1859 Norwegian parliamentary election

none Norway parliamentary 1856 Norwegian parliamentary election 1856 1862 Norwegian parliamentary election 1862 All 117 seats in the Storting 59 March–23 June 1859 47.68% Prime Minister Prime Minister after election Frederik Gottschalck Haxthausen Due Frederik Gottschalck Haxthausen Due 78,034 Parliamentary elections were held in Norway in 1859.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1437 978-3-8329-5609-7 As political parties were not officially established until 1884,Nohlen & Stöver, p1423 all those elected were independents.Storting composition 1814-1903 https://web.archive.org/web/20120326004630/http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/index.cfm?urlname=storting&lan=&UttakNr=102&MenuItem=N1_1&ChildItem=&State=collapse 2012-03-26 Norwegian Social Science Data Services The number of seats in the Storting was increased from 111 to 117. Voter turnout was 48%, although only 5% of the country's population was eligible to vote.Nohlen & Stöver, p1439 Results Of the 117 seats, 47 were won by farmers, sheriffs, church singers and teachers, 33 by civil servants and 37 by people with other professions. Bergsgård, Arne 1964 Norsk historie 1814-1880 8252113281 no Samlaget http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2014061108085 242 Independents 117 37203 78034 Nohlen & Stöver, NSSDS Aftermath During the parliamentary session the classical liberal Reformforeningen no was founded by 37 MPs. References Category:General elections in Norway Category:19th-century elections in Norway Norway Parliamentary