1850 Norwegian parliamentary election

none Norway parliamentary 1847 Norwegian parliamentary election 1847 1853 Norwegian parliamentary election 1853 All 106 seats in the Storting 54 May–21 October 1850 50.28% Prime Minister Prime Minister after election Frederik Gottschalck Haxthausen Due Frederik Gottschalck Haxthausen Due 73,125 Parliamentary elections were held in Norway in 1850.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 105 to 106. Voter turnout was 50%, although only 5% of the country's population was eligible to vote.Nohlen & Stöver, p1439 Results Of the 106 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 https://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2014061108085 242 Independents 106 36770 73125 Nohlen & Stöver, NSSDS References Category:General elections in Norway Category:19th-century elections in Norway Norway Parliamentary