Norwegian parliamentary election, 2001
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A general election to the Storting, the parliament of Norway, was held on September 10, 2001. The Labour Party won a plurality of votes and seats, closely followed by the Conservative Party. The Labour Party was unable to form a government, and a centre-right coalition of the Conservative Party, the Christian People's Party and Liberal Party was formed, led by Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik of the Christian People's Party.

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Results

Party Vote Seats
% ± total ±
Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) 24.3 −10.7 43 −22
Conservative Party (Høyre) 21.2 +6.9 38 +15
Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet) 1 14.6 −0.7 26 +1
Socialist Left Party (Sosialistisk Venstreparti) 12.5 +6.5 23 +14
Christian People's Party (Kristelig Folkeparti) 12.4 −1.3 22 −3
Centre Party (Senterpartiet) 5.6 −2.4 10 −1
Liberal Party (Venstre) 3.9 −0.6 2 −4
Coastal Party (Kystpartiet) 2 1.7 +1.5 1 0
Others 3.8 0
Total 100% 165

Turnout was 75.1%.

Notes

  1. ^ Jan Simonsen, who was elected as a member of the Progress Party, later sat as an independent after being expelled from the party. He was later followed by Ursula Evje, who left the party in early 2005.
  2. ^ The Coastal Party was formally founded in 1999, but its leader, Steinar Bastesen, had won a seat at the previous election under the name Tverrpolitisk Folkevalgte.

Further reading

  • Madeley, John T. S. (April 2002). "Outside the Whale: Norway's Storting Election of 10 September 2001". West European Politics 25 (2): 212–222. 

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