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Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 19 October 1936, [1] the last before World War II and the German invasion of Norway. The result was a victory for the Labour Party, which won 70 of the 150 seats in the Storting. [2]
During the election campaign, the conservative and liberal parties ran on the slogan "A free people in a free Norway." [2] They argued that a Labour Party victory would lead to terrorism, dictatorship, and Marxism. [2] A prominent controversial topic during the election campaign was the decision of the Labour government to allow Leon Trotsky to take up a domicile in Norway in 1935. [2]
Party | Original slogan | English translation | |
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Labour Party | "Trygge kår for barn og hjem" | ||
Conservative Party | |||
Liberal Party | |||
Farmer's Party | |||
Nasjonal Samling | |||
Communist Party of Norway | |||
Free-minded People's Party | |||
Society Party | |||
Christian Democratic Party | |||
Radical People's Party | |||
Sources: [3] |
Newspaper | Party endorsed | |
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Adresseavisen | Conservative Party [4] |
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
Labour Party | 618,616 | 42.51 | 70 | +1 | |
Conservative Party–Free-minded People's Party [lower-alpha 1] | 310,324 | 21.32 | 36 | +6 | |
Liberal Party | 232,784 | 16.00 | 23 | –1 | |
Farmers' Party | 168,038 | 11.55 | 18 | –5 | |
Society Party | 45,109 | 3.10 | 1 | 0 | |
Nasjonal Samling | 26,577 | 1.83 | 0 | 0 | |
Christian Democratic Party | 19,612 | 1.35 | 2 | +1 | |
Free-minded People's Party–Fatherland League [lower-alpha 1] | 19,236 | 1.32 | 0 | 0 | |
Radical People's Party | 6,407 | 0.44 | 0 | –1 | |
Communist Party | 4,376 | 0.30 | 0 | 0 | |
Other parties | 4,132 | 0.28 | 0 | – | |
Wild votes | 27 | 0.00 | – | – | |
Total | 1,455,238 | 100.00 | 150 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 1,455,238 | 99.44 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 8,230 | 0.56 | |||
Total votes | 1,463,468 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 1,741,905 | 84.02 | |||
Source: Nohlen & Stöver |
Constituency | Total seats | Seats won | |||||
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Ap | H–FV | V | B | KrF | Sfp | ||
Akershus | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||
Aust-Agder | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Bergen | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||
Buskerud | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
Finnmark | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
Hedmark | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |||
Hordaland | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||
Market towns of Vestfold | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Møre | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | |||
Nord-Trøndelag | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||
Nordland | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Oppland | 6 | 4 | 2 | ||||
Oslo | 7 | 4 | 3 | ||||
Østfold | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||
Rogaland | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
Sogn og Fjordane | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
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 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Total | 150 | 70 | 36 | 23 | 18 | 2 | 1 |
Source: Norges Offisielle Statistikk |
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