Lars Sponheim is a Norwegian politician. He was leader of the Liberal Party from 1996 to 2010. He was a member of the Storting from 1993 to 2009,and a government minister from 1997 to 2000 and from 2001 to 2005. He served as County Governor of Vestland from 2010 to 2022,having served as the County Governor of Hordaland from 2010 until the office was merged with that of neighboring Sogn og Fjordane in 2019.
Erna Solberg is a Norwegian politician and the current Leader of the Opposition. She served as the 35th prime minister of Norway from 2013 to 2021,and has been Leader of the Conservative Party since May 2004.
Young Liberals of Norway (NUV) is the youth league of the Norwegian political party Venstre. Young Liberals was founded on 27 January 1909,with Anders Kirkhusmo as the first leader. The current president is Sondre Hansmark,since 2017. Vice presidents are Ane Breivik and Lars Brandsås,and the International Officer is Idun Gulla Dyrnes. It advocates a more liberal version of the mother party's social liberalist ideology.
Peter Christian Hersleb Kjerschow Michelsen,better known as Christian Michelsen,was a Norwegian shipping magnate and statesman. He was the first prime minister of independent Norway and Norway's 9th prime minister from 1905 to 1907. Michelsen is most known for his central role in the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905,and was one of Norway's most influential politicians of his time.
Wollert Konow was the 12th prime minister of Norway from 1910 to 1912. He was the leader of a coalition cabinet. Konow's time as Prime Minister saw the extension of accident insurance to seamen in 1911.
The Liberal Party is a social liberal political party in Norway. It was founded in 1884 and is the oldest political party in Norway. It is positioned in the centre on the political spectrum,and it is a liberal party which has over the time enacted reforms such as parliamentarism,freedom of religion,universal suffrage,and state schooling.
Terje Søviknes is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party who has served as the mayor of Bjørnafjorden since 2023. He previously served as minister of petroleum and energy from December 2016 to August 2018. From December 2019 to January 2020 he was the minister of the elderly and public health. He also serves as the party's second deputy leader since 2019,a post he previously held from 1999 to 2001.
Helge Lunde Seip was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party and later the Liberal People's Party.
Helge Solum Larsen was a Norwegian businessman and politician for the Liberal Party. He served as deputy leader of the party from 2010 to 2012.
Audun Bjørlo Lysbakken is a Norwegian politician who served as the leader of the Norwegian Socialist Left Party from 2012 to 2023. His career in national politics began when he was elected to the Norwegian parliament in 2001. In 2006,he became deputy leader of the Socialist Left Party. He held the post as Minister of Children and Equality in Jens Stoltenberg's second government from October 2009 to March 2012,when he resigned due to a conflict of interest. Under his leadership,the Socialist Left Party had strong gains in its vote share in Parliamentary elections and membership.
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 13 and 14 September 2009. Elections in Norway are held on a Monday in September,usually the second or third Monday,as determined by the king. Early voting was possible between 10 August and 11 September 2009,while some municipalities also held open voting on 13 September. Voters elected 169 members for the Storting,each for a four-year term. Voter turn-out in the 2009 general elections was 76.4%.
Henrik Johan Lisæth is a Norwegian businessperson and politician from the Conservative Party.
The 1994 national convention of the Progress Party of Norway was held from 15 April to 17 April at the hotel BolkesjøTuristhotell in Bolkesjø,Telemark. It was originally set up to be a normal convention with 157 delegates in a non-election year,but because of mounting antagonism between a traditionalist and a libertarian faction,it became clear some months before the conventions that personal positions could be at stake. The party leader seat,held by Carl I. Hagen since 1978,was up for re-election. The deputy leaders Ellen Wibe and Hans J. Røsjorde was not up for election until 1995,but there were talks about forming a motion of no confidence against Wibe. The political disagreements roughly corresponded to a cleavage between two factions.
Sveinung Rotevatn is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. Rotevatn comes from Nordfjordeid,Sogn og Fjordane,and has a master's degree in law from the University of Bergen. He served as Minister of Climate and the Environment from 2020 to 2021. Prior to that,he served as a state secretary at the same department from 2018 to 2020 under then minister Ola Elvestuen.
Olaf Henning Thommessen was the Chief Executive Officer of SMB Norge,The Norwegian Association of Small &Medium Enterprises and a former politician for the Liberal Party.
Bjørnar Moxnes is a Norwegian politician and activist representing the left-wing political party,the Red Party in the Storting. Moxnes opposes the European Union,characterizing Norway's participation in the EEA as undemocratic. Moxnes describes himself as a socialist. He served as the leader of the Red Party from 2012 to 2023,when he resigned in the wake of stealing a pair of sunglasses from a shop at Oslo Airport Gardermoen. Moxnes had previously served as the party's deputy leader from 2010 to 2012.
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 8 and 9 September 2013 to elect all 169 members of the unicameral Storting. The centre-right coalition obtained 96 seats,while the incumbent red–green coalition government obtained 72 seats and the Green Party obtained one. The Labour Party won the largest share (30.8%) of the votes cast,with the Conservatives coming second (26.8%),after increasing its share by 9.6 percentage points.
Eigil Knutsen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He has served as an MP for Hordaland since 2017,and was previously a deputy member from 2013 to 2017.
Dag Inge Ulstein is a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party.
Ane Breivik is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
