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Immigration and immigrants: Elections
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Immigrants and the general election 2017
Reports 2019/17
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Immigrants and the 2015 municipal and county council elections
Reports 2017/10
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Do refugees get involved in local politics?
Statistical analysis 2017
Municipal election statistics for 2015 show that immigrants have a lower voter turnout than other voters in Norway, and that refugees are generally no more politically engaged than the majority of immigrants. Two per cent of municipal council repr...
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Lower voter turnout than Sweden and Denmark
Voter turnout in local elections has been falling in Norway and most of Europe in recent decades. Four years ago, the number going to the polls in Norway increased, from 62 to 65 per cent. The share of the Norwegian electorate that exercises its r...
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Female chairmen in three out of ten municipalities
Twenty-eight per cent of the chairmen in Norwegian municipal councils are women. This is an increase of six percentage points from the 2011 election when 96 of the chairmen were women. The Labour Party and the Centre Party gained most chairmen. Am...
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Voter turnout highest among women
The turnout in the 2015 elections was 62 per cent among women and 57 per cent among men. Among the over 67s, however, participation is higher among men. Among those with a tertiary education, almost 8 out of 10 voted, while among those without an ...
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Voter turnout decreased in most municipalities
The turnout in the municipal elections this autumn was 60.0 per cent; a decrease of 4.2 percentage points compared to the 2011 municipal elections. Sixty-five of the 428 municipalities saw an increase in voter turnout, while the remainder saw a de...
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218 000 new voters are eligible to vote
A total of 4 025 950 persons are eligible to vote this year. This is an increase of 218 000 since the previous municipal and county elections. The biggest increase is among voters with an immigrant background. A total of 534 000 voters in this gro...
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Electoral turnout among persons with immigrant background
Reports 2015/33
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60 000 list nominees
For this year’s county and municipal elections, 59 983 nominees are candidates. The proportion of females is 43 per cent. The share with an immigrant background is 4.2 per cent; an increase of 0.7 percentage points compared to the local elections ...
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Four million have the right to vote
For the first time in history, over four million people are entitled to vote in an election held in Norway. This is an increase of about 219 000 voters from the municipal and county council election held in 2011.
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Surge in immigrant Conservative voters, but most vote Labour
In the general election of 2013, over 60 per cent of voters with an immigrant background from Africa, Asia and Latin America voted for centre-left parties. If we compare the general election in 2013 with the municipal elections in 2011, support fo...
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Immigrants and the 2013 Storting Election
Reports 2014/32
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Immigrants and the 2011 municipal and county council elections
Reports 2013/25
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