Norway 2001 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 43 of 165 seats with 24.3% of the vote; 75.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.8 points on 1997.
- Norway
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | 43 | −22 | 24.3 | −10.7 | 612,632 |
| Conservative Party | 38 | +15 | 21.2 | +6.9 | 534,852 |
| Progress Party | 26 | +1 | 14.7 | −0.6 | 369,236 |
| Socialist Left Party | 23 | +14 | 12.5 | +6.5 | 316,397 |
| Christian Democratic Party | 22 | −3 | 12.5 | −1.2 | 312,839 |
| Centre Party | 10 | −1 | 5.6 | −2.3 | 140,287 |
| Liberal Party | 2 | −4 | 3.9 | −0.6 | 98,486 |
| Coastal Party | 1 | 0 | 1.7 | +1.3 | 44,010 |
| Red Electoral Alliance | 0 | 0 | 1.2 | −0.5 | 30,015 |
± is the change against the Norway 1997 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Labour Party 612,632
- Conservative Party 534,852
- Progress Party 369,236
- Socialist Left Party 316,397
- Christian Democratic Party 312,839
- Centre Party 140,287
- Liberal Party 98,486
- Coastal Party 44,010
- Red Electoral Alliance 30,015
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
75.5% of the 3,358,856 registered voters cast a ballot (2,537,041 ballots), down 2.8 points on 1997. 2,521,820 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1945. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Labour Party24.3% of votes26.1% of seats
- Conservative Party21.2% of votes23.0% of seats
- Progress Party14.7% of votes15.8% of seats
- Socialist Left Party12.5% of votes13.9% of seats
- Christian Democratic Party12.5% of votes13.3% of seats
- Centre Party5.6% of votes6.1% of seats
- Liberal Party3.9% of votes1.2% of seats
- Coastal Party1.7% of votes0.6% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 6.2 by votes and 5.4 by seats; Labour Party led Conservative Party by 3.1 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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