Tag: elections

Bergen settles on new city government

It's official: The Norwegian Labour Party will form a new city government in Bergen and Labour's Marte Mjøs Persen will take over over as mayor....

Conservatives win Svalbard election

Voters on Norway's Arctic archipelago of Svalbard didn't seem to have much gratitude for the local Labour Party's efforts to keep its controversial coal...

Church cleared to wed homosexuals

Results of a national election held last week to select new delegates to the governing body of The Norwegian Church have been streaming in, and setting off...

Greens to negotiate with the reds

Norway's triumphant Greens Party opted on Thursday to start negotiations with the Labour and Socialist Left (SV) parties on forming or at least supporting...

Greens plant their new seeds of power

NEWS ANALYSIS: A week after scoring their most stunning election victories ever, Norway's Greens Party is busy uprooting other parties' entrenched positions in local communities all...

Voter turnout sunk to new low

This week's mid-term municipal elections in Norway generated the lowest voter turnout in more than a decade. Just under 2.4 million of the country's...

Reds logged best election results ever

Norway's far-left Reds party (Rødt) was celebrating its best results ever in the latest mid-term municipal elections this week. When the final tallies came...

Election results may shake up coalition

Prime Minister Erna Solberg has claimed that this week's earthquake of an election only affected and reflected local politics, and had no bearing on her government...

‘Heartless’ campaign rocks government

Crushing losses suffered by Norway's conservative Progress Party in this week's mid-term municipal elections are now being directly linked to what even some party...

Oslo mayor’s post up for grabs

Speculation was swirling Tuesday over who would emerge as the new mayor of Oslo, and which party will now lead the government of Norway's biggest...
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