Norway election, 11th September 2017

[joevsimp]

this poll is interesting:
Labour: 33.7
Hoyre: 20.1
Centre: 14.3
Progress: 11.1
Christian Democrats: 5.1
Venstre: 4.3
Socialist Left: 4.1
Red: 2.8
Greens: 2.7

Compared to the 2013 election and the local elections in 2015:

Poll  2017  2015       ch     2013   ch
AP:  33.7   33.6     +0.1    30.8  +2.9
H:    20.1   23.4     -3.3     26.8   -6.7
SP:  14.3     8.0    +6.3       5.5   +8.8
FrP: 11.1   10.3    +0.8      16.3   -5.2
KrF:   5.1    5.6     -0.5        5.6   -0.5
V:      4.3    5.0    - 0.7        5.2   -0.9
SV:    4.1    4.0    +0.1        4.1     0.0
Rødt: 2.8    2.2    +0.6        1.1   +1.7
MdG: 2.7    5.0     -2.3        2.8    -0.1


so some fairly big changes, but largely similar to the local elections 2 years ago, the big exception being a drop for the Greens, although their share in polling did increase in the run up to the last election.

apart from their spike in 1993 in the run up to the EU referendum, SP haven't done this well since the 1970s

[joevsimp]

So the left wing block actually gets more votes but loses the election?

This is a most unwelcome form of Américanisation in my opinion.

Also why, why have both Rodt ans Socialist Left?

Sv split from the left of Labour in the early seventies over Nato and EEC membership and some other issues. Rødt are the remains of the Maoist AKP and some miscellaneous Trots. not sure what their differences day to day are though

[joevsimp]

VG's results site looks the best of the various media outlets, lots of options on the maps

knowing how much some of us love a good results map broken down as small as possible, here is Oslo broken down by individual polling place, you can see a lot of patterns in the different party figures (east/west, centre/suburbs etc)

http://www.vg.no/valgnatt/2017/valg/storting/fylker/oslo/

other large kommuner are divided into valgkretser (precincts I guess) but smaller ones are not