The existing system in Norway can be explained by its history: members of parliament were elected by electoral colleges elected by men with certain privileges from the Constitution of 1814. The electoral system was a plurality vote. General voting rights were introduced in 1898 for men and in 1913 for women. In 1905, direct elections were introduced in a two-round majority system with single-member constituencies. Despite there was no mention of political parties in the electoral system, parties had been established from 1884. Then a proportional system was established in 1919, with multi-member constituencies, 19 years after Belgium which was the first country having introduced such a system for national elections. The background was that the two-party dominance was reduced by a growing Labour party requesting to be represented according to its support, which had not the favour of the other parties, fearing the political effects of the growing presence of the Labour party.