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Increased electoral turnout
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2005-10-27T10:00:00.000Z
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Storting election, 2005

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Increased electoral turnout

The electoral turnout was 77.4 per cent in the Storting election 2005 - an increase of 1.9 per cent from the last general election. Fewer votes were caste in advance. The Labour Party received about one third of all votes caste in advance.

17.8 per cent of the votes were cast in advance, which is a decrease of 2.2 per cent. As in earlier elections the highest turnout was recorded in Akershus County and the lowest in Finnmark County. The electoral turnout rose in all counties. The largest increase was recorded in the counties of Oslo and Aust-Agder where the electoral turnout increased by 2.7 percentage points.

Labour Party and Progress party election winners

The Labour Party received 32.7 per cent of the votes. Compared with the poor results in 2001 this was a major increase for the party. But the result is modest compared with earlier elections. Only once since 1930 the Labour Party has achieved a lower amount of the votes. Of the votes cast in advance, the Labour Party won 31.6 per cent and was the largest party among those who voted in advance.

The Progress Party achieved one fifth of the votes cast in advance, and did their best election ever. The Progress Party is now the second largest in the Storting with 22.1 per cent of the votes and representatives from every county.

The Liberals did their best general election since 1969, and got 8 more representatives in the Storting.

The Centre Party increased slightly by 0.9 per cent, and is now on the same level as in the eighties.

       
             

Worst election for conservatives and christian democrats

The Christian Democratic Party suffered a loss of votes by 5.6 per cent. In a historical perspective this is the worst election result ever for this party.

The Conservative Party reach a historical low level with only 14.1 per cent of the total votes. The Party is the third largest and no longer the leading "non-socialist" Party. The conservatives got their biggest loss of votes in their strongest areas, in Oslo and Vestfold.

Storting Election 2005. Votes cast in advance/at polling station

Storting Election 2005. Electoral turnout per cent. 1900-2005.

The Socialist Left Party lost 3.7 per cent of the votes from the Storting election in 2001. But still, this result is the fourth best ever. The general election in 2001 was the Socialist Left Party culumation point.

Stable female representation

The number of females in the new Storting increased from 61 to 64 - 38 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 Labour Party has the highest proportion of female representatives, as 32 out of 61 are women. There are only 6 women among the Progress Party's 38 representatives.

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