Country: | Norway |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1862 Norwegian parliamentary election |
Previous Year: | 1862 |
Next Election: | 1868 Norwegian parliamentary election |
Next Year: | 1868 |
Seats For Election: | All 111 seats in the Storting |
Majority Seats: | 56 |
Election Date: | February–6 June 1865 |
Turnout: | 41.82% |
Prime Minister | |
Posttitle: | Prime Minister after election |
Before Election: | Frederik Gottschalck Haxthausen Due |
After Election: | Frederik Gottschalck Haxthausen Due |
Registered: | 80,888 |
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway in 1865.[1] As political parties were not officially established until 1884,[2] all those elected were independents.[3] The number of seats in the Storting remained at 111, the first time it had been unchanged since 1823.[3] Voter turnout was 42%, although only 5% of the country's population was eligible to vote.[4]
Of the 111 seats, 52 were won by farmers, sheriffs, church singers and teachers, 35 by civil servants and 24 by people with other professions.[5]