1838 Norwegian parliamentary election

none Norway parliamentary 1835 Norwegian parliamentary election 1835 1841 Norwegian parliamentary election 1841 All 99 seats in the Storting 50 June–8 November 1838 50.17% Prime Minister Prime Minister after election Severin Løvenskiold Severin Løvenskiold 69,737 Parliamentary elections were held in Norway in 1838.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 96 to 99. Voter turnout was 50.2%, although only 6% of the country's population was eligible to vote.Nohlen & Stöver, p1439 Results Of the 99 seats, 45 were won by civil servants, 35 by farmers, sheriffs, church singers and teachers and 19 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 99 34989 69737 Nohlen & Stöver, NSSDS References Category:General elections in Norway Category:19th-century elections in Norway Norway Parliamentary