Elections to the Storting – parliamentary elections

The Storting's main duties are making the laws we live by in Norway, deciding how the government will get its money and how that money will be distributed in society, and supervising the government. You can read more about what the Storting is and does on its website.

The right to vote in parliamentary elections

The right to vote in parliamentary elections is based on universal suffrage, which means that the right to vote is not restricted on the basis of gender, religion, ethnicity, property ownership, or other distinctions. Nevertheless, you do have to meet certain criteria to be eligible to vote in parliamentary elections. You must:

• be a Norwegian citizen;
• be at least 18 by the end of the election year; and
• be, or once have been, registered in the Population Register as resident in Norway.

Composition of the Storting

The Storting consists of 169 representatives from 19 constituencies. Of these, 150 hold directly-elected constituency seats and 19 hold seats at large. The constituencies in Norway match the county boundaries as they were before the regional reform.
The distribution of seats between the constituencies is recalculated every eight years based on the 19 constituencies' population and area.

The following distribution applies from and including the parliamentary election in 2021: