Norwegian parliamentary election, 2005

Norwegian Parliamentary election, 2005

2001 ← 11 and 12 September 2005 → 2009

outgoing members ←

All 169 seats to the Norwegian Parliament 85 seats were needed for a majority   First party Second party Third party   Leader Jens Stoltenberg Carl I. Hagen Erna Solberg Party Labour Progress Conservative Last election 43 seats, 24.3% 26 seats, 14.6% 38 seats, 21.2% Seats won 61 38 23 Seat change 18 12 15 Popular vote 862,757 582,284 372,008 Percentage 32.7% 22.1% 14.1%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Kristin Halvorsen Dagfinn Høybråten Åslaug Haga Party Socialist Left Christian Democratic Centre Last election 23 seats, 12.5% 22 seats, 12.4% 10 seats, 5.6% Seats won 15 11 11 Seat change 8 11 1 Popular vote 232,971 178,885 171,063 Percentage 8.8% 6.8% 6.5%   Seventh party   Leader Lars Sponheim Party Liberal Last election 2 seats, 3.9% Seats won 10 Seat change 8 Popular vote 156,113 Percentage 5.9%

Prime Minister before election Kjell Magne Bondevik Christian Democratic Prime Minister-designate Jens Stoltenberg Labour

Kjell Magne Bondevik
Christian Democratic

Jens Stoltenberg
Labour

Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 11 and 12 September 2005. The result was a victory for the opposition centre-left Red-Green Coalition, which got 48,0 % of the votes and won 87 out of 169 seats, dominated by the Labour Party's 61 seats. The three-party centre-right government coalition won 44 seats and the right wing Progress Party won 38, becoming the largest opposition party. Voter turnout was 77.1%, an increase of 2 percentage points compared to the 2001 elections.

Before the election, Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik led a coalition government consisting of the Conservative Party (38 seats in parliament), Christian People's Party (22 seats and supplied the prime minister) and the Liberals (2 seats), with the conditional support of the right-wing Progress Party. Between them, the three main parties of the coalition held 62 seats in the outgoing 165-seat Storting. The Progress Party held an additional 26, giving the four parties a majority when acting together.

Divisions within the coalition led to the temporary withdrawal of support by the Progress Party in November 2004, in response to what they saw as the government's underfunding of hospitals; an agreement was later reached. The government also attracted criticism for its handling of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, in which several Norwegians died, with the prime minister admitting to mistakes in his government's delayed reaction to the disaster.

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