1891 Norwegian parliamentary election
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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 1891. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1438 The result was a victory for the
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, which won 63 of the 114 seats in the Storting. The Conservative Party and the
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contested the elections in an alliance, although separate lists were used in some constituencies.Nohlen & Stöver, p1447


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