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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.

Updated: 17 April 2023
Next update: Not yet determined

Selected figures from this statistics

  • Municipal- and County Council Election. Persons entitled to vote
    Municipal- and County Council Election. Persons entitled to vote
    2023
    Persons entitled to vote. TotalEntitled to vote due to age from:Foreign citizens entitled to voteNorwegian citizens with immigrant background, entitled to vote1
    Last Storting Election. 18-19 yearsLast Municipal- and County Council Election. 18-21 years
    The whole country4 356 600128 600255 500358 400399 600
    Østfold249 7007 50014 60018 90026 800
    Akershus557 10018 20035 30059 20068 700
    Oslo574 00013 70028 30067 400112 900
    Innlandet304 0008 40016 90016 80015 500
    Buskerud212 9006 50012 50021 10023 000
    Vestfold203 7006 10011 70015 70015 600
    Telemark142 1004 1008 1008 60010 200
    Agder248 9007 80015 60016 70019 300
    Rogaland377 60012 30024 00033 80031 100
    Vestland509 20015 50031 20038 40030 300
    Møre og Romsdal211 6006 60013 10015 7009 800
    Trøndelag - Trööndelage379 30011 00022 30022 80019 800
    Nordland - Nordlánnda192 8005 50010 90010 2007 400
    Troms - Romsa - Tromssa134 7003 8007 6008 6006 000
    Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku59 4001 6003 4004 5003 100
    1Persons with two foreign-born parents
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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.

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