Turnout: 78.20%
About this election
Norway held parliamentary (Storting) elections on 11 September 2017. The Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) remained the largest single party with 27.37% of the vote and 49 of the 169 seats, but it was the non-socialist bloc that secured a majority (88 seats), allowing Conservative (Høyre) prime minister Erna Solberg to continue in office. The Conservatives took 25.04% and 45 seats, the right-wing Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet) 15.19% and 27, and the agrarian Centre Party (Senterpartiet) advanced to 10.32% and 19. Turnout was 78.2%. Solberg led a minority government of the Conservatives and the Progress Party, expanded to include the Liberals in 2018 and the Christian Democrats in 2019.
The 169-member Storting is elected for a fixed four-year term — Norway holds no snap elections — by party-list proportional representation using the modified Sainte-Laguë method across 19 constituencies. Of the seats, 150 are constituency seats and 19 are nationwide levelling seats (utjevningsmandater) reserved for parties that clear a 4% national threshold, which makes the overall allocation highly proportional.
Norwegian politics divides into a "red-green" left (Labour, the Centre Party and the Socialist Left, SV) and a non-socialist right (the Conservatives and the Progress Party), with the Liberals (Venstre), Christian Democrats (KrF), Greens (MDG) and Red (Rødt) on the flanks. The 2017 campaign turned on oil, taxation, immigration and the future of the welfare state.
In 2013 Erna Solberg had ousted Jens Stoltenberg's Labour-led red-green government after eight years in power; the 2017 result confirmed her centre-right project for a second term.
Norwegian Election Directorate (Valgdirektoratet) — valgresultat.no.