Workers' part

Workers ' party
Party leader	Jonas Gahr Støre
Secretary General	Kjersti Stenseng
vice-chairman	Hadia Tajik , Bjørnar Skjæran
founding	1886
head office	Youngstorget 2A , Oslo
Youth organization	Working Ungdomsfylking (ON)
Alignment	Social Democracy , Democratic Socialism
Colours)	Red
Parliament seats	48/169 ( 2021 )
Number of members	53,323 (2017)
International connections	Progressive Alliance , Socialist International (SI) (observer)
European party	Party of European Socialists (PES)
Website	arbeiderpartiet.no

Party headquarters Folketeaterbygningen at Youngstorget in Oslo . The building was completed in 1935 and from 1952 to 1959 also housed Folketeatret , a theater of the labor movement.

Arbeiderpartiet (abbreviation Ap; nynorsk Arbeidarpartiet ; German workers' party) is the social democratic party in Norway .

Arbeidernes Ungdomsfylking is the youth organization of the Labor Party.

story

The party was founded in Arendal in April 1887 and was called Det norske Arbeiderparti (DnA) until April 2011 . In their first party manifesto, they called for universal suffrage for men and women and legally regulated working hours, among other things. In the first national elections in 1900, the party received 16% of the vote, but due to the electoral regulations in force at the time, none of its politicians got a seat in the Norwegian parliament, the Storting . In 1903 the party moved into the Storting with four members.

In 1921, after internal disputes over the 21 conditions proposed by Lenin and later decided on for admission to the Communist International, the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Norway (Norwegian: Norges Socialdemokratiske Arbeiderparti ) split off. The Labor Party belonged to the Communist International from 1919 to 1923 , to the London office from 1932 to 1933 , and then to the Socialist Workers' International until 1940 . In 1951 she became a member of the Socialist International , since 2013 she has been part of the Progressive Alliance .

In 1927 there was reunification with the Norwegian Social Democratic Labor Party . Since then, the Labor Party has been the strongest political party in the Norwegian parliament in Storting . In 1928 she was in government for the first time, but only for about three weeks. After the German occupation of Norway began in 1940, the Labor Party was banned until 1945. The Prime Minister elected in 1935, Johan Nygaardsvold , led a government in exile from London with other politicians who had fled , while Vidkun Quisling was installed as the new Prime Minister in Norway .

In the years after the German occupation, the Workers' Party, chaired by Einar Gerhardsen, stood for the development of the Norwegian welfare state . In 1957 the party achieved the best result in its history with 48.3% of the vote.

Ap last provided the Norwegian Prime Minister with Jens Stoltenberg from 2005 to 2013 .

Since 2013, like the Social Democrats in other European countries, the party has been losing support from the electorate. In the local and fylketings election (provincial election) in September 2019, it achieved the worst result since the end of the Second World War. In the Storting election in 2021, it received fewer votes than since 2001.

Party leader

• Anders Andersen (1887-1888)
• Hans G. Jensen (1888-1889)
• Christian Holtermann Knudsen (1889–1890, 1900–1903 and 1911–1918)
• Carl Jeppesen (1890-1892 and 1894-1897)
• Ole Georg Gjøsteen (1892-1893)
• Gustav A. Olsen Berg (1893-1894)
• Ludvig Meyer (1897-1900)
• Christopher Hornsrud (1903-1906)
• Oscar Nissen (1906-1911)
• Kyrre Grepp (1918-1922)
• Emil Stang (1922-1923)
• Oscar Torp (1923-1945)
• Einar Gerhardsen (1945–1965)
• Trygve Bratteli (1965-1975)
• Reiulf Steen (1975-1981)
• Gro Harlem Brundtland (1981-1992)
• Thorbjørn Jagland (1992-2002)
• Jens Stoltenberg (2002-2014)
• Jonas Gahr Støre (since 2014)

Prime Minister of the Labor Party

• Christopher Hornsrud , 1928
• Johan Nygaardsvold , 1935-1945
• Einar Gerhardsen , 1945–1951, 1955–1963, 1963–1965
• Oscar Torp , 1951–1955
• Trygve Bratteli , 1971–1972, 1973–1976
• Odvar Nordli , 1976-1981
• Gro Harlem Brundtland , 1981, 1986-1989, 1990-1996
• Thorbjørn Jagland , 1996-1997
• Jens Stoltenberg , 2000–2001, 2005–2013

Election results

Share of votes of the Workers' Party by municipalities ( Storting election 2017 ). The Social Democrats do above average in eastern and northern Norway.

Elections to storting

Election year	percent	Seats	Total seats
1894	0.3	0	114
1897	0.6	0	114
1900	5.2	0	114
1903	12.1	4th	117
1906	15.9	11	123
1909	21.5	11	123
1912	26.2	23	123
1915	32.0	19th	123
1918	31.6	18th	126
1921	21.3	29	150
1924	18.4	24	150
1927	36.8	59	150
1930	31.4	47	150
1933	40.1	69	150
1936	42.5	70	150

Elections to storting

Election year	percent	Seats	Total seats
1945	41.0	76	150
1949	45.7	85	150
1953	46.7	77	150
1957	48.3	78	150
1961	46.8	74	150
1965	43.1	68	150
1969	46.5	74	150
1973	35.3	62	155
1977	42.3	76	155
1981	37.2	66	155
1985	40.8	71	157
1989	34.3	63	165
1993	36.9	67	165
1997	35.0	65	165
2001	24.3	43	165
2005	32.7	61	169
2009	35.4	64	169
2013	30.9	55	169
2017	27.4	49	169
2021	26.4	48	169

The Årdal industrial site , in the Sogn og Fjordane province , is the heart of Norwegian social democracy. In the 2009 Storting election , the proportion of votes was 70.2%. In the 2011 local elections, the Labor Party achieved 77.5% of the vote and 16 out of 21 seats in the local council.

See also : Fylkesting elections  and local elections

Web links

• arbeiderpartiet.no - the official website of the Labor Party

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Own information. KrF og Venstre mists over 2,000 medlemmer på ett år Aftenposten, January 11, 2018, accessed on November 3, 2018.
2. ↑ Principles and work program (Norwegian) ( Memento of July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) PDF
3. ^ "No more Norwegian Workers' Party" (Norwegian) Aftenposten, April 9, 2011, accessed on January 14, 2012
4. ↑ ^{a b} Start på Arbeiderpartiet. Retrieved April 18, 2019 (Norwegian). 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Working party gjennom 130 år. Retrieved April 18, 2019 (Norwegian (Bokmål)). 
6. ↑ Statsministerens kontor: Johan Nygaardsvolds regjering. December 12, 2006, Retrieved April 18, 2019 (Norwegian). 
7. ^ Maria Knoph Vigsnæs: Ap går mot historisk dårlig valg - Sp ligger an til å bli valgets vinner. September 9, 2019, Retrieved September 15, 2019 (Norwegian (Bokmål)). 
8. ↑ Hans Cosson-Eide: Ap mot sitt dårligste valg on 16 år. September 11, 2017, Retrieved September 15, 2019 (Norwegian (Bokmål)). 
9. ↑ Historical overview, percent Statistics Norway
10. ↑ Historical overview, Seats Statistics Norway
11. ↑ Oddvin Aune: Her stemmer 8 av 10 på Arbeiderpartiet NRK Nyheter, August 31, 2011, accessed on February 6, 2012
12. ↑ Storting election results 2009 by municipalities ( Memento from January 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Norway Statistics, accessed on February 6, 2012