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 1847.
[ 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 was increased from 102 to 105.
[ Voter turnout was 49.1%, although only 5.3% of the country's population was eligible to vote.][Nohlen & Stöver, p1439]
Results
References
{{Norwegian elections
1847
Events
January–March
* January 4 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the U.S. government.
* January 13 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends fighting in the Mexican–American War in California.
* January 16 – John C. Frémont ...
1847
Events
January–March
* January 4 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the U.S. government.
* January 13 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends fighting in the Mexican–American War in California.
* January 16 – John C. Frémont ...
1847 elections in Europe
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 ...