Norways red-green parties won popular vote, lost election

[muriel_volestrangler]

With 95.1 percent of votes counted, the conservative parties have 1,408,592 votes, while the red-green alliance has gained 1,416,085, reports broadcaster NRK.

Provided the Green Party – which says it is not loyal to either bloc, but will refuse to work with the populist Progress Party – is included in the red-green numbers, the totals show a narrow win for that side of the aisle in terms of raw voting numbers.

But Norway’s mandate system gave Prime Minister Erna Solberg an election victory by 89 seats to 80 on Monday night.

Votes in rural regions such as Finnmark or Sogn og Fjordane can carry more weight in the final calculation than those from Oslo, with the number of seats awarded in each region (fylke) used to decide parliamentary majority.

https://www.thelocal.no/20170912/norways-red-green-parties-won-popular-vote-lost-election

Sounds familiar?

[JI7]

1. yeah, but the conservative party there is probably nothing like the US conservatives

they probably support civil rights and science . are not as backwards as the US.

differences are probably mainly economic and supporting maybe lower tax rates but even then nothing like the US conservatives which is just backwards all around.

[karynnj]

2. Wouldn't this be more similar to years when more people

Vote for a Democrat in their House race and the Republicans end up with the majority? This could happen in any parliamentary system, though it seems from the link that not all seats represent the same population here with the remote areas over represented.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Area of constituency affects the number of seats it elects

In the case of parliamentary elections the country is divided into 19 constituencies corresponding to the counties, including the municipal authority of Oslo which is a county of its own. The number of members returned to the Storting is 169. The number of members to be returned from each constituency depends on the population and area of the county. Each inhabitant counts one point, while each square kilometre counts 1.8 points. Of the 169 members returned, 150 are elected as constituency representatives while 19, one seat from each constituency, are elected as members at large.

https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/elections-and-democracy/den-norske-valgordningen/the-norwegian-electoral-system/id456636/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_Norway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_parliamentary_election,_2013

Oslo: 660,987 people + 454 sq. km = 661,804 points = 1.001 points per person; 19 seats = 34,789 people/seat
Finnmark: 75,886 people + 48,631 sq .km = 163,422 points = 2.154 points per person; 5 seats = 15,177 people/seat

So it's a little worse than the US House in terms of difference in seats per person (and the biggest difference there comes between states just big enough to have 2 seats, like Rhode Island, and those not quite big enough for that, like Montana).

[karynnj]

4. Thanks. Nt