Centre Party (Norway)
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The Centre Party (
Ideologically, the Centre Party is positioned in the
The Centre Party has maintained a strong stance against Norwegian membership in the European Union,[9] successfully campaigning against Norwegian membership in both the 1972 and 1994 referendums, during which time the party saw record-high election results. Subsequently, the party proposed Norway's withdrawal from the European Economic Area and the Schengen Agreement.[9] In 2017, party deputy leader Ola Borten Moe declared nationalism to be a "positive force".[10]
History
The party was founded at the national convention of the Norsk Landmandsforbund during 17–19 June 1920, when it was decided by the association to run for the 1921 Norwegian parliamentary election. In 1922, the association was renamed to the Norwegian Agrarian Association and the political activity of the group was separated as the Farmers' Party (Bondepartiet).[11]
During the eight decades since the Centre Party was created as a political faction of a Norwegian
In 1959, the party briefly changed its name to the Norwegian Democratic Party – Democrats (Norsk Folkestyreparti – Demokratene), but it soon had to change the name again due to election technicalities. In June 1959, the name was changed to the current Centre Party. This happened out of the need to attract an additional electorate with the continuing decline of the agrarian share of the population.[11] The party's membership numbers peaked at 70,000 in 1971.[16] From 1927 to 1999, the party published the newspaper Fylket.[17]
In local elections, the party has enjoyed strong support in several small municipalities, where the party has a strong influence. After the
The Centre Party had been a part of both
The party is known for its support of high toll tariffs on foreign cheese and meat called "toll protection"[21] as well as their proposal to shoot all wolves in Norway.[22] However, this has lately been rejected as the party's policy by Sandra Borch, the predator policies spokesperson of the Centre Party, who in an 2020 interview given on the debate program to Dagsnytt 18 on NRK1 stated that "[t]he Centre Party has never proposed to exterminate the wolf. We want substainable management of predators", adding that "[w]hat the Centre Party has been a part of, together with the Liberal Party in a broad agreement in the Storting, is that we will have 4-6 breeding wolf packs in Norway."[23]
The party was also in charge of implementing the
In late 2012, the Centre Party caused controversy in Norway when it emerged that the party had demanded higher import tariffs on meat and hard cheeses to protect Norwegian farmers from foreign competition.[25] This included increased duties of 429% on lamb, 344% on beef and 277% on all but 14 exempted hard cheeses.[26]
Since the leadership of
List of party leaders
- Johan E. Mellbye (1920–1921)
- Kristoffer Høgset (1921–1927)
- Erik Enge (1927–1930)
- Jens Hundseid (1930–1938)
- Nils Trædal (1938–1948)
- Einar Frogner (1948–1954)
- Per Borten (1955–1967)
- John Austrheim (1967–1973)
- Dagfinn Vårvik (1973–1977)
- Gunnar Stålsett (1977–1979)
- Johan J. Jakobsen (1979–1991)
- Anne Enger Lahnstein(1991–1999)
- Odd Roger Enoksen (1999–2003)
- Åslaug Haga (2003–2008)
- Lars Peder Brekk (2008; acting)
- Liv Signe Navarsete (2008–2014)
- Trygve Slagsvold Vedum (2014–present)
Government participation
Governments led by Centre Party Prime Ministers:
- The Government of Peder Kolstad 1931–1932 (minority government)
- The Government of Jens Hundseid 1932–1933 (minority government)
- The V)
With Prime Ministers from other parties:
- The Government of Lars Korvald (KrF), 1972–1973 (coalition of KrF, Sp and V)
- The second Government of Kåre Willoch (H), 1983–1986 (coalition of H, KrF and Sp)
- The Government of Jan P. Syse (H), 1989–1990, (coalition of H, KrF and Sp)
- The first Government of Kjell Magne Bondevik (KrF), 1997–2000 (minority government coalition of KrF, Sp and V)
- The Ap, Sp and SV)
- The Ap, and Sp)
Electoral results
Date | Votes | Seats | Position | Size | |||
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# | % | ± pp | # | ± | |||
1921 | 118,657 | 13.1 | 8.4[a] | 17 / 150
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14 | Opposition | 4th |
1924 | 131,706 | 13.5 | 0.4 | 22 / 150
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5 | Opposition | 4th |
1927 | 149,026 | 14.9 | 1.5 | 26 / 150
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4 | Opposition | 4th |
1930 | 190,220 | 15.9 | 1.0 | 25 / 150
