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Norwegian Elections of 1927 and the Labor Government

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Paul Knaplund
Paul Knaplund*
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin
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The Labor party of Norway, organized in January, 1927, as a result of a fusion of the Social Democrats with the former Labor party, made sweeping gains in the elections to the Storting in October last and established itself as the strongest party in the country. Gains were made also by the conservative Agrarian, or Farmer's, party; while the old Conservative party suffered heavy losses; and, in proportion to its strength, the losses of the Communists were even greater. The Radical, or Left, party, which has steadily lost ground since the war, experienced a further decline.

The following tables show the votes polled by the leading parties in the elections of 1927 and 1924, and the number of their representatives in the Storting after these elections:

Type
Foreign Governments and Politics
Information
American Political Science Review , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , May 1928 , pp. 413 - 416
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1928

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References

1 Figures for the 1927 election are based on information supplied by the press bureau of the Norwegian Foreign Office.

2 Figures for the 1924 and earlier elections are taken from Statistisk Aarbok for Kongeriket Norge, 1926 og 1927 (Oslo, 1927), 161Google Scholar.

3 This total represents the combined vote of the Social Democratic and old Labor parties.