1862 Norwegian parliamentary election

none Norway parliamentary 1859 Norwegian parliamentary election 1859 1865 Norwegian parliamentary election 1865 All 111 seats in the Storting 56 January–4 July 1862 44.59% Prime Minister Prime Minister after election Frederik Gottschalck Haxthausen Due Frederik Gottschalck Haxthausen Due 78,830 Parliamentary elections were held in Norway in 1862.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 reduced from 117 to 111. Voter turnout was 45%, although only 5% of the country's population was eligible to vote.Nohlen & Stöver, p1439 Results Of the 111 seats, 47 were won by farmers, sheriffs, church singers and teachers, 37 by civil servants and 26 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 35148 78830 Nohlen & Stöver, NSSDS References Category:General elections in Norway Category:19th-century elections in Norway Norway Parliamentary