The School Election Project 2011, Reduced voting age

Since 1989, school elections have been held at the upper secondary schools in Norway in connection with parliamentary, municipal and county council elections. The school election is an important part of the election campaign of the party political youth organizations. The purpose is nevertheless first and foremost to be a pedagogical tool in the work of increasing political competence and interest among young people. The present data file was from a survey conducted at the same time as the school election in 2011. At the schools that participate in the school election survey, students first vote in the school election and then answer the survey.

In 2011, an experiment was carried out with a reduced voting age in the municipal council elections in 20 municipalities (+ local council elections in Svalbard). The School Election Project 2011 contained a number of questions that were only to be answered by students with the right to vote in one of the pilot municipalities. A total of 1803 students answered the supplementary form. This file contains only these students, but it contains all the answers.

30,758 students from 155 schools answered the questions in the 2011 election survey.