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1 | Opposition (1930) | 4th |
Minority (from 1931) | |||||||
1933 | 173,634 | 13.9 | 2.0 | 23 / 150
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2 | Opposition | 4th |
1936 | 168,038 | 11.5 | 2.4 | 18 / 150
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5 | Opposition | 4th |
1945 | 119,362 | 8.0 | 3.5 | 10 / 150
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8 | Opposition | 5th |
1949 | 85,418 | 7.9[b] | 0.1 | 12 / 150
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2 | Opposition | 4th |
1953 | 157,018 | 9.0[b] | 1.1 | 14 / 150
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2 | Opposition | 5th |
1957 | 154,761 | 9.3[b] | 0.3 | 15 / 150
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1 | Opposition | 4th |
1961 | 125,643 | 9.3[b] | 0.0 | 16 / 150
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1 | Opposition[c] | 3rd |
1965 | 191,702 | 9.9[b] | 0.6 | 18 / 150
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2 | Coalition (Sp–H–V–KrF) | 4th |
1969 | 194,128 | 10.5[b] | 0.6 | 20 / 150
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2 | Coalition (1969–1971, Sp–H–V–KrF) | 3rd |
Opposition (from 1971) | |||||||
1973 | 146,312 | 11.0[b] | 0.5 | 21 / 155
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1 | Opposition | 3rd |
1977 | 184,087 | 8.6[b] | 2.4 | 12 / 155
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9 | Opposition | 4th |
1981 | 103,753 | 6.7[b] | 1.9 | 11 / 155
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1 | Opposition (1981–1983) | 4th |
Coalition (from 1983, H–KrF–Sp) | |||||||
1985 | 171,770 | 6.6 | 0.1 | 12 / 157
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1 | Coalition (1983–1986, H–KrF–Sp) | 4th |
Opposition (from 1986) | |||||||
1989 | 171,269 | 6.5 | 0.1 | 11 / 165
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1 | In coalition | 6th |
1993 | 412,187 | 16.7 | 10.2 | 32 / 165
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21 | Opposition | 2nd |
1997 | 204,824 | 7.9 | 8.8 | 11 / 165
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21 | Coalition (KrF–Sp–V) | 5th |
2001 | 140,287 | 5.6 | 2.3 | 10 / 165
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1 | Opposition | 6th |
2005 | 171,063 | 6.5 | 0.9 | 11 / 169
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1 | Coalition (Ap–SV–Sp) | 6th |
2009 | 165,006 | 6.2 | 0.3 | 11 / 169
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0 | Coalition (Ap–SV–Sp) | 5th |
2013 | 155,357 | 5.5 | 0.7 | 10 / 169
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1 | Opposition | 5th |
2017 | 301,348 | 10.3 | 4.9 | 19 / 169
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9 | Opposition | 4th |
2021 | 402,481 | 13.6 | 3.3 | 28 / 169
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9 | Coalition (Ap–Sp) | 3rd |
Notable people
- Fredmund Sandvik (born 1951), farmers' leader and politician
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Although Bondepartiet is sometimes translated as the Agrarian Party, sources such as the Centre Party itself[3] and Statistics Norway[4] use the term Farmers' Party.
- ^ Compared to its predecessor, the Norwegian Agrarian Association list
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Ran on joint lists with other parties in some constituencies as it has done from 1949 to 1981. Vote numbers are only from independent Centre Party lists while vote percentage also includes the Centre Party's estimated share from joint lists (Statistics Norway estimates).[30]
- ^ In government coalition from 28 August 1963 to 25 September 1963, see Lyng's Cabinet.
References
- ^ "Fakta om Senterpartiet". Senterpartiet (in Norwegian). 14 February 2017. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- ^ "Valgresultat 2019" (in Norwegian). Directorate of Elections. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ^ "History of the Centre Party". Senterpartiet. Archived from the original on 14 June 2009. Retrieved 12 November 2009.
- ^ "Administrative inndelinger og valg" [Administrative divisions and elections] (in Norwegian). Statistics Norway. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- Norwegian Social Science Data Services. Archived from the originalon 5 January 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
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- Official website (in Norwegian)
- Sp – official English-language information page on the Centre Party's ideology
- Election results for the Centre Party in the 2007 local elections (in Norwegian)