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Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 21 October 1924. [1] The result was a victory for the Conservative Party-Liberal Left Party alliance, which won 54 of the 150 seats in the Storting. Until 2024, this was the last election in which the Labour Party did not receive the most votes or the most seats in the Storting of participating parties.
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Conservative Party | 316,846 | 32.53 | 43 | +1 | |
| Free-minded Liberal Party | 11 | –4 | |||
| Liberal Party | 180,979 | 18.58 | 34 | –3 | |
| Labour Party | 179,567 | 18.44 | 24 | –5 | |
| Farmers' Party | 131,706 | 13.52 | 22 | +5 | |
| Social Democratic Labour Party | 85,743 | 8.80 | 8 | 0 | |
| Communist Party | 59,401 | 6.10 | 6 | New | |
| Radical People's Party | 17,144 | 1.76 | 2 | 0 | |
| Other parties | 2,493 | 0.26 | 0 | – | |
| Wild votes | 62 | 0.01 | – | – | |
| Total | 973,941 | 100.00 | 150 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 973,941 | 98.66 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 13,244 | 1.34 | |||
| Total votes | 987,185 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,412,441 | 69.89 | |||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver | |||||
| Constituency | Total seats | Seats won | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H–FV | V | Ap | B | Sd | K | RF | ||
| Akershus | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Aust-Agder | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Bergen | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Buskerud | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Finnmark | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Hedmark | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Hordaland | 8 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Kristiana | 7 | 4 | 3 | |||||
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Market towns of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Market towns of Sør-Trøndelag and Nord-Trøndelag | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 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 | 1 | 4 | 2 | ||||
| Nord-Trøndelag | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Nordland | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Oppland | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| Østfold | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Rogaland | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Sogn og Fjordane | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Sør-Trøndelag | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Telemark | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Troms | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Vest-Agder | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Vestfold | 4 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Total | 150 | 54 | 34 | 24 | 22 | 8 | 6 | 2 |
| Source: Norges Offisielle Statistikk | ||||||||
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