Country: | Norway |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1927 Norwegian parliamentary election |
Previous Year: | 1927 |
Next Election: | 1933 Norwegian parliamentary election |
Next Year: | 1933 |
Seats For Election: | All 150 seats in the Storting |
Majority Seats: | 76 |
Election Date: | 20 October 1930 |
Image1: | Torp.PNG |
Leader1: | Oscar Torp |
Party1: | Labour Party (Norway) |
Last Election1: | 36.8%, 59 seats |
Seats1: | 47 |
Seat Change1: | 12 |
Popular Vote1: | 374,854 |
Percentage1: | 31.4% |
Leader2: | C. J. Hambro |
Party2: | Conservative Party (Norway) |
Last Election2: | 24.0%, 29 seats |
Seats2: | 39 |
Seat Change2: | 10 |
Popular Vote2: | 327,731 (H+FV) |
Percentage2: | 27.4% (H+FV) |
Image3: | Johan Ludwig Mowinckel.jpg |
Leader3: | Johan Ludwig Mowinckel |
Party3: | Liberal Party (Norway) |
Last Election3: | 17.3%, 30 seats |
Seats3: | 33 |
Seat Change3: | 3 |
Popular Vote3: | 241,355 |
Percentage3: | 20.2% |
Image4: | Jens Hundseid.jpeg |
Leader4: | Jens Hundseid |
Party4: | Farmers' Party (Norway) |
Last Election4: | 14.9%, 26 seats |
Seats4: | 25 |
Seat Change4: | 1 |
Popular Vote4: | 190,220 |
Percentage4: | 15.9% |
Image5: | Anton Wilhelm Brøgger.jpg |
Leader5: | Anton Wilhelm Brøgger |
Party5: | Free-minded Liberal Party |
Seats5: | 5 |
Seat Change5: | 3 |
Percentage5: | 2.6%/— |
Image6: | Alf Mjøen.jpg |
Party6: | Radical People's Party (Norway) |
Last Election6: | 1.3%, 1 seat |
Seats6: | 1 |
Popular Vote6: | 9,228 |
Percentage6: | 0.8% |
Prime Minister | |
Posttitle: | Prime Minister after election |
Before Election: | Johan Ludwig Mowinckel |
Before Party: | Liberal Party (Norway) |
After Election: | Johan Ludwig Mowinckel |
After Party: | Liberal Party (Norway) |
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 20 October 1930.[1] The Labour Party won the most seats (47 of the 150 seats) in the Storting.[2]
During the election, the Labour Party advocated for socialist policies whereas the Conservative, Liberal and Agrarian parties ran in opposition to the Labour Party.
Newspaper | Party endorsed | |||
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Finnmarksposten | bgcolor= | Conservative Party[3] | ||
bgcolor= | Free-minded Liberal Party | |||
Vestfinnmark Arbeiderblad | bgcolor= | Labour Party[4] | ||
Folketanken | bgcolor= | Liberal Party[5] | ||
Østerdal Arbeiderblad | bgcolor= | Labour Party[6] | ||
Folkeviljen | bgcolor= | Labour Party[7] |
Constituency | Total seats | Seats won | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ap | H–FV | V | B | RF | |||
Akershus | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | |||
Aust-Agder | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Bergen | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
Buskerud | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
Finnmark | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Hedmark | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |||
Hordaland | 8 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | ||
Market towns of Akershus and Østfold | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Market towns of Buskerud | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
Market towns of Hedmark and Oppland | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||
Market towns of Møre | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Market towns of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
Market towns of Sør-Trøndelag and Nord-Trøndelag | 5 | 1 | 4 | ||||
Market towns of Telemark and Aust-Agder | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | |||
Market towns of Vestfold | 4 | 1 | 3 | ||||
Møre | 7 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | ||
Nord-Trøndelag | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||
Nordland | 8 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||
Oppland | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |||
Oslo | 7 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Østfold | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||
Rogaland | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
Sogn og Fjordane | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
Sør-Trøndelag | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
Telemark | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
Troms | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Vest-Agder | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
Vestfold | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
Total | 150 | 47 | 44 | 33 | 25 | 1 | |
Source: Norges Offisielle Statistikk |