+16.8−2.8125,643
Communist Party of Norway0−12.9−0.553,678
Socialist People's Party22.443,996

± is the change against the Norway 1957 parliamentary election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Labour Party 860,526
  • Conservative Party 354,369
  • Christian Democratic Party 171,451
  • Liberal Party 132,429
  • Centre Party 125,643
  • Communist Party of Norway 53,678
  • Socialist People's Party 43,996

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.

Share of the vote

Turnout

79.1% of the 2,340,495 registered voters cast a ballot (1,850,548 ballots), up 0.7 points on 1957. 1,840,225 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Labour Party46.8% of votes49.3% of seats
  • Conservative Party19.3% of votes19.3% of seats
  • Centre Party6.8% of votes10.7% of seats
  • Christian Democratic Party9.3% of votes10.0% of seats
  • Liberal Party8.2% of votes9.3% of seats
  • Socialist People's Party2.4% of votes1.3% of seats
  • Communist Party of Norway2.9% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.6 by votes and 3.2 by seats; Labour Party led Conservative Party by 27.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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