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Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 8 October 1945, [1] the first following World War II and the end of the German occupation. The result was a victory for the Labour Party, which won 76 of the 150 seats in the Storting, the first time a party had won a majority since the 1915 elections.
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Labour Party | 609,348 | 41.03 | 76 | +6 | |
| Conservative Party | 252,608 | 17.01 | 25 | –11 | |
| Liberal Party | 204,852 | 13.79 | 20 | –3 | |
| Communist Party | 176,535 | 11.89 | 11 | +11 | |
| Farmers' Party | 119,362 | 8.04 | 10 | –8 | |
| Christian Democratic Party | 117,813 | 7.93 | 8 | +6 | |
| New Norway | 1,845 | 0.12 | 0 | –1 | |
| Other parties | 2,809 | 0.19 | 0 | – | |
| Wild votes | 53 | 0.00 | – | – | |
| Total | 1,485,225 | 100.00 | 150 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 1,485,225 | 99.13 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 12,969 | 0.87 | |||
| Total votes | 1,498,194 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,961,977 | 76.36 | |||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver | |||||
| Constituency | Total seats | Seats won | |||||
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| Ap | H | V | K | B | KrF | ||
| Akershus | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Aust-Agder | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Bergen | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Buskerud | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Finnmark | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Hedmark | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Hordaland | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Market towns of Akershus and Østfold | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Market towns of Buskerud | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Market towns of Hedmark and Oppland | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Market towns of Møre og Romsdal | 3 | 2 | 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 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Market towns of Vestfold | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Møre og Romsdal | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Nord-Trøndelag | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Nordland | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Oppland | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Oslo | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Østfold | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Rogaland | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Sogn og Fjordane | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Sør-Trøndelag | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Telemark | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Troms | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| Vest-Agder | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Vestfold | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Total | 150 | 76 | 25 | 20 | 11 | 10 | 8 |
| Source: Norges Offisielle Statistikk | |||||||
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