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Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 12 October 1953. [1] The result was a victory for the Labour Party, which won 77 of the 150 seats in the Storting.
Newspaper | Party endorsed | |
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Tønsbergs Blad | Conservative Party [2] |
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
Labour Party | 830,448 | 46.66 | 77 | –8 | |
Conservative Party | 327,971 | 18.43 | 26 | +4 | |
Christian Democratic Party | 186,627 | 10.49 | 14 | +5 | |
Liberal Party | 177,662 | 9.98 | 15 | –6 | |
Farmers' Party | 157,018 | 8.82 | 14 | +2 | |
Communist Party | 90,422 | 5.08 | 3 | +3 | |
Farmers–Conservatives [lower-alpha 1] | 9,661 | 0.54 | 1 | – | |
Wild votes | 22 | 0.00 | – | – | |
Total | 1,779,831 | 100.00 | 150 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 1,779,831 | 99.41 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 10,500 | 0.59 | |||
Total votes | 1,790,331 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 2,256,799 | 79.33 | |||
Source: Nohlen & Stöver |
Constituency | Total seats | Seats won | |||||
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Ap | H | V | KrF | B | K | ||
Akershus | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||
Aust-Agder | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
Bergen | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
Buskerud | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||
Finnmark | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
Hedmark | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Hordaland | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
Møre og Romsdal | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
Nord-Trøndelag | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||
Nordland | 12 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Oppland | 7 | 5 | 2 | ||||
Oslo | 13 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Østfold | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Rogaland | 10 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
Sogn og Fjordane | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sør-Trøndelag | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Telemark | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||
Troms | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||
Vest-Agder | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Vestfold | 7 | 4 | 3 | ||||
Total | 150 | 77 | 27 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 3 |
Source: Norges Offisielle Statistikk |
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