Senterpartiet

This article deals with the Norwegian Center Party. For the similarly named Swedish party, see Centerpartiet .

Senterpartiet Center Party
Party leader	Trygve Slagsvold Vedum
Secretary General	Knut M. Olsen
vice-chairman	Ola Borten Moe , Anne Beathe Tvinnereim
founding	1920
Headquarters	Oslo
Youth organization	Sintered
Alignment	Peasant Party Political Center Decentralization EU skepticism
Colours)	green
Parliament seats	19/169 ( Storting , 2017 )
Number of members	17,000 (2011)
Website	www.senterpartiet.no

Old party logo (2010-2012)

Senterpartiet ( Sp ; German  Center Party ) was founded in 1920 under the name Bondepartiet (Peasant Party) to represent the interests of the Norwegian peasantry. The name change in 1959 signaled the opening up to a broader group of voters and emphasized a repositioning of the party between the political camps.

Her main political concerns are strengthening the peripheral parts of the country, protecting the environment and preventing Norway from joining the EU . From 2005 to 2013 the party was involved in a coalition government with the Labor Party and the Socialist Left Party . In this government, known as the Red-Green, she saw herself as a politically green element.

history

The party was founded in 1920 by the Norwegian peasantry as Bondepartiet (peasant party). In the 1930s she showed sympathy for nationalist , corporatist and fascist tendencies. Two politicians in particular, Jens Hundseid and Vidkun Quisling , damaged the party's reputation by converting to the fascist Nasjonal Samling .

After World War II, the party increasingly targeted voters beyond agriculture and fishing . The reorientation towards the political center was to be expressed in 1959 with the new party name Senterpartiet . Until the 1990s, however, the Center Party remained largely integrated into the bourgeois camp. In terms of economic and structural policy, the party is committed to strengthening rural areas.

The party's number of seats had risen steadily since 1945, when it was able to lead a bourgeois coalition government with Prime Minister Per Borten in 1965 . During this government, the refusal of Norway to join the EU became a central point on the agenda. The party also criticized environmental pollution and unrestrained growth policies in oil-rich Norway, but initially failed to score with voters.

The Europe question was the dominant theme in the 1993 election campaign. The Sp terminated the political alliance with the Europe-friendly conservatives. Their now isolated position in the center of the party spectrum was secured by the new basic program, which relied on economic decentralization and ecological renewal. Thus the Sp achieved an enormous influx of voters at the expense of Høyre and Fremskrittspartiet . It tripled the number of its mandates and moved into the Storting as the second largest party . In 1994, the second Norwegian referendum on EU accession ended with a victory for the EU opponents.

The government Bondevik I united from 1997, three parties of the bourgeois center (KrF, V, p) excluding the Conservatives. When Bondevik brought the Conservatives into his second cabinet in 2001 , the SP stayed away from this alliance. After this gradual separation from the bourgeois camp, the SP formed a government in 2005 with social democrats and socialists. The three partners worked out a detailed coalition agreement in the Soria Moria hotel on Oslo's Holmenkollen . The so-called “Soria Moria Declaration” of October 13, 2005 formed the basis of the second Stoltenberg government . After the coalition's renewed election victory, the 18-chapter revision of “Soria Moria II” was signed on October 7, 2009.

Party leader

• 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 border (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)
• Liv Signe Navarsete (2008-2014)
• Trygve Slagsvold Vedum (since 2014)

Prime Minister

• Peder Kolstad 1930-1931
• Jens Hundseid 1931–1932
• Per trim 1965–1971

Governments and government participations

• 1930–1931: Kolstad government
• 1931–1932: Hundseid government
• 1963: Lyng government (with Høyre , Kristelig Folkeparti and Venstre )
• 1965–1971: Borten government (with Høyre , Kristelig Folkeparti and Venstre )
• 1972–1973: Korvald government (with Kristelig Folkeparti and Venstre )
• 1983–1986: Willoch government (with Høyre and Kristelig Folkeparti )
• 1989–1990: Syse government (with Høyre and Kristelig Folkeparti )
• 1997–2000: Bondevik I government (with Kristelig Folkeparti and Venstre )
• 2005–2013: Jens Stoltenberg II government (with Arbeiderpartiet and Sosialistisk Venstreparti )

Group chairmen in Storting

• Johan E. Mellbye 1922-1930
• Jens Hundseid 1931–1932
• Gabriel Moseid 1932-1933
• Jens Hundseid 1933–1940
• Rasmus Langeland 1945
• Nils Trædal 1945–1948
• Elisæus Vatnaland 1948–1958
• Per border 1958–1965
• Lars Leiro 1965-1969
• John Austrheim 1969-1971
• With border 1971–1973
• Erland Steenberg 1973–1977
• Johan J. Jakobsen 1977-1983
• Johan Buttedahl 1983–1989
• Anne Enger Lahnstein 1989–1991
• Johan J. Jakobsen 1991-1999
• Odd Roger Enoksen 1999-2003
• Marit Arnstad 2003-2005
• Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa 2005-2007
• Lars Peder Brekk 2007-08
• Rune J. Skjælaaen 2008-09
• Trygve Slagsvold Vedum 2009–2012
• Lars Peder Brekk 2012-2013
• Liv Signe Navarsete 2013-2014
• Marit Arnstad since 2014

Election results for storting

Share of votes of the Sp by municipality ( election 2017 ). The traditional strongholds are Sogn og Fjordane , Nord-Trøndelag , Hedmark and Oppland .

Senterpartiet campaign in Nærbø ( Hå municipality ) 2005

Election year	Part of the vote in percent	Sitting in the storting
1918	4.7	3
1921	13.1	17th
1924	13.5	22nd
1927	14.9	26th
1930	15.9	25th
1933	13.9	23
1936	11.6	18th
1945	8.1	10
1949	7.9	12
1953	9.1	14th
1957	9.3	15th
1961	9.4	16
1965	9.9	18th
1969	10.5	20th
1973	11.0	21st
1977	8.6	12
1981	6.7	11
1985	6.6	12
1989	6.5	11
1993	16.7	32
1997	7.9	11
2001	5.6	10
2005	6.5	11
2009	6.2	11
2013	5.5	10
2017	10.3	18th

In 2017, the Sp achieved the best results in Fylke Sogn og Fjordane (29.7 percent), Nord-Trøndelag (24.4), Hedmark (22.2) and Oppland (21.2). The party traditionally recorded the lowest share of the vote in Oslo (2.1 percent).

See also

• Peasant party

Web links

Commons : Senterpartiet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Senterungdommen - youth organization of Sp

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sp har mists hvert femte medlem. In: Dagbladet . March 15, 2011, accessed February 7, 2012
2. ^ Soria Moria II (Norwegian, English). ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Sp website, accessed February 7, 2012 
3. ↑ Statistics Norway: Share of votes
4. ↑ Statistics Norway: Seats
5. ↑ Result of the Norwegian Farmers Association (Norsk Landmandsforbund)
6. ^ Tall for hele Norge. Stortingsvalg 2017. Election result 2017
7. ↑ 2017 election results from Fylke valgresultat.no, accessed on November 3, 2018.