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It is possible to vote to the General Election before electionhalls are opened - the Prevotes.

Norway has a population of about 5 million people. Tiny Norway. 3,5-4 million of these have the right to vote. This year 707.489 Norwegian citizens chose to prevote. Assuming a participation of about 65-80% of elligable voters this years prevoting represents 22-27% of the total votes. This is a significant amount. Prevoting closed on September 11.

What time to apply? Votes may be cast until 21.00 hrs CST on September 14.
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It is possible to vote to the General Election before election halls are opened - the Prevotes.
Ah....I had forgotten about postal voting. :oops:

That has started in the UK too. I think the US do this for US citizens living overseas. Mmm I think you have found the killer argument there!
What time to apply? Votes may be cast until 21.00 hrs CST on September 14.
Ok I will give you this one. :)

Mark
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Mark wrote:PS Andrew I note you move between Regiomontanus and Placidus houses. Why is that?
If you never change your mind, why have one? :D

Actually - Thank you, Mark. I didn't realize. Some of these charts have been on my website for over a decade. I would have stuck with Regiomontanus.
Gosh those Regio houses are small/big up your way!
Norwegians are a small people and have big houses! :-T

House systems collapse at the Artic Circle. This creates the most wonderful theoretical problems for astrologers to brush their heads against. You really should visit some day.
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Result of Norwegian General Election

Socialists win majority of seats in Parliament, even though non-socialists win majority of votes. The existing socialist coalition of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is expected to continue for 4 new years.

Mandates
Socialists 86 ? Non-Socialists 83

Socialists
Labour 64 (+3)
Socialist Left Party 11 (-4)
Farmers 11 (unch)
Communists 0 (unch)

Non-socialists
Progress Party 41 (+3)
Conservatives 30 (+7)
Christian Democrats 10 (-1)
Liberals 2 (-8 )
Others 0 (-unch)


Votes
Socialists 49,0% Non-Socialists 51,0%

Socialists
Labour 35,5% (+ 2,8%)
Socialist Left Party 6,1% (-2,7%)
Farmers 6,2% (-0,1%)
Communists 1,3% (+0,1%)

Non-socialists
Progress Party 22,9% (+0,9%)
Conservatives 17,2% (+3,1%)
Christian Democrats 5,5% (-1,2%)
Liberals 3,8% (-2,1%)
Others 1,3% (-0,4%)

Commentary will follow below.
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Commentary on the Norwegian Election

The socialist government of sitting Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg seems set to survive the Norwegian General Election of September 14. That is the result before the fine counting is completed. However, Mercury is retrograde and with 73,7% of the eligible voters using their vote this was the lowest participation at a Norwegian election since 1927. In 1927 Jupiter and Uranus joined in the first degrees of Aries. This pattern is repeated in 2010.

My initial approach to the election chart describes a chaotic political landscape in the wake of the vote. Now it appears to be business as usual, as Norwegians decide that to be the best thing under the current political and geo-financial challenges. However, there are a lot of issues worthy of consideration. The Non-Socialist segment actually won the majority of votes, but with the Liberals (Venstre) loosing over 1/3 of their voters and ending up with 3,8% of the cast votes, which is under the crucial 4,0% level, they lost the right to a number of equalization mandates characteristic to the Norwegian political system. This system topples the division of mandates/ seats at Parliament in a socialist direction and Stoltenberg survives. If a fine count revels 0,2% more votes for the Liberals (a couple of 1000 votes) then the political balance is shifted in the opposite direction. However, this seems unlikely.

Lars Sponheim (V) lost his seat in parliament and resigned as leader of the Liberals as the results become known. His comment was that the people had chosen to vote tactically to avoid the Progress Party (FrP) from coming to power ? and this is probably true. The ironical thing here is that the Liberals were the non-socialist party that were most clear and absolute in their political statement that supporting any government containing the Progress Party would not be supported by the Liberals. Sponsheim?s problem here is that he said he would also topple Stoltenberg?s government if there were a non-socialist majority. So basically he didn?t want to cooperate with anyone before chaos caused the balanced to end in the centre. In which case a coalition between the Conservatives, Christian Democrats and the Liberals was the most likely alternative.

Instead Sponheim?s political career seems to be over and he is sent back home to farming sheep on the Norwegian west coast. This political vulnerability was picked up in advance in Sponheim?s chart:
Currently, august 2009, his SAP is about 17 degrees Cancer. The sign Cancer is disposed by the Moon in Pisces. Sponheim is saying that he will topple the Socialist government if there is a Non-Socialist majority, but with the Moon in Pisces it doesn't look like Sponheim has an alternative to the existing government, rather, there are too many loose strings and the danger is leading the nation into a political havoc. Another thing that should be considered is the vulnerability of Moon in Pisces. With Mars luring at 11CN24 in Sponehim's nativity, it seems more reasonable that he should be on the defensive, rather than on the attack, and that some internal or domestic conflict would be on the brew - and due to manifest no later than 2010.
Sponheim does officially step down as leader of the Liberals at the party?s general election in 2010.

While Progress Party leader Siv Jensen gives the Liberal?s Lars Sponheim the blame for the failure of a potential non-socialist government, other commentaries give Siv Jensen the fault for creating havoc between the non-socialist parties. The Progress Party did not succeed at this years election since early polls suggested a result up towards 27% of the voters, in comparison to the 22,9% result that was gained yesterday. On the other hand this is a historical best for the Progress Party and the tendency still is that this party are winning new mandates in Norwegian politics. Her chart still suggests advancement and the potitial of some coalition looking into 2010.

The Conservative Party (H), with Erna Solberg, appears as one of the winners in this years election with 17,2% of the votes and an improvement of 3,1% in comparison with the 2005 election. The only problem is that 2005 represented a historical low for the Conservatives and if the election result of 2005 also was coloured by tactical voting, then this years tactical voting has done nothing more than let the pendulum swing a little bit back to normal.

This year?s vote does not show much movement of votes across the political segments of socialist parties and non-socialist parties, but there is a lot of movement within these segments. The early election day results that were announced at 21.00 hrs suggested that the Socialist Left Party had done a good election and in fact captured seats at parliament. These polls were in fact wrong!! (Mercury retrograde and Moon VOC) and when votes were counted the Socialist Left had actually lost almost 25% of their voters and 2,7% of all votes, reducing them to 6,1%. This is interesting because historically the Liberals and the Socialist Left were once one party before they divided and split into two. Both parties suffered during this year?s election. I should be checking with the founding chart of the first party.

Another thing that is interesting with the existing socialist and non-socialist segments in Norwegian politics is that the Farmer?s Party (SP) is traditionally not a socialist party. In fact over the last decades they have been sat in several non-socialist governmental coalitions. Before the election the Farmer?s also made it completely clear that they did not want to continue a collation with the Labour Party under the existing terms. They would not accept a new four-year period under the same lines.

As soon as the issue regarding Norwegian membership in the EU rises, the Stoltenberg coalition is at any rate doomed. Because there is no way that the Farmer?s will support such an application. This is likely to mean that such an application is likely to be postponed for another four years, or the Labour Party will actually receive support from the Conservatives in this issue. In my analysis I pointed out that the Conservatives could swing either way- to the Progress Party or to Labour. They are certainly common to all at the moment.

Currently it is an issue of putting all the pieces together. The final word has not been said and if the Labour government succeed in keeping the existing coalition in office it will be interesting to follow the next four-year period from the astrological perspective of having studied the election.
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