Norway 1973 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 62 of 155 seats with 35.3% of the vote; 80.2% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 3.6 points on 1969.
- Norway
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | 62 | −12 | 35.3 | −11.2 | 759,499 |
| Conservative Party | 29 | 0 | 17.4 | −1.4 | 370,370 |
| Christian Democratic Party | 20 | +6 | 12.2 | +3.5 | 255,456 |
| Socialist Left Partywith Socialist People's Party and Communist Party of Norway | 16 | 11.2 | 241,851 | ||
| Centre Party | 21 | +1 | 11.0 | +2.0 | 146,312 |
| Progress Party | 4 | 5.0 | 107,784 | ||
| Liberal People's Party | 1 | 3.4 | 73,854 | ||
| Liberal Party | 2 | −11 | 3.5 | −5.9 | 49,668 |
| Red Electoral Alliance | 0 | 0.4 | 9,360 |
± is the change against the Norway 1969 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Labour Party 759,499
- Conservative Party 370,370
- Christian Democratic Party 255,456
- Socialist Left Party 241,851
- Centre Party 146,312
- Progress Party 107,784
- Liberal People's Party 73,854
- Liberal Party 49,668
- Red Electoral Alliance 9,360
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 counts an alliance's votes and seats under its first party: such a row names the allies it counts.
Share of the vote
Turnout
80.2% of the 2,686,676 registered voters cast a ballot (2,155,734 ballots), down 3.6 points on 1969. 2,152,204 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1961 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Labour Party35.3% of votes40.0% of seats
- Conservative Party17.4% of votes18.7% of seats
- Centre Party11.0% of votes13.5% of seats
- Christian Democratic Party12.2% of votes12.9% of seats
- Socialist Left Party11.2% of votes10.3% of seats
- Progress Party5.0% of votes2.6% of seats
- Liberal Party3.5% of votes1.3% of seats
- Liberal People's Party3.4% of votes0.6% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.0 by votes and 4.1 by seats; Labour Party led Conservative Party by 17.9 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
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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