1847 Norwegian parliamentary election

none Norway parliamentary 1844 Norwegian parliamentary election 1844 1850 Norwegian parliamentary election 1850 All 105 seats in the Storting 53 May–30 September 1847 49.07% Prime Minister Prime Minister after election Frederik Gottschalck Haxthausen Due Frederik Gottschalck Haxthausen Due 71,853 Parliamentary elections were held in Norway in 1847.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 102 to 105. Voter turnout was 49%, although only 5% of the country's population was eligible to vote.Nohlen & Stöver, p1439 Results Of the 105 seats, 45 were won by civil servants, 39 by farmers, sheriffs, church singers and teachers and 21 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 105 35258 71853 Nohlen & Stöver, NSSDS References Category:General elections in Norway Category:19th-century elections in Norway Norway Parliamentary