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Labour's worst election in 77 years
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2001-11-02T10:00:00.000Z
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Labour's worst election in 77 years

The Labour Party suffered its biggest loss of votes ever, as their share of the votes dropped from 35.1 per cent in 1997 to 24.3 per cent. Labour only won 43 out of 165 seats in Parliament. The Conservative Party increased their support with 6.9 percentage points to 21.2 per cent and regained their position as Norway's second largest party.

 Storting Election 2001. Votes cast for selected parties. Per cent

The electoral turnout was at 75.5 per cent; this is a decrease of 2.8 percentage points from the last general election and the lowest since 1927. 20 per cent of the votes were cast in advance, which is an increase of 1.1 per cent. As in earlier elections the highest turnout was in Akershus county and the lowest was in Finnmark county. The electoral turnout fell in all counties; largest was the decrease in Telemark where the turnout decreased with 4.2 percentage points.

 Storting Election 2001. Votes cast in advance/at polling station. Per cent

The Conservative Party gained 6.9 points

The Conservative Party got 21.2 per cent of the votes and compared with the poor result in 1997 this was a major increase for the party. Of the votes cast in advance, the Conservative Party won 24.6 per cent and was the largest party among those who voted in advance. Labour only got 22 per cent of the votes cast in advance. The Liberals who did not manage to reach the 4 per cent threshold for seats at large won 4.1 per cent of the votes at the polling stations, however their share of the votes given in advance was only 3.1 per cent, hence the Liberals did not qualify for the allocation of seats at large.

Socialist Left saw a major increase in their share of votes from 6 per cent in 1997 to 12.5 percent in 2001. Socialist Left now has 23 representatives in the Storting, the highest number of representatives in the history of the party.

The Centre Party only attracted 4 per cent of the votes cast in advance and 6 per cent of the votes cast at the polling stations. All in all 5.6 percent voted for the Centre Party, which is the worst result for the Centre Party since it was founded in 1918.

The Conservative Party won representation from all counties except Nord-Trøndelag. The Conservative Party lacked 72 votes for a mandate in Nord-Trøndelag. Labour was the only party that was represented from all counties. The Conservative Party attracted the highest number of votes in 6 counties, while the Christian Democratic Party was the largest party in 2 counties. Labour was the largest party in the remaining counties.

 Storting Election 2001. Electoral turnout in per cent. 1900-2001

Stable female representation

During the 70's and the 80's there was a steady increase in the number of female representatives in the Storting. The numbers of females in the new Storting increased from 60 to 61, 37 per cent of the representatives are female. With the exception of a small peak in 1993, the number of females in the parliament has been stable for the last 4 elections. The Centre Party has the highest share of female representatives, as 6 out of 10 are women. There are only 3 women among the Progress Party's 26 representatives.

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