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«Lagthing» for discussing and voting the bills which are brought
in, as well as for the exercise of the constitutional control (see
below).
The representatives are chosen by an indirect election for a
period of three years, during which no authority can dissolve the
Storthing or issue writs for new elections.
The voters or primary electors choose the secondary electors
(valgmænd) whose number is one per cent of the voters of the
rural election districts and two per cent of the voters of the towns;
but the mechanism of the elections is too complicated to be
described here in detail.
Each rural parish forms an election district, as does also each
town. The secondary electors for the different parishes of the
county (amt) assemble at a place determined by the prefect
(amtmand) to choose the representatives of the county and an
equal number of substitutes. [1] These representatives of the counties
do not represent the towns therein situated.
The election of the representatives of the towns and their
substitutes is made in the same manner as for the counties, even if
only one town — as is commonly the case — forms the electoral
district.
In 1898 manhood suffrage was introduced into Norway. [2] The
right of voting belongs to every Norwegian citizen of 25 years of
age, domiciled in the country during the last five years and actually
residing there. Still the voter himself must see to it that his
name is entered on the electoral register (mandtal) of the district
before the closure of the register, which — according to an act of
July 23rd, 1884 — will take place at eight o’clock in the evening
on the tenth day before the day fixed for the election. While these
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