Norwegian parliamentary election in 2013

Norwegian parliamentary election, 2013

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All 169 seats in the Norwegian Parliament 85 seats were needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Jens Stoltenberg Erna Solberg Siv Jensen Party Labour Conservative Progress Leader's seat Oslo Hordaland Oslo Last election 64 seats, 35.4% 30 seats, 17.2% 41 seats, 22.9% Seats won 55 48 29 Seat change 9 18 12 Popular vote 874,769 760,232 463,560 Percentage 30.8% 26.8% 16.3% Swing 4.5 pp 9.6 pp 6.6 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Knut Arild Hareide Liv Signe Navarsete Trine Skei Grande Party Christian Democratic Centre Liberal Leader's seat Hordaland Sogn og Fjordane Oslo Last election 10 seats, 5.5% 11 seats, 6.2% 2 seats, 3.8% Seats won 10 10 9 Seat change 1 7 Popular vote 158,475 155,357 148,275 Percentage 5.6% 5.5% 5.2% Swing 0.1 pp 0.7pp 1.4pp   Seventh party Eighth party   Leader Audun Lysbakken Hanna E. Marcussen Harald A. Nissen Party Socialist Left Green Leader's seat Hordaland Last election 11 seats, 6.2% 0 seats, 0.4% Seats won 7 1 Seat change 4 1 Popular vote 116,021 79,152 Percentage 4.1% 2.8% Swing 2.1pp 2.4pp
Prime Minister before election Jens Stoltenberg Labour Elected Prime Minister Erna Solberg Conservative

Jens Stoltenberg
Labour

Erna Solberg
Conservative

A parliamentary election was held in Norway on 8 and 9 September 2013. The centre-right coalition obtained 96 seats, while the incumbent red–green coalition government obtained 72 seats and the Green Party obtained one. The Labour Party won the largest share (30.8%) of the votes cast, with the Conservatives coming second (26.8%), after increasing their share by 9.6 percentage points.

Elections in Norway are held on a Monday in September, usually the second or third Monday, as determined by the king-in-council (i.e. the government). In 2013 the election was held on the second Monday. Each municipality was permitted to open some or all of its polling stations on the day before the nationwide election day. This option was exercised by 206 of the 428 municipalities. The main period for early voting was 12 August to 6 September, it was also possible to make an even earlier vote after 1 July by contacting the municipal government.

The election was the fourth for incumbent Prime Minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg, whose party was previously defeated in the 2001 parliamentary election, but who won both the 2005 parliamentary election and the 2009 parliamentary election (though in the latter election, the opposition narrowly received more votes than the coalition) leading the red–green coalition. Had he been re-elected, Stoltenberg would have been the first prime minister in Norway to be elected for three consecutive terms.

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