Gerhardsen's First Cabinet, often called the Unification Cabinet (Norwegian: Samlingsregjeringen), was a Norwegian government appointed to serve under Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen between 25 June and 5 November 1945, in the aftermath of the Second World War.

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Gerhardsen's First Cabinet Unification Cabinet
Cabinet of Norway
Date formed	25 June 1945
Date dissolved	5 November 1945
People and organisations
Head of state	Haakon VII of Norway
Head of government	Einar Gerhardsen
No. of ministers	15
Member party	Labour Party Liberal Party Conservative Party Communist Party Resistance movement
Status in legislature	Majority
History
Legislature term(s)	1945-1949
Outgoing formation	1945 parliamentary election
Predecessor	Nygaardsvold's Cabinet
Successor	Gerhardsen's Second Cabinet

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The preceding Nygaardsvold's Cabinet had been appointed nine years earlier, but in 1940, just before scheduled elections, Norway was invaded by Germany, and the government had to flee to London. When the war was over, Nygaardsvold's Cabinet abdicated after returning to Norway, and a panpolitical, coalition government was appointed by King Haakon VII to sit until an election for the Parliament of Norway could be held.

The cabinet is noteworthy in Norwegian political history for being the first one to include a woman, Kirsten Hansteen, who was Consultative Councillor of State in the Ministry of Social Affairs, the only one ever to have members from the Communist Party of Norway (one of whom was Hansteen), and the only time the Labour Party sat in a coalition government before Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet was appointed in 2005.

The cabinet had the following members:^[1]