1856 Norwegian parliamentary election

none Norway parliamentary 1853 Norwegian parliamentary election 1853 1859 Norwegian parliamentary election 1859 All 111 seats in the Storting 56 May–3 November 1856 44.08% Prime Minister Prime Minister after election Frederik Gottschalck Haxthausen Due Frederik Gottschalck Haxthausen Due 75,202 Parliamentary elections were held in Norway in 1856.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 107 to 111. Voter turnout was 44%, although only 5% of the country's population was eligible to vote.Nohlen & Stöver, p1439 Results Of the 111 seats, 42 were won by farmers, sheriffs, church singers and teachers, 39 by civil servants and 30 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 111 33150 75202 Nohlen & Stöver, NSSDS References Category:General elections in Norway Category:19th-century elections in Norway Norway Parliamentary