Norway - September 2025
Incumbent Labour Party wins parliamentary elections, Progress Party doubles seats
On 8 September, Norway held parliamentary elections to fill all 169 seats of the Storting, the country’s unicameral legislature. Jonas Gahr Støre’s incumbent Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiert) received the highest vote share with 28.0 per cent of the vote, securing 53 seats, and ran in the election with the support of the Red-Green alliance. The right-wing Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet) came second with 23.8 per cent of the vote (47 seats), more than doubling its support from the last elections in 2021. The Right (Høyre) came third with 14.6 per cent of the vote (24 seats), losing 12 seats and its position as the right-wing bloc’s leading opposition forceparty. The proportion of women in Parliament will be 40.2 per cent, down from 45.0 per cent in 2021. This parliamentary election saw the highest voter turnout since 1989, reaching 80.1 per cent, up from 77.2 per cent in the 2021 elections.
Sources: Valgdirektoratet, Statistics Norway, NRK, IPU Parline, International IDEA
