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Norwegian Parliamentary Election, 2005
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 11 and 12 September 2005.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1438 The result was a victory for the opposition centre-left Red-Green Coalition (Norway), Red-Green Coalition, which received 48.0% of the votes and won 87 out of 169 seats, dominated by the Norwegian Labour Party, Labour Party's 61 seats. The three-party centre-right government coalition won 44 seats and the right wing Progress Party (Norway), Progress Party won 38, becoming the largest opposition party. Voter turnout was 77.1%, an increase of 2 percentage points compared to the 2001 elections. Campaign Before the election, Prime Minister of Norway, Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik led a coalition government consisting of the Conservative Party of Norway, Conservative Party (38 seats in parliament), Christian Democratic Party of Norway, Christian People's Party (22 seats and supplied the prime minister) and the Venstre (Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storting
The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years based on party-list proportional representation in nineteen multi-seat constituencies. A member of Stortinget is known in Norwegian as a ''stortingsrepresentant'', literally "Storting representative". The assembly is led by a president and, since 2009, five vice presidents: the presidium. The members are allocated to twelve standing committees as well as four procedural committees. Three ombudsmen are directly subordinate to parliament: the Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee and the Office of the Auditor General. Parliamentarianism was established in 1884, with the Storting operating a form of "qualified unicameralism", in which it divided its membership into two internal chambers making Norway a de facto bicameral parli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
