2013 Norwegian Parliamentary Election Monday Sep 9,2013

A parliamentary election was held in Norway on Sep 9, 2013

Elections in Norway are held on a Monday in September, usually the second or third Monday, as determined by the king


Election System

• The parliament, the Storting has 169 members elected for a 4- year term (during which it may not be dissolved) by the proportional representation in multi-seat constituencies

• 85 Seats are required for a majority

• Norway has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments and/or minority cabinets.

• In Norway, elections are held every second year, alternating between elections for the Parliament and local elections, both of which are held every four years.

• Suffrage is universal from the year a person turns 18 years old

• Only Norwegian citizens can vote in the Parliamentary elections, but foreigners who have lived in Norway for three years continuously can vote in the local elections

• The King of Norway is not considered a "citizen" and cannot vote

• The Queen and Crown Prince are eligible to vote but traditionally do not do so

The election will be -
4th for Incumbent Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg (Labour Party)who was defeated in the 2001 Parliamentary Election,but won both the 2005 and 2009 Parliamentary Election

3rd election for the Red-Green Coalition which was formed in 2005

Political Parties Participating in 2013 Norwegian Parliamentary Election are -

• Labour Party led by Jens Stoltenberg was the largest party in the 2009–2013 Storting(Norway Parliament) and the majority party in Stoltenberg’s Second Cabinet. They got 35.4% of the votes and won 64 seats in the 2009 election

• Progress Party led by Siv Jensen is the largest opposition party in the current Storting

• Conservative Party led by Erna Solberg is the second-largest opposition party in the current Storting

• Socialist Left Party led by Audun Lysbakken is the second-largest Govt party

• Centre Party led by Liv Signe Navarsete is the third-largest party in the Current Govt

• Christian Democratic Party led by Knut Arild Hareide has10 members in  the current Storting

• Liberal Party  led by Trine Skei Grande is a centrist, green and liberal party which earned 3.9% of the votes in the 2009 elections and were represented with 2 seats in parliament

 2013 Norwegian Parliamentary Election Results

• Norway's Labour Party has conceded defeat in the nation's general election, as the Conservative Party and its right-wing allies swept to power after an eight-year hiatus

• The bloc of four right-wing parties had won 96 of 169 seats in parliament. 

• Incumbent PM Jens Stoltenberg's 3-party coalition controlled had won 72 seats 

• One seat won by Green Party

Political Party	% of Votes	No.of Seats
Labour Party	30.8	55
Conservative Party	28.6	48
Progress Party	16.4	29
Center Party	5.6	10
Christian Democratic Party	5.5	10
Liberal Party	5.2	09
Socialist Left Party	4.1	07
Green Party	2.8	01
Total		169

   
Jens Stoltenberg, the incumbent Labour Party prime minister, conceded defeat late on Monday Sep 9,2013, while his challenger, Conservative leader Erna Solberg, hailed "a historic election win"

Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg casts his ballot in the parliamentary election at a polling station in Oslo, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013.  

Leader of the Conservative Party in Norway, Erna Solberg, casts her vote in the general election Monday Sept. 9, 2013 at the polling station at Apeltun School in Bergen, western Norway

Erna Solberg, a former girl scout leader who has overcome dyslexia will become Norway's second female prime minister, as well as its first Conservative prime minister since 1990

Erna Solberg said her party will gather on Friday Sep 13,2013 to appoint official negotiators and the new cabinet will take office after the outgoing government presents the 2014 budget on October 14

The elections represent a defeat for Mr Stoltenberg after two terms in office for the Labour prime minister even though his party topped the polls as it has done in every parliamentary vote for 89 years


Chairman of the Norwegian Conservative Party, Erna Solberg, right, and chairman of the Progress Party, Siv Jensen attend a media event in Sunnvollen, Norway to announce that they have agreed on a platform to form a new government in Norway