On 25 September 2025, the statistics on Electoral turnout in the 2025 parliamentary election were updated with preliminary figures based on data covering 99.5% of eligible voters. Historically, the difference between preliminary and final key figures is very small. Final key figures will be published later this autumn.
Statistikk innhold
Statistics on
Electoral turnout
The statistics show voter turnout for general elections and municipal council and county council elections by gender, age level of education eg. for country,county and some municipalities. Time series from 1969.
Selected figures from these statistics
- Electoral turnout, by sex, age and educationDownload table as ...Electoral turnout, by sex, age and education
Municipal county council elections Municipal county council elections General election General election1 2019 2023 2021 2025 Both sexes 64.8 62.4 77.2 80.0 Males 62.3 60.3 75.6 78.8 Females 67.2 64.6 78.7 81.2 Age 18-19 years 58.3 55.6 71.7 77.5 20-24 years 47.0 45.5 65.4 75.3 25-44 years 56.4 52.5 72.0 75.9 45-66 years 71.9 69.1 82.3 83.4 67-79 years 78.7 77.4 85.0 85.7 80 years or older 61.8 64.4 70.3 74.7 Level of education Basic school level 50.5 45.9 61.1 65.5 Upper secondary education 66.5 62.7 77.5 80.4 Higher education 78.9 75.1 88.0 89.8 1Preliminary figures on voter turnout Preliminary figures based on the number of voters who have checked their ballots among 99.5 percent of those eligible to vote. The difference between preliminary and final figures is, in experience, very small. Final figures will be published later this fall. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
About the statistics
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 10 June 2021.
The estimates for electoral turnout are based on whether the persons entitled to vote was at the polling station and cast a ballot. The voter will then be ticked off in the electoral roll. We do not know if the ballot will be rejected eg. The estimates for electoral turnout and number of votes for the sum of parties will not be 100% in accordance. however, the discrepancy is very small.
Name: Electoral turnout
Topic: Elections
Division for Population Statistics
Municipality
Every 2 year.
The statistics files are stored long term in SSB.
The political parties and journalists are frequent users of the statistics. The statistics are also used by ministries in the calculation of financial support to the parties, municipalities and county municipalities. Students and election researchers are also frequent users.
Ingen eksterne brukere har tilgang til statistikk før den er publisert samtidig for alle kl. 08.00 på ssb.no etter forhåndsvarsling senest tre måneder før i Statistikkalenderen. Dette er et av de viktigste prinsippene i SSB for å sikre likebehandling av brukerne.
Act on Official Statistics and Statistics Norway §§ 10 and 20.
All persons entitled to vote