| Country: | Norway |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 1953 Norwegian parliamentary election |
| Previous Year: | 1953 |
| Next Election: | 1961 Norwegian parliamentary election |
| Next Year: | 1961 |
| Seats For Election: | All 150 seats in the Storting |
| Majority Seats: | 76 |
| Election Date: | 7 October 1957 |
| Image1: | Einar Gerhardsen 1945.jpeg |
| Leader1: | Einar Gerhardsen |
| Party1: | Norwegian Labour Party |
| Last Election1: | 46.7%, 77 seats |
| Seats1: | 78 |
| Seat Change1: | 1 |
| Popular Vote1: | 865,675 |
| Percentage1: | 48.3% |
| Leader2: | Alv Kjøs |
| Party2: | Conservative Party (Norway) |
| Last Election2: | 18.9%, 27 seats |
| Seats2: | 29 |
| Seat Change2: | 2 |
| Popular Vote2: | 352,755 |
| Percentage2: | 21.7% |
| Image3: | Bent Røiseland.png |
| Leader3: | Bent Røiseland |
| Party3: | Liberal Party of Norway |
| Last Election3: | 10.0%, 15 seats |
| Seats3: | 15 |
| Seat Change3: | 0 |
| Popular Vote3: | 177,291 |
| Percentage3: | 10.5% |
| Image4: | Per Borten (1964, Knudsens fotosenter).jpg |
| Leader4: | Per Borten |
| Party4: | Farmers' |
| Last Election4: | 9.3%, 14 seats, |
| Seats4: | 15 |
| Seat Change4: | 1 |
| Popular Vote4: | 200,237 |
| Percentage4: | 9.9% |
| Leader5: | Einar Hareide |
| Party5: | Christian Democratic Party (Norway) |
| Last Election5: | 10.5%, 14 seats |
| Seats5: | 12 |
| Seat Change5: | 2 |
| Popular Vote5: | 183,243 |
| Percentage5: | 10.2% |
| Image6: | Emil Løvlien.jpg |
| Leader6: | Emil Løvlien |
| Party6: | Communist Party of Norway |
| Last Election6: | 5.1%, 3 seats |
| Seats6: | 1 |
| Seat Change6: | 2 |
| Popular Vote6: | 60,060 |
| Percentage6: | 3.4% |
| Prime Minister | |
| Posttitle: | Prime Minister after election |
| Before Election: | Einar Gerhardsen |
| Before Party: | Norwegian Labour Party |
| After Election: | Einar Gerhardsen |
| After Party: | Norwegian Labour Party |
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 7 October 1957.[1] The result was a victory for the Labour Party, which won 78 of the 150 seats in the Storting. As a result, the Gerhardsen government continued in office.
This was the last time a single party won a majority of seats on its own in a Norwegian election.
| width=200px | Newspaper | Party endorsed | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norwegian: [[Moss Avis]] | width=150px | Conservative Party[2] | ||
| Cohort | Percentage of cohort voting for | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=50px | Ap | width=50px | H | width=50px | V | width=50px | KrF | width=50px | Sp | width=50px | Others |
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| Total vote | 48.3% | 21.7% | 10.5% | 10.2% | 9.9% | ||||||
| Gender | |||||||||||
| Female | 47.8% | 15.7% | 9.6% | 13.2% | 9.6% | ||||||
| Male | 48.9% | 17.8% | 9.6% | 7.4% | 7.7% | ||||||
| Age | |||||||||||
| 18–30 years old | 58.5% | 17.1% | 8.3% | 5.7% | 5.7% | ||||||
| 30-59 years old | 48.5% | 15.5% | 10.3% | 9.5% | 8.8% | ||||||
| 60 years old and older | 40.7% | 20.3% | 8.3% | 15.8% | 10.8% | ||||||
| Work | |||||||||||
| Low income | 47.2% | 13.1% | 7.6% | 14% | 13.1% | ||||||
| Average income | 59.6% | 10.1% | 8.7% | 8.7% | 7% | ||||||
| High income | 38% | 28.7% | 12.3% | 7.6% | 5.3% | ||||||
| Education | |||||||||||
| Primary school | 57.8% | 9.5% | 8.1% | 10.5% | 7.4% | ||||||
| High school | 30.7% | 24.9% | 13.6% | 10% | 13.9% | ||||||
| University/college | 16.4% | 62.7% | 10.4% | 9% | 1.5% | ||||||
| Source: Norwegian Institute for Social Research[3] [4] [5] | -- auto-translated from Norwegian by Module:CS1 translator --> | ||||||||||
| Constituency | Total seats | Seats won | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ap | H | V | B | KrF | K | ||
| Akershus | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Aust-Agder | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Bergen | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Buskerud | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Finnmark | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Hedmark | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Hordaland | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| Møre og Romsdal | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| Nord-Trøndelag | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Nordland | 12 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Oppland | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Oslo | 13 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Østfold | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Rogaland | 10 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| 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 | 78 | 29 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 1 |
| align=left colspan="8" | Source: Norges Offisielle Statistikk | ||||||