Center_Party_(Norway)

Center Party (Norway)

Center Party (Norway)

Political party in Norway


Center Party (Norwegian: Partiet Sentrum, Northern Sami: Bellodat Guovddáš) is a registered political party in Norway. The party was established by several former county leaders from the Christian Democratic Party, defectors from the Socialist Left Party,[3] the Labour Party, the Conservative Party[4] and the Green Party, as well as former city councilor for the Labour Party in Oslo Geir Lippestad. The party's youth organization is Unge Sentrum.[5]

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In the party platform, the party has decided to be a bloc-independent center party based on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The party wanted a change of government after the 2021 Norwegian parliamentary election.[6] The party received 0.3% of the votes in the elections.[7]

Opinion polls

In December 2020, the party secured enough signatures to run lists in all counties for the 2021 parliamentary election.[8] The Center Party was measured in opinion polls in the winter of 2020/21 between 0.0 and 0.7 per cent support.[9][10]

In the spring of 2021, Norstat conducted a nationwide survey commissioned by the Center Party, to answer how the party fared before the parliamentary elections in 2021.[11] Two percent of the 1,000 respondents answered "yes" to the question of whether they considered voting for the party in the autumn elections. Nine percent answered "maybe", and 13% answered "do not know".[12]

Electoral results

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References

  1. Rowe, Asle (20 December 2020). "(+) Thore Sebastian går fra SV til Partiet Sentrum". Sandefjords Blad (in Norwegian). Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  2. Aslam, Hina (12 March 2021). "Partiet Sentrum tar opp kampen med Ap: – Kunne ikke støtte et parti jeg ikke kjenner meg igjen i". Dagsavisen - nyheter, sport, debatt og kultur (in Norwegian). Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  3. "Partiet sentrum". NRK. 20 January 2021.
  4. "Tall for hele Norge Stortingsvalg 2021". Valgresultat.no (in Norwegian). 14 September 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2021. Partiet Sentrum 0,3%
  5. "Norstat undersøkelse: På rett vei oppover" (in Norwegian Bokmål). 2021-07-01. Archived from the original on 2021-07-01. Retrieved 2021-07-01.

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