Country: | Norway |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1918 Norwegian parliamentary election |
Previous Year: | 1918 |
Next Election: | 1924 Norwegian parliamentary election |
Next Year: | 1924 |
Seats For Election: | All 150 seats in the Storting |
Majority Seats: | 76 |
Election Date: | 24 October 1921 |
Leader1: | Otto Bahr Halvorsen |
Party1: | Conservative Party (Norway) |
Last Election1: | 30.39%, 40 seats |
Seats1: | 42 |
Seat Change1: | 2 |
Popular Vote1: | 301,372 (H+FV) |
Percentage1: | 33.31% (H+FV) |
Leader2: | Gunnar Knudsen |
Party2: | Liberal Party (Norway) |
Last Election2: | 28.32%. 51 seats |
Seats2: | 37 |
Seat Change2: | 14 |
Popular Vote2: | 181,989 |
Percentage2: | 20.12% |
Image3: | Kyrre Grepp.jpg |
Leader3: | Kyrre Grepp |
Party3: | Labour Party (Norway) |
Last Election3: | 31.63%, 18 seats |
Seats3: | 29 |
Seat Change3: | 11 |
Popular Vote3: | 192,616 |
Percentage3: | 21.29% |
Leader4: | Kristoffer Høgset |
Party4: | Farmers' |
Last Election4: | 4.67%, 3 seats |
Seats4: | 17 |
Seat Change4: | 14 |
Popular Vote4: | 118,657 |
Percentage4: | 13.12% |
Image5: | Bernt Holtsmark.jpg |
Leader5: | Bernt Holtsmark |
Party5: | Free-minded Liberal Party |
Last Election5: | 10 seats with H |
Seats5: | 15 |
Seat Change5: | 5 |
Popular Vote5: | Alliance with H |
Percentage5: | — |
Party6: | Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway |
Seats6: | 8 |
Seat Change6: | New |
Popular Vote6: | 83,629 |
Percentage6: | 9.24% |
Party7: | Radical People's Party (Norway) |
Last Election7: | 3.32%, 3 seats |
Seats7: | 2 |
Seat Change7: | 1 |
Popular Vote7: | 22,970 |
Percentage7: | 2.54% |
Prime Minister | |
Posttitle: | Prime Minister after election |
Before Election: | Otto Albert Blehr |
Before Party: | Liberal Party (Norway) |
After Election: | Otto Albert Blehr |
After Party: | Liberal Party (Norway) |
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 24 October 1921.[1] This was the first election to use proportional representation, which replaced previous two-round system.[2] The result was a victory for the Conservative Party-Free-minded Liberal Party alliance, which won 57 of the 150 seats in the Storting.
Constituency | Total seats | Seats won | ||||||
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H–FV | V | Ap | L | SD | RF | |||
Akershus | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Aust-Agder | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||
Bergen | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Buskerud | 5 | 3 | 2 | |||||
Finnmark | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Hedmark | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||
Hordaland | 8 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||
Kristiana | 7 | 5 | 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 | 2 | 1 | |||||
Market towns of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Market towns of Sør-Trøndelag and Nord-Trøndelag | 5 | 3 | 2 | |||||
Market towns of Telemark and Aust-Agder | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
Market towns of Vestfold | 4 | 3 | 1 | |||||
Møre | 7 | 5 | 2 | |||||
Nord-Trøndelag | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
Nordland | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
Oppland | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||
Østfold | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
Rogaland | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||
Sogn og Fjordane | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||
Sør-Trøndelag | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
Telemark | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Troms | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
Vest-Agder | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||
Vestfold | 4 | 3 | 1 | |||||
Total | 150 | 57 | 37 | 29 | 17 | 8 | 2 | |
Source: Norges Offisielle Statistikk |
width=200px | Newspaper | Party endorsed | width=300px | Notes | |
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Jarlsberg og Laurvigs Amtstidende (nn) | width=150px | Conservative Party[3] | |||
width=150px | Free-minded Liberal Party | ||||
Folkets Dagblad | width=150px | Labour Party[4] | |||
Sunnmørsposten | width=150px | Liberal Party[5] |