Norway 1997 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 65 of 165 seats with 35.0% of the vote; 78.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.5 points on 1993.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | 65 | −2 | 35.0 | −1.9 | 904,382 |
| Progress Party | 25 | +15 | 15.3 | +9.0 | 395,378 |
| Conservative Party | 23 | −5 | 14.3 | −2.7 | 370,441 |
| Christian Democratic Party | 25 | +12 | 13.7 | +5.8 | 353,082 |
| Centre Party | 11 | −21 | 7.9 | −8.8 | 204,824 |
| Socialist Left Party | 9 | −4 | 6.0 | −1.9 | 155,307 |
| Liberal Party | 6 | +5 | 4.5 | +0.9 | 115,077 |
| Red Electoral Alliance | 0 | −1 | 1.7 | +0.6 | 43,252 |
| Coastal Party | 1 | 0.4 | 9,195 |
± is the change against the Norway 1993 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Labour Party 904,382
- Progress Party 395,378
- Conservative Party 370,441
- Christian Democratic Party 353,082
- Centre Party 204,824
- Socialist Left Party 155,307
- Liberal Party 115,077
- Red Electoral Alliance 43,252
- Coastal Party 9,195
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
78.3% of the 3,311,090 registered voters cast a ballot (2,593,669 ballots), up 2.5 points on 1993. 2,584,161 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Labour Party35.0% of votes39.4% of seats
- Progress Party15.3% of votes15.2% of seats
- Christian Democratic Party13.7% of votes15.2% of seats
- Conservative Party14.3% of votes13.9% of seats
- Centre Party7.9% of votes6.7% of seats
- Socialist Left Party6.0% of votes5.5% of seats
- Liberal Party4.5% of votes3.6% of seats
- Coastal Party0.4% of votes0.6% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.1 by votes and 4.4 by seats; Labour Party led Progress Party by 19.7 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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