2005 Norwegian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 11 and 12 September 2005.[1] The result was a victory for the opposition centre-left Red-Green Coalition, which received 48.0% of the votes and won 87 out of 169 seats, dominated by the Labour Party's 61 seats. The three-party centre-right government coalition won 44 seats and the right wing Progress Party won 38, becoming the largest opposition party. Voter turnout was 77.1%, an increase of 2 percentage points compared to the 2001 elections.
The red-green coalition was the winner of the election and formed a majority government, with as prime minister, on 17 October 2005, as soon as a national budget for 2006 had been proposed by the old government.
Jens Stoltenberg
The obtained a result that brought it back into the position of "the largest Norwegian party, not just the largest of many middle-sized ones".
Labour Party
The obtained its best result ever, surpassing the Conservatives by a large margin and becoming almost as large as the parties in the Bondevik government combined.
Progress Party
The gained a substantial number of seats in its most successful election since 1965. The large number of additional seats won with only a modest gain in votes came partly as a result of passing the threshold of 4% of the votes required for a party to be allocated leveling seats to bring their representation into proportion to the overall national vote (as opposed to direct regional mandates allocated on the basis of number of votes in the specific region). Venstre got six direct regional mandates and four allocated additional mandates.
Liberal Party
from the website of the Norwegian parliament, stortinget.no, in Norwegian.
Complete, official results
. New York Times. September 13, 2005.
Leftist Coalition Seems to Be the Winner in Norway's Election
. Aftenposten. 13 September 2005.
Bondevik bows out
. Aftenposten. 13 September 2005.
Red-green alliance forges ahead
. Aftenposten. 5 September 2005.
Labour gains in new poll
. Aftenposten. 24 June 2005.
Labour stealing partner's votes
. Aftenposten. 20 June 2005.
Hagen won't back Bondevik
. Angus Reid Consultants. 12 June 2005.
Labour Down, Progress Party Surges in Norway
. Angus Reid Consultants. Retrieved 5 June 2005.
Norway — Red–Green Alliance could get majority
. Aftenposten. March 30, 2005.
Left wing alliance advances despite Labour retreat
. Aftenposten, August 26, 2005.
Labour soars in latest poll
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