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Statistics about
Persons entitled to vote
Final and estimated figures for persons entitled to vote in national, regional and local elections. Disaggregated by sex, age, country background and county and constituencies. For national elections timeseries from 1815.
Selected figures from this statistics
- Municipal- and County Council Election. Persons entitled to voteDownload table as ...Municipal- and County Council Election. Persons entitled to vote
2023 Persons entitled to vote. Total Entitled to vote due to age from: Foreign citizens entitled to vote Norwegian citizens with immigrant background, entitled to vote1 Last Storting Election. 18-19 years Last Municipal- and County Council Election. 18-21 years The whole country 4 356 600 128 600 255 500 358 400 399 600 Østfold 249 700 7 500 14 600 18 900 26 800 Akershus 557 100 18 200 35 300 59 200 68 700 Oslo 574 000 13 700 28 300 67 400 112 900 Innlandet 304 000 8 400 16 900 16 800 15 500 Buskerud 212 900 6 500 12 500 21 100 23 000 Vestfold 203 700 6 100 11 700 15 700 15 600 Telemark 142 100 4 100 8 100 8 600 10 200 Agder 248 900 7 800 15 600 16 700 19 300 Rogaland 377 600 12 300 24 000 33 800 31 100 Vestland 509 200 15 500 31 200 38 400 30 300 Møre og Romsdal 211 600 6 600 13 100 15 700 9 800 Trøndelag - Trööndelage 379 300 11 000 22 300 22 800 19 800 Nordland - Nordlánnda 192 800 5 500 10 900 10 200 7 400 Troms - Romsa - Tromssa 134 700 3 800 7 600 8 600 6 000 Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku 59 400 1 600 3 400 4 500 3 100 1Persons with two foreign-born parents Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
About the statistics
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 4 June 2021.
Electoral roll
All prospective voters must be on the electoral register. The electoral register is a list of all those who are entitled to vote in a municipality. One is registered in the electoral register in the municipality by the population register on 30 June of the election year. If one has moved, it will still be the address on 30 June that determines the municipality in which one are entitled to vote.
Persons entitled to vote
Every Norwegian citizen aged 18 or older by the end of the election year has the right to vote in the national election. In the municipal and county council elections one have the right to vote if one meet one of these requirements:
- You are a Norwegian citizen and will have reached the age of 18 by the end of 2019 and are, or have been, registered as residing in Norway
- You are a citizen of another Nordic country (i.e. Denmark, Iceland, Finland or Sweden) and will have reached the age of 18 by the end of the year of the election, and have been registered as residing in Norway by 30 June of the year of the election at the latest
- You are another foreign citizen and have reached the age of 18 by the end of the year of the election and have been registered as residing in Norway for the last three consecutive years before the election day. In this case, there is a requirement that the period of residence has been consecutive
Norwegian citizens with an immigrant background
Norwegian citizens with an immigrant background who are entitled to vote: This category includes both immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents. Immigrants are persons born in a foreign country by foreign-born parents who have moved to Norway. Norwegian-born to immigrant parents is persons born in Norway by foreign parents, and also with four grandparents born in a foreign country.