Country: | Norway |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1856 Norwegian parliamentary election |
Previous Year: | 1856 |
Next Election: | 1862 Norwegian parliamentary election |
Next Year: | 1862 |
Seats For Election: | All 117 seats in the Storting |
Majority Seats: | 59 |
Election Date: | March–23 June 1859 |
Turnout: | 47.68% |
Prime Minister | |
Posttitle: | Prime Minister after election |
Before Election: | Frederik Gottschalck Haxthausen Due |
After Election: | Frederik Gottschalck Haxthausen Due |
Registered: | 78,034 |
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway in 1859.[1] As political parties were not officially established until 1884,[2] all those elected were independents.[3] The number of seats in the Storting was increased from 111 to 117.[3] Voter turnout was 48%, although only 5% of the country's population was eligible to vote.[4]
Of the 117 seats, 47 were won by farmers, sheriffs, church singers and teachers, 33 by civil servants and 37 by people with other professions.[5]
During the parliamentary session the classical liberal was founded by 37 MPs.