1933 Norwegian parliamentary election
16 October 1933
All 150 seats in the Norwegian Parliament
76 seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Oscar Torp C. J. Hambro Johan Ludwig Mowinckel
Party Labour Conservative Liberal
Last election 47 seats, 31.4% 39 seats, 27.4% 33 seats, 20.2%
Seats won 69 30 24
Seat change Increase22 Decrease9 Decrease9
Popular vote 500,526 252,506 (H+FF) 213,153
Percentage 40.1% 20.2% (H+FF) 17.7%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Jens Hundseid Rolf Thommessen Bertram Dybwad Brochmann
Party Farmers' Free-minded Liberal Society
Last election 25 seats, 15.9% 5 seats, 2.6%/ with H New
Seats won 23 1 1
Seat change Decrease2 Decrease4 Increase1
Popular vote 173,634 20,184/All. with H 18,786
Percentage 13.9% 1.6%/— 1.5%
  Seventh party Eighth party
 
Leader Ingebrigt Bjørø  ?
Party Christian Democratic Radical People's
Last election New 1 seat, 0.8%
Seats won 1 1
Seat change Increase1 Steady0
Popular vote 10,272 6,858
Percentage 0.8% 0.5%
Prime Minister before election

Johan Ludwig Mowinckel
Liberal

 Prime Minister after election

Johan Ludwig Mowinckel
Liberal

Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 16 October 1933.[1][2] The result was a victory for the Labour Party, which won 69 of the 150 seats in the Storting.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Labour Party500,52640.0869+22
Conservative Party[lower-alpha 1]252,50620.2230–9
Free-minded People's Party[lower-alpha 1]0–2
Liberal Party213,15317.0724–9
Farmers' Party173,63413.9123–2
Nasjonal Samling27,8502.230New
Communist Party22,7731.8200
Free-minded People's Party[lower-alpha 1]20,1841.621–2
Society Party18,7861.501New
Christian Democratic Party10,2720.821New
Radical People's Party6,8580.5510
Other parties2,1300.170–
Wild votes140.00––
Total1,248,686100.001500
Valid votes1,248,68699.49
Invalid/blank votes6,3520.51
Total votes1,255,038100.00
Registered voters/turnout1,643,49876.36
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Seat distribution

Constituency Total
seats		 Seats won
Ap H–FV V B FV Sfp KrF RF
Akershus 7 4 2 1
Aust-Agder 4 1 1 1 1
Bergen 5 2 1 1 1
Buskerud 5 3 1 1
Finnmark 3 2 1
Hedmark 7 5 2
Hordaland 8 2 1 3 1
Market towns
of Akershus and Østfold		 4 3 1 1
Market towns of Buskerud 3 2 1
Market towns of
Hedmark and Oppland		 3 2 1
Market towns of Møre 3 2 1
Market towns of
Nordland, Troms and Finnmark		 4 2 1 1
Market towns of
Sør-Trøndelag and Nord-Trøndelag		 5 2 2 1
Market towns of
Telemark and Aust-Agder		 5 2 2 1
Market towns of
Vest-Agder and Rogaland		 7 3 2 2
Market towns of Vestfold 4 2 2
Møre 7 1 3 3
Nord-Trøndelag 5 2 1 2
Nordland 8 4 1 1 2
Oppland 6 3 2 1
Oslo 7 4 3
Østfold 6 3 1 2
Rogaland 5 1 1 2 1
Sogn og Fjordane 5 1 2 2
Sør-Trøndelag 6 3 1 1 1
Telemark 5 3 1 1
Troms 5 3 1 1
Vest-Agder 4 1 1 1 1
Vestfold 4 1 2 1
Total 150 69 30 24 23 1 1 1 1
Source: Norges Offisielle Statistikk

National daily newspapers

Newspaper Party endorsed Notes
Nordlys Labour Party[4]
Sunnmøre Arbeideravis Labour Party[5]
Velgeren Liberal Party[6] Vote down the class parties, vote down the conservative party
Porsgrunns Dagblad Liberal Party[7]
Haugesunds Avis Liberal Party[8]
Sunnmørsposten Liberal Party[9]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 The Conservative Party and the Free-minded People's Party continued their alliance, but in some constituencies the Free-minded People's Party ran separate lists.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1438 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ↑ Arneson, Ben A. (1934). "Democratized Socialism Makes Gains in Norway". American Political Science Review. 28 (1): 109–112. doi:10.2307/1946726. ISSN 0003-0554.
  3. ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p1450
  4. ↑ "Nordlys Dagblad for arbeiderbevegelsen i Tromsø og Troms". Nordlys (in Norwegian). 16 October 1933.
  5. ↑ "Sunnmøre Arbeideravis". Sunnmøre Arbeideravis (in Norwegian). 16 October 1933.
  6. ↑ "Velgeren". Velgeren (in Norwegian). 16 October 1933.
  7. ↑ "Porsgrunns Dagblad". Porsgrunns Dagblad (in Norwegian). 14 October 1933.
  8. ↑ "Haugesunds Avis". Haugesunds Avis (in Norwegian). No. 239. 14 October 1933. p. 1.
  9. ↑ "Sunnmørsposten". Sunnmørsposten (in Norwegian). 14 October 1933. p. 1.
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