1936 Norwegian parliamentary election

← 1933 19 October 1936 1945 →
All 150 seats in the Storting 76 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Oscar Torp Johan H. Andresen Johan Ludwig Mowinckel Party Labour Conservative Liberal Last election 40.1%, 69 seats 20.2%, 30 seats 17.7%, 24 seats Seats won 70 36 23 Seat change 1 6 1 Popular vote 618,616 310,324 232,784 Percentage 42.5% 21.3% 16.0%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Jens Hundseid Ingebrigt Bjørø [no] Bertram Dybwad Brochmann Party Farmers' Christian Democratic Society Last election 13.9%, 23 seats 0.8%, 1 seat 1.5%, 1 seat Seats won 18 2 1 Seat change 5 1 0 Popular vote 168,038 19,612 45,109 Percentage 11.5% 1.3% 3.1%
Results by county
Prime Minister before election Johan Nygaardsvold Labour Prime Minister after election Johan Nygaardsvold Labour

Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 19 October 1936,^[1] the last before World War II and the German invasion of Norway. The result was a victory for the Labour Party, which won 70 of the 150 seats in the Storting.^[2]

During the election campaign, the conservative and liberal parties ran on the slogan "A free people in a free Norway."^[2] They argued that a Labour Party victory would lead to terrorism, dictatorship, and Marxism.^[2] A prominent controversial topic during the election campaign was the decision of the Labour government to allow Leon Trotsky to take up a domicile in Norway in 1935.^[2]

Campaign

Slogans

National daily newspaper endorsements

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Labour Party	618,616	42.51	70	+1
	Conservative Party–Free-minded People's Party[a]	310,324	21.32	36	+6
	Liberal Party	232,784	16.00	23	–1
	Farmers' Party	168,038	11.55	18	–5
	Society Party	45,109	3.10	1	0
	Nasjonal Samling	26,577	1.83	0	0
	Christian Democratic Party	19,612	1.35	2	+1
	Free-minded People's Party–Fatherland League[a]	19,236	1.32	0	0
	Radical People's Party	6,407	0.44	0	–1
	Communist Party	4,376	0.30	0	0
	Other parties	4,132	0.28	0	–
Wild votes		27	0.00	–	–
Total		1,455,238	100.00	150	0
Valid votes		1,455,238	99.44
Invalid/blank votes		8,230	0.56
Total votes		1,463,468	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,741,905	84.02
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Seat distribution