Turnout: 77.20%
About this election
The parliamentary election of 13 September 2021 produced a decisive shift to the left. The Labour Party won 26.25% and 48 seats, and together with the Centre Party (13.50%, 28 seats) and the Socialist Left (7.64%, 13 seats) the red-green bloc commanded a clear Storting majority. The Conservatives fell to 20.35% and 36 seats and the Progress Party to 11.61% and 21. The Red Party broke through to 4.72% and 8 seats, and the regional list Patient Focus (Pasientfokus) won a single seat in Finnmark. Turnout was 77.2%. Labour leader Jonas Gahr Støre became prime minister, forming a minority coalition with the Centre Party that relied on the Socialist Left for support.
The Storting's 169 members are elected for a fixed four-year term by party-list proportional representation (modified Sainte-Laguë) across 19 constituencies, with 150 constituency seats plus 19 levelling seats allocated to parties above the 4% national threshold.
The campaign was dominated by climate policy and the future of Norway's oil and gas industry, by rising inequality, and by the Centre Party's revolt against the centralisation of services and the 2020 regional reform. SV, Red and the Greens pulled the agenda leftward and toward faster decarbonisation.
In 2017 Erna Solberg's non-socialist bloc had been re-elected; by 2021 voter fatigue after eight years of Conservative-led government, together with the Centre Party's rural surge, ended her tenure.
Norwegian Election Directorate (Valgdirektoratet) — valgresultat.no.