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Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 24 October 1921. [1] This was the first election to use proportional representation, which replaced previous two-round system. [2] The result was a victory for the Conservative Party-Free-minded Liberal Party alliance, which won 57 of the 150 seats in the Storting.
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Conservative Party | 301,372 | 33.31 | 42 | +2 | |
| Free-minded Liberal Party | 15 | +5 | |||
| Labour Party | 192,616 | 21.29 | 29 | +11 | |
| Liberal Party | 181,989 | 20.12 | 37 | –14 | |
| Farmers' Party | 118,657 | 13.12 | 17 | +14 | |
| Social Democratic Labour Party | 83,629 | 9.24 | 8 | New | |
| Radical People's Party | 22,970 | 2.54 | 2 | –1 | |
| Other parties | 2,811 | 0.31 | 0 | – | |
| Wild votes | 655 | 0.07 | – | – | |
| Total | 904,699 | 100.00 | 150 | +24 | |
| Valid votes | 904,699 | 98.58 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 13,037 | 1.42 | |||
| Total votes | 917,736 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,351,183 | 67.92 | |||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver | |||||
| Constituency | Total seats | Seats won | |||||
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| H–FV | V | Ap | L | SD | RF | ||
| Akershus | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Aust-Agder | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Bergen | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Buskerud | 5 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| Finnmark | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Hedmark | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Hordaland | 8 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Kristiana | 7 | 5 | 2 | ||||
| Market towns of Akershus and Østfold | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| 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 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| Market towns of Telemark and Aust-Agder | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Market towns of Vestfold | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Møre | 7 | 5 | 2 | ||||
| Nord-Trøndelag | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Nordland | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Oppland | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |||
| Østfold | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Rogaland | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||
| Sogn og Fjordane | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||
| Sør-Trøndelag | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Telemark | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Troms | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Vest-Agder | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Vestfold | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 150 | 57 | 37 | 29 | 17 | 8 | 2 |
| Source: Norges Offisielle Statistikk | |||||||
| Newspaper | Party endorsed | Notes | |
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| Jarlsberg og Laurvigs Amtstidende (nn) | Conservative Party [3] | ||
| Free-minded Liberal Party | |||
| Folkets Dagblad | Labour Party [4] | ||
| Sunnmørsposten | Liberal Party [5] | ||
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