Editing Early voting (section)

===Norway ===
In [[Norway]] early voting is known as "forhåndsstemming". By law, election day is set to a Monday in September in the year of the end of the current term. Early voting is usually opened 1 month before election day, and closes the Friday before. Up to and including the Friday, everyone can vote anywhere in the country. On election day, voting has to occur within the municipality the voter is a resident of by the end of June.

At the general election of 2009, 707,489 Norwegians voted in advance, 200 000 more than the previous record, in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/krd/pressesenter/pressemeldinger/2009-2/-har-forhandsstemt.html?id=576794 |title=707 489 har forhåndsstemt |publisher=Regjeringen.no |date=September 11, 2009 |access-date=October 29, 2012}}</ref>

The share that do early voting has steadily increased and in the national elections in 2021, 57.9% of votes cast were early votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://valgresultat.no/valg/2021/st |title=Election results |publisher=Valgresultat.no |access-date=2023-12-31}}</ref> With 1.7 million early voters.