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1936 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 H. Andresen Johan Ludwig Mowinckel Party Labour Conservative Liberal Last election 40.1%, 69 seats 20.2%, 30 seats 17.7%, 24 seats Seats won 70 36 23 Seat change 1 6 1 Popular vote 618,616 310,324 232,784 Percentage 42.5% 21.3% 16.0%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Jens Hundseid Ingebrigt Bjørø [no] Bertram Dybwad Brochmann Party Farmers' Christian Democratic Society Last election 13.9%, 23 seats 0.8%, 1 seat 1.5%, 1 seat Seats won 18 2 1 Seat change 5 1 0 Popular vote 168,038 19,612 45,109 Percentage 11.5% 1.3% 3.1%
Results by county
Prime Minister before election Johan Nygaardsvold Labour Prime Minister after election Johan Nygaardsvold Labour

Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 19 October 1936, the last before World War II and the German invasion of Norway. The result was a victory for the Labour Party, which won 70 of the 150 seats in the Storting.

During the election campaign, the conservative and liberal parties ran on the slogan "A free people in a free Norway." They argued that a Labour Party victory would lead to terrorism, dictatorship, and Marxism. A prominent controversial topic during the election campaign was the decision of the Labour government to allow Leon Trotsky to take up a domicile in Norway in 1935.

Campaign

Slogans

National daily newspaper endorsements

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Labour Party	618,616	42.51	70	+1
	Conservative Party–Free-minded People's Party	310,324	21.32	36	+6
	Liberal Party	232,784	16.00	23	–1
	Farmers' Party	168,038	11.55	18	–5
	Society Party	45,109	3.10	1	0
	Nasjonal Samling	26,577	1.83	0	0
	Christian Democratic Party	19,612	1.35	2	+1
	Free-minded People's Party–Fatherland League	19,236	1.32	0	0
	Radical People's Party	6,407	0.44	0	–1
	Communist Party	4,376	0.30	0	0
	Other parties	4,132	0.28	0	–
Wild votes		27	0.00	–	–
Total		1,455,238	100.00	150	0
Valid votes		1,455,238	99.44
Invalid/blank votes		8,230	0.56
Total votes		1,463,468	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,741,905	84.02
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Seat distribution

Notes

1. ^ The Conservative Party and the Free-minded People's Party continued their alliance, but in some constituencies the Free-minded People's Party ran a joint list with the Fatherland League.

References

1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1438 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
2. ^ Arneson, Ben A. (1937). "Workers' Parties Show Gains in Sweden and Norway". American Political Science Review. 31 (1): 97–99. doi:10.2307/1948050. ISSN 0003-0554.
3. "Historiske slagord og plakater". Arbeiderpartiet (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2024-03-19.
4. "Adresseavisen, lørdag 17. oktober 1936". www.nb.no. Retrieved 2024-02-27.
5. Nohlen & Stöver, p1451

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