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Norway 1969 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 74 of 150 seats with 46.5% of the vote; 83.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.6 points on 1965.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Labour Party74+646.5+3.41,004,348
Conservative Party29−218.8−1.5406,209
Liberal Party13−59.4−0.8202,553
Centre Party20+29.0−0.8194,128
Christian Democratic Party14+18.7+0.6169,303
Socialist People's Party0−23.4−2.673,284
Communist Party of Norway001.0−0.421,517

± is the change against the Norway 1965 parliamentary election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Labour Party 1,004,348
  • Conservative Party 406,209
  • Liberal Party 202,553
  • Centre Party 194,128
  • Christian Democratic Party 169,303
  • Socialist People's Party 73,284
  • Communist Party of Norway 21,517

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

83.8% of the 2,579,566 registered voters cast a ballot (2,162,596 ballots), down 1.6 points on 1965. 2,158,712 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Labour Party46.5% of votes49.3% of seats
  • Conservative Party18.8% of votes19.3% of seats
  • Centre Party9.0% of votes13.3% of seats
  • Christian Democratic Party8.7% of votes9.3% of seats
  • Liberal Party9.4% of votes8.7% of seats
  • Socialist People's Party3.4% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.5 (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 27.7 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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