1927 Norwegian parliamentary election

1927 Norwegian parliamentary election

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All 150 seats in the Storting
76 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Oscar Torp Johan Ludwig Mowinckel C. J. Hambro
Party Labour Liberal Conservative
Last election 18.44%, 24 seats 18.58%, 34 seats 32.53%, 43 seats
Seats won 59 30 29
Seat change Increase35 Decrease4 Decrease14
Popular vote 368,106 172,568 240,091 (H+FV)
Percentage 36.84% 17.27% 24.03% (H+FV)

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Erik Enge Peder Furubotn P. A. Holm
Party Farmers' Communist Free-minded Liberal
Last election 13.52%, 22 seats 6.10%, 6 seats 11 seats with H
Seats won 26 3 2
Seat change Increase4 Decrease3 Decrease9
Popular vote 149,026 40,075 With H
Percentage 14.91% 4.01%

Prime Minister before election

Ivar Lykke
Conservative

Prime Minister after election

Ivar Lykke
Conservative

Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 17 October 1927.[1][2] The Labour Party emergeed as the largest party, winning 59 of the 150 seats in the Storting.[3] However, the subsequent government was headed by Ivar Lykke of the Conservative Party.

Newspaper endorsements

Newspaper Party endorsed
Nordland Free-minded Liberal Party[4]
Tiden Labour Party[5]
Vestfinnmark Arbeiderblad Labour Party[6]
Aftenposten Free-minded Liberal Party[7]
Conservative Party

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Labour Party368,10636.8459+35
Conservative Party[a]240,09124.0329–14
Free-minded Liberal Party[a]1
Liberal Party172,56817.2730–4
Farmers' Party149,02614.9126+4
Communist Party40,0754.013–3
Free-minded Liberal Party[a]14,4391.441
Radical People's Party13,4591.351–1
National Legion1,2100.120
Fishermen and the Liberal People's Party3080.030
Wild votes150.00
Total999,297100.001500
Valid votes999,29798.88
Invalid/blank votes11,3281.12
Total votes1,010,625100.00
Registered voters/turnout1,484,40968.08
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, Norges Offisielle Statistikk

Seat distribution

Constituency Total
seats
Seats won
Ap HFV V B K RF
Akershus 7 3 3 1
Aust-Agder 4 1 1 1 1
Bergen 5 1 2 1 1
Buskerud 5 3 1 1
Finnmark 3 2 1
Hedmark 7 3 1 2 1
Hordaland 8 1 1 4 2
Market towns of Akershus and Østfold 4 2 2
Market towns of Buskerud 3 2 1
Market towns of Hedmark and Oppland 3 2 1
Market towns of Møre 3 1 1 1
Market towns of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark 4 2 1 1
Market towns of Sør-Trøndelag and Nord-Trøndelag 5 2 2 1
Market towns of Telemark and Aust-Agder 5 2 2 1
Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland 7 3 2 2
Market towns of Vestfold 4 2 2
Møre 7 1 4 2
Nord-Trøndelag 5 2 1 2
Nordland 8 3 2 2 1
Oppland 6 2 3 1
Oslo 7 4 3
Østfold 6 3 1 2
Rogaland 5 1 2 2
Sogn og Fjordane 5 1 2 2
Sør-Trøndelag 6 2 2 2
Telemark 5 2 2 1
Troms 5 4 1
Vest-Agder 4 1 2 1
Vestfold 4 1 2 1
Total 150 59 31 30 26 3 1
Source: Norges Offisielle Statistikk

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c The Conservative Party and the Free-minded Liberal Party continued their alliance, but in some constituencies the Free-minded Liberal Party ran separate lists.[8] It won one seat on the joint lists and one seat on a separate list.[9]

References

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1438 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Knaplund, Paul (1928). "Norwegian Elections of 1927 and the Labor Government". American Political Science Review. 22 (2): 413–416. doi:10.2307/1945479. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 1945479. S2CID 147621396.
  3. ^ Arneson, Ben A. (1931). "Norway Moves Toward the Right". American Political Science Review. 25 (1): 152–157. doi:10.2307/1946579. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 1946579. S2CID 146458203.
  4. ^ "Nordland". Nordland (in Norwegian). 12 October 1927. p. 1.
  5. ^ "Tiden". Tiden (in Norwegian). 15 October 1927. p. 1.
  6. ^ "Vestfinnmark Arbeiderblad". Vestfinnmark Arbeiderblad (in Norwegian). 17 October 1927. p. 1.
  7. ^ "Aftenposten". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 17 October 1927. p. 1.
  8. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1450
  9. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1458