Let \(\widetilde{\operatorname {pe}}(\lambda )\) be the restricted parity excess, which is the number of different odd parts minus the number of different even parts in the partition \(\lambda \) . We define a random variable \(X_n\) which takes value \(\widetilde{\operatorname {pe}}(\lambda )\) while we choose \(\lambda \) uniformly at random from the set of partitions of n. Then, we show that \(X_n\) is asymptotically normally distributed.