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Norway 1977 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 76 of 155 seats with 42.3% of the vote; 82.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.7 points on 1973.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Labour Party76+1442.3+7.0972,434
Conservative Party41+1224.8+7.4563,783
Christian Democratic Party22+212.4+0.2224,355
Centre Party12−98.6−2.4184,087
Socialist Left Party2−144.2−7.096,248
Liberal Party203.2−0.354,243
Progress Party0−41.9−3.143,351
Liberal People's Party0−11.4−2.022,524

± is the change against the Norway 1973 parliamentary election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Labour Party 972,434
  • Conservative Party 563,783
  • Christian Democratic Party 224,355
  • Centre Party 184,087
  • Socialist Left Party 96,248
  • Liberal Party 54,243
  • Progress Party 43,351
  • Liberal People's Party 22,524

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

82.9% of the 2,780,190 registered voters cast a ballot (2,304,496 ballots), up 2.7 points on 1973. 2,301,110 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Labour Party42.3% of votes49.0% of seats
  • Conservative Party24.8% of votes26.5% of seats
  • Christian Democratic Party12.4% of votes14.2% of seats
  • Centre Party8.6% of votes7.7% of seats
  • Socialist Left Party4.2% of votes1.3% of seats
  • Liberal Party3.2% of votes1.3% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.8 by votes and 3.0 by seats; Labour Party led Conservative Party by 17.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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