Parliamentary elections were held in
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
in 1859.
[ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1437 ] As political parties were not officially established until 1884, all those elected were independents.
[Storting composition 1814-1903]
Norwegian Social Science Data Services The number of seats in the
Storting (Norwegian Parliament) was increased from 111 to 117.
[ Voter turnout was 47.7%, although only 4.9% of the country's population was eligible to vote.][Nohlen & Stöver, p1439]
Results
References
{{Norwegian elections
General elections in Norway
19th-century elections in Norway
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
Parliamentary
A parliamentary system, or parliamentarian democracy, is a system of democratic governance of a state (or subordinate entity) where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the support ("confidence") of the ...