2025 Norwegian parliamentary election
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The 2025 Norwegian parliamentary election took place on 8 September 2025. All 169 seats in the Storting were up for election.
The current government of the Labour Party (Ap), led by Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, was re-elected. It has governed as a minority government since 2021, first in a coalition with the Centre Party until it withdrew from the government in 2025, and then as a single-party government.
The parties
The list below contains the parties elected to the Storting in the 2021 parliamentary election and their current seat tallies.
- Labour Party – 48 seats
- Conservative Party – 36 seats
- Progress Party – 21 seats
- Centre Party – 19 seats
- Socialist Left Party – 13 seats
- Red Party – 8 seats
- Liberal Party – 8 seats
- Green Party – 3 seats
- Christian Democrats – 3 seats
Opinion polling
Exit polling
Exit polling forecasted that the Labour Party had won the election and that Jonas Gahr Støre would remain as Prime Minister. It showed that the Conservative Party had fallen to third place with the worst election result in 20 years while the Progress Party had overtaken them to be the second-largest party in the Storting.[1]
Results
The red-green bloc was projected to win 87 seats, allowing Støre to continue as Prime Minister.[2][3][4][5]
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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| Labour Party | 867,447 | 28.18 | 53 | +5 | |
| Progress Party | 734,779 | 23.87 | 48 | +27 | |
| Conservative Party | 450,637 | 14.64 | 24 | –12 | |
| Centre Party | 173,305 | 5.63 | 9 | –19 | |
| Socialist Left | 169,708 | 5.51 | 9 | –4 | |
| Red Party | 163,783 | 5.32 | 9 | +1 | |
| Green Party | 143,392 | 4.66 | 7 | +4 | |
| Christian Democratic Party | 129,885 | 4.22 | 7 | +4 | |
| Liberal Party | 112,346 | 3.65 | 3 | –5 | |
| Pensioners' Party | 25,988 | 0.84 | 0 | 0 | |
| Norway Democrats | 22,281 | 0.72 | 0 | 0 | |
| Generation Party | 20,447 | 0.66 | 0 | 0 | |
| Industry and Business Party | 18,010 | 0.58 | 0 | 0 | |
| Konservativt | 14,950 | 0.49 | 0 | 0 | |
| Peace and Justice | 9,089 | 0.30 | 0 | New | |
| Partiet Sentrum | 5,404 | 0.18 | 0 | 0 | |
| DNI Party | 5,083 | 0.17 | 0 | New | |
| Welfare and Innovation Party | 5,041 | 0.16 | 0 | 0 | |
| Patient Focus | 4,099 | 0.13 | 0 | –1 | |
| Save Ullevål Hospital | 2,352 | 0.08 | 0 | New | |
| Loneliness Party | 703 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
| Communist Party of Norway | 48 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 3,078,777 | 100.00 | 169 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 3,078,777 | 99.11 | |||
| Invalid votes | 3,271 | 0.11 | |||
| Blank votes | 24,402 | 0.79 | |||
| Total votes | 3,106,450 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 4,055,497 | 76.60 | |||
| Source: valgresultat.no (~99.5% counted) | |||||
References
- ↑ Bryant, Miranda; correspondent, Miranda Bryant Nordic (2025-09-08). "Norway's Labour party holds narrow lead in early election results". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-09-08.
{{cite news}}:|last2=has generic name (help) - ↑ Bryant, Miranda; Miranda (8 September 2025). "Norway's Labour party wins election after seeing off populist surge" – via The Guardian.
- ↑ "Norway's Ruling Labor Party on Track for Election Victory". bloomberg.com.
- ↑ "Norway's ruling Labour holds narrow election lead".
- ↑ "Valgresultat 2025". NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2025-09-09.