Turnout: 80.10%
About this election
Norway's parliamentary election of 8 September 2025 was a striking comeback for the governing Labour Party, which rose to 28.02% and 53 seats — its strongest result in years — allowing Jonas Gahr Støre to remain prime minister at the head of a Labour minority government. The night's other story was the surge of the Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet) under Sylvi Listhaug to a record 23.85% and 47 seats, overtaking the Conservatives, who collapsed to 14.65% and 24. The Socialist Left (5.63%, 9), Centre Party (5.59%, 9), Red (5.32%, 9), Greens (4.74%, 8) and Christian Democrats (4.20%, 7) followed, with the Liberals on 3.69% and 3. The red-green bloc retained a parliamentary majority. Turnout reached 80.1%, the highest in a Norwegian parliamentary election since 1989.
The 169-seat Storting is elected for a fixed four-year term by party-list proportional representation (modified Sainte-Laguë) in 19 constituencies, combining 150 constituency seats with 19 nationwide levelling seats for parties clearing the 4% threshold.
The campaign was fought over the cost-of-living crisis, high electricity prices, the wealth tax and Norway's ties to the EU energy market. Labour's recovery was widely credited to the "Jens effect" — the return of former prime minister and NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg as finance minister in early 2025 — while the Centre Party slumped after leaving the government in January 2025 over an EU energy directive.
In 2021 the red-green parties had won a majority and Støre formed a Labour–Centre coalition; by 2025 the Centre Party had departed and Labour governed alone, but the left bloc held.
Norwegian Election Directorate (Valgdirektoratet) — valgresultat.no.