1912 Norwegian parliamentary election

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21 October 1912 (first round)
4–11 November 1912 (second round)

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All 123 seats in the Storting

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Gunnar Knudsen	Christian Knudsen	Jens Bratlie
Party	Liberal	Labour	Conservative
Last election	46 seats	11 seats	41 seats
Seats won	70	23	20
Seat change	24	12	21
Popular vote	195,526 (V+Ad)	128,455	162,074 (H+FV)
Percentage	39.99% (V+Ad)	26.3%	33.15% (H+FV)

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Johan Castberg	Magnus Halvorsen
Party	Labour Democrats	Free-minded Liberal
Last election	2 seats	23 seats
Seats won	6	4
Seat change	4	19
Popular vote	Alliance with V	Alliance with H
Percentage	—	—

Prime Minister before election

Jens Bratlie
Conservative

Prime Minister after election

Jens Bratlie
Conservative

Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 21 October 1912, with a second round held between 4 and 11 November. The result was a victory for the alliance of the Liberal Party and the Labour Democrats, which won 76 of the 123 seats in the Storting.

Endorsements

National daily newspapers

Newspaper	Party endorsed
Aftenposten		Conservative Party

Results



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Liberal Party	195,526	39.99	70	+24
	Labour Democrats	195,526	39.99	6	+4
	Conservative Party	162,074	33.15	20	–21
	Free-minded Liberal Party	162,074	33.15	4	–19
	Labour Party	128,455	26.27	23	+12
	Riksmål Party	1,033	0.21	0	New
	Teetotaler Party	884	0.18	0	0
	Independent Left Party	528	0.11	0	0
	Church Party	367	0.08	0	0
Wild votes		36	0.01	–	–
Total		488,903	100.00	123	0

Valid votes		488,903	98.74
Invalid/blank votes		6,254	1.26
Total votes		495,157	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		809,582	61.16
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1438 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
"Aftenposten". Aftenposten. 21 October 1912.

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