elections

Politics of Norway Norway elects its legislature on a national level. The Storting has 165 members, elected for a four year term (during which it may not be dissolved) by the proportional representation in multi-seat constituencyconstituencies. From 2005 the Storting will have 169 members. The Storting is for legislative cases divided in the Lagting (41 members) and the Odelsting (124 members).Norway has a multi-party system, with numerous political partiesparties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and political partiesparties must work with each other to form coalition governments.In Norway, elections are held every second year, alternating between elections for the Parliament and local elections, both of which are held on a 4-yearly basis.Suffrage is universal from the year a person turns 18 years old, even if the person turns 18 later in the year the election is held. Only NorwayNorwegian citizenshipcitizens can vote in the Parliamentary elections, but foreigners who have lived in Norway for three years continuously can vote in the local elections.Women's suffrage was adopted in 1913.The last election was the Norwegian parliamentary election, 20052005 parliamentary election, on 12 September this year.

Parliamentary elections - Norway is divided into 19 counties, and each county is a constituency in the election. Each county elects a pre-calculated number of seats in the Parliament (StortingStortinget) based on the population and geographical area of the county, where each inhabitant scores one point and each square kilometer scores 1.8 points. This calculation is done every eight years. This practice has been criticised because in some larger counties with sparse population a single vote counts more than in other more densely populated counties. Others claim that counties with a scattered and sparse population and who are situated far away from the central administration in Oslo should have a stronger representation in the Parliament. In the more recent elections a vote in Finnmark county has counted twice as much as in Akershus county or Oslo county.After the votes are counted and the members of the Parliament are designated their respective seats of their county, 19 ''levelling seats'', one in each county, are divided to parties who got fewer seats than their election result percentage would suggest. Only parties with more than 4% of the votes on a national basis are entitled to levelling seats. The practice of levelling seats was adopted in 1989.For the elections in 2005 and 2009 the distribution of seats is(numbers are inclusive ''levelling seats''):

Østfold 9

Akershus 16

Oslo 17

Hedmark 8

Oppland 7

Buskerud 9

Vestfold 7

Telemark 6

Aust-Agder 4

Vest-Agder 6

Rogaland 13

Hordaland 15

Sogn og Fjordane 5

Møre og Romsdal 9

Sør-Trøndelag 10

Nord-Trøndelag 6

Nordland 10

Troms 7

Finnmark 5

Total 169

Results -

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1945

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1949

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1953

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1957

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1961

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1965

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1969

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1973

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1977

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1981

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1985

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1989

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1993

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1997

Norwegian parliamentary election, 2001

Norwegian parliamentary election, 2005

The system - Norway uses the same system in both local and national elections when it comes to distributing mandates. This method is the modified Sainte-Laguë method and the underlying principle is that the number of mandates a party gets in the Storting should be as close to the relative number of votes the party got in the election (the principle of mathematical fairness).There are several exceptions to the above-mentioned principle:# Levelling seats: These mandates exist to adjust what was thought to be unfair: A party could theoretically get a number of votes nation-wide, but not a high enough count in any single constituency to get a mandate.# The rural additions: Sparsely populated constituencies get more mandates than they should be getting. This is to maintain a representative feeling in the national assembly and to prevent urban votes overrunning the rural votes, but has lately been heavily criticised for being undemocratic and not mathematically fair.# Many parties, few mandates: In every one of the 19 constituencies, all of the 7 parties currently represented in the Storting (SV, Ap, V, Sp, KrF, H, FrP) run lists. In addition to these, RV and many other parties(a total of 21 in 2005) run lists. These parties all compete for the same mandates, and in constituencies with few mandates, only a few of them get in. This is partially offset by levelling seats.

Referenda -

Norwegian referendum on the dissolution of the union between Sweden and Norway, 1905

Norwegian referendum on Prince Charles of Denmark as Norwegian King, 1905

Norwegian Prohibition referendum, 1919

Norwegian Continued Prohibition referendum, 1926

Norwegian EC referendum, 1972

Norwegian EU referendum, 1994

Local elections - The local elections are two separate elections held at the same time. The first is the county municipality election, which elects politicians to the County Council (Norway)County Council. Second is the municipality election, which elects politicians to the municipality council (Norway)municipality council.

External links -

electionworld.org - Electionworld

psephos.adam-carr.net - Adam Carr's Election Archive

parties-and-elections.de - political parties and elections

odin.dep.no - The official government summary of the Norwegian electoral systemCategory:Elections in Norway !no:Stortingsvalgnn:Stortingsva l DEBUG REDIRECT (elections in norway)

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