Norway's center-left coalition government has won parliamentary elections. The race was tight and turnout was lower than in 2005, but voters ultimately credited the bloc with steering them through the economic crisis.
The parliament was divided amongst the 169 mandates: Centre-Left coalition 86 and Centre-Right 83
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The government coalition that won the election last Monday also governed the past 4 years ... they are:
*Norwegian Labour Party - Closely linked to the workers union and have the building of the welfare state as their biggest issue, equality for all.
*Socialist Left Party - This party are more like environmentalists and imho the most radical leftists there is, they are usually against everything.
*Centre Party - The old farmers party, they have district development as their main issue.
The other parties on the right side are:
*Progress Party - The party that most resembles the republicans in the US, but they lean more on liberal ideas than the democrats in the US, they are the biggest party on the right side. They are not however the pure definition of national conservatism as they so often are pictured as.
*Conservative Party - The old and sturdy conservative party, besides the Labour party they are the ones with the most governments, they span from the centre and into some of the ideas of the Progress party.
*Christian Democratic Party - Family values are their main issue, homophobes and strong supporters of Israel.
*Liberal Party - A small silly party with no clear identity, environmentalists and against drilling for oil etc etc ...
There is also a bunch of other small insignificant parties that together got less than 1% of the votes in this years election ...
The parliament was divided amongst the 169 mandates: Centre-Left coalition 86 and Centre-Right 83
Prime minister
A Few Links:
Results, misc info
BBC
Yahoo news
Deutsche Welle
Europeanvoice.com
Some basic information can be found on wikipedia, the different parties and their ideology is listed ...Spark wrote:
Could we have a quick breakdown of the major parties and their policy platforms?
The government coalition that won the election last Monday also governed the past 4 years ... they are:
*Norwegian Labour Party - Closely linked to the workers union and have the building of the welfare state as their biggest issue, equality for all.
*Socialist Left Party - This party are more like environmentalists and imho the most radical leftists there is, they are usually against everything.
*Centre Party - The old farmers party, they have district development as their main issue.
The other parties on the right side are:
*Progress Party - The party that most resembles the republicans in the US, but they lean more on liberal ideas than the democrats in the US, they are the biggest party on the right side. They are not however the pure definition of national conservatism as they so often are pictured as.
*Conservative Party - The old and sturdy conservative party, besides the Labour party they are the ones with the most governments, they span from the centre and into some of the ideas of the Progress party.
*Christian Democratic Party - Family values are their main issue, homophobes and strong supporters of Israel.
*Liberal Party - A small silly party with no clear identity, environmentalists and against drilling for oil etc etc ...
There is also a bunch of other small insignificant parties that together got less than 1% of the votes in this years election ...
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