Norwegian parliamentary election, 1969

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The 1969 election proved to be one of the closest ones in Norwegian history. The only leftist party to win seats, the Labour Party, got 74 seats, while the right-wing parties got 76 seats. When counting the results, people started worrying that the two sides would be evenly split with 75 seats each, which would have caused a problem in determining who would be in government. To prevent this from ever happening, the Storting was expanded with 5 seats for the 1973 election, and the number of seats in the Storting has been an odd one since.

Results

Party	Vote (%)	Seats
Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet)	46.5	74
Conservative Party (Høyre)	18.8	29
Centre Party (Senterpartiet)	9.0	20
Christian People's Party (Kristelig Folkeparti)	7.8	14
Liberal Party (Venstre)	9.4	13
Socialist People's Party (Sosialistisk Folkeparti)	3.4	0
Others	5.0	0
Total	100	150