Norwegian Storting Election 2009

[freek]

What's the threshold - 2%?

There is no threshold. Norway is divided in 19 multi-member constituencies (each county is a constituency). A constituency has a fixed number of seats, between 3 and 16 seats, based on population and geographic area. In total there are 150 constituency seats.

In addition there are 19 levelling seats (one in each county), distributed on a nationwide basis to parties that received less constituency seats than their nationwide percentage would suggest. These seats do have a threshold, of 4% of the votes nationwide.

[freek]

Okay, so a 4% threshold unless your strongholds are urban or really pronounced.

Yes. For example the Kyst (Coast) Party, that won 1 of the 10 seats in the Nordland county in 1997 and 2001, despite having 0.4% and 1.7% of the votes on a national level.

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Modified Sainte-Laguë (as in Sweden). The divisor range is 1.4, 3, 5, 7, ... Normal Sainte-Laguë uses 1, 3, 5, 7,...

[freek]

Note that I didn't see a detailed breakdown of minors. If one party among them took about a third or more of the "other" vote, it wins one seat.

http://www.regjeringen.no/krd/html/valg2009/bs5.html. A government web site which lists results for every party. % counted = 99.9%, because "a few votes" from Kautokeino (Finnmark) still have to be counted. I assume some ballots were eaten by a reindeer.

Largest minor parties:

Red: 36211 votes
PiratePensioners: 11897
Greens 9287
Coast 5343
Christian Unity 4901
Democrats 2290
11 parties with <700 votes (total 2450 votes)

[freek]

Note that I didn't see a detailed breakdown of minors. If one party among them took about a third or more of the "other" vote, it wins one seat.

http://www.regjeringen.no/krd/html/valg2009/bs5.html. A government web site which lists results for every party. % counted = 99.9%, because "a few votes" from Kautokeino (Finnmark) still have to be counted. I assume some ballots were eaten by a reindeer.

Largest minor parties:

Red: 36211 votes
Pirate: 11897
Greens 9287
Coast 5343
Christian Unity 4901
Democrats 2290
11 parties with <700 votes (total 2450 votes)

PP is Pensioners Party, not Pirates

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