The 2021 Norwegian Sámi parliamentary election was held on 13 September 2021. All 39 seats in the Norwegian Sámi legislature, the Sámediggi, were up for election.

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2021 Norwegian Sámi parliamentary election

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All 39 seats in the Sámi Parliament 20 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	68.78%
Party Leader % Seats +/– NSR Silje Karine Muotka 31.91 17 −1 NKF Toril Bakken Kåven 18.28 9 +6 Labour Ronny Wilhelmsen 15.04 7 −2 Centre Svein O. Leiros 9.59 3 +1 SáB Birger Nymo 5.58 1 −1 Progress Arthur Tørfoss 4.77 1 0 Moving Sámi List Berit Marie P.E. Eira 2.38 1 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. President of the Sámi Parliament before President of the Sámi Parliament after Aili Keskitalo NSR Silje Karine Muotka NSR

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The election used party-list proportional representation in 7 multi-member constituencies. Each constituency is given a minimum of 2 seats. The apportionment of the remaining 25 seats is based on the number of voters on the Sámi electoral roll on 30 June on the year of the last local elections in 2019, and allocated using the Sainte-Laguë method.^[6] Unlike elections to Storting, there are no levelling seats.

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Constituency	Seats[7]
	2017	2021
Østre	5	5
Ávjovári	8	7
Nordre	6	6
Gáisi	5	6
Vesthavet	5	5
Sørsamisk	4	4
Sør-Norge	6	6
Norway	39

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Voters aged 18 or over, and registered on the Sámi electoral roll prior to 30 June 2021, were entitled to vote in the Sámi Parliament election. To register, a voter must declare that they identify as Sámi, and that they either have Sámi as their mother tongue, have a Sámi parent, grandparent or great-grandparent, or are the child of a person already on the electoral roll. Sámi people from Sweden, Finland or Russia must be registered in Norway for the past three years in order to register.^[6]

Advance voting was available from 10 August to 10 September (1 July for voters abroad or in Svalbard or Jan Mayen), and required for voters in municipalities with fewer than 30 people on the Sámi electoral roll. In total, 8,340 votes, 40.6% of the total, were advance votes.^[8]

The Norwegian Sámi Association presidential candidate Silje Karine Muotka declared victory on the night of the election.^[14] Muotka stated that renewal of the Muohtačalbmi coalition with the Centre Party and Ávjovári Moving Sámi List was her preference for government formation.^[15]

On 12 October, the Norwegian Sámi Association, Centre Party and Ávjovári Moving Sámi List announced that they had reached an agreement to continue cooperating within the Sámi Parliament.^[16] On 18 October, the cooperation agreement, named the Beaiveálgu Declaration after the first Sámi-language novel, was presented. Silje Karine Muotka named her Governing Council, consisting of the Norwegian Sámi Association, with one Centre Party member.^[17] Muotka was elected President of the Sámi Parliament on 21 October.

• 2021 Norwegian parliamentary election