1853 Norwegian parliamentary election

none Norway parliamentary 1850 Norwegian parliamentary election 1850 1856 Norwegian parliamentary election 1856 All 107 seats in the Storting 54 Mai–14 November 1853 45.45% Prime Minister Prime Minister after election Frederik Gottschalck Haxthausen Due Frederik Gottschalck Haxthausen Due 73,422 Parliamentary elections were held in Norway in 1853.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 106 to 107. Voter turnout was 45%, although only 5% of the country's population was eligible to vote.Nohlen & Stöver, p1439 Results Of the 107 seats, 44 were won by farmers, sheriffs, church singers and teachers, 41 by civil servants and 22 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 107 33370 73422 Nohlen & Stöver, NSSDS References Category:General elections in Norway Category:19th-century elections in Norway Norway Parliamentary