The politics of Norway take place in the framework of a parliamentary,representative democratic constitutional monarchy. Executive power is exercised by the Council of State,the cabinet,led by the prime minister of Norway. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the legislature,the Storting,elected within a multi-party system. The judiciary is independent of the executive branch and the legislature.
The Storting is the supreme legislature of Norway,established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years based on party-list proportional representation in nineteen multi-seat constituencies. A member of the Storting is known in Norwegian as a stortingsrepresentant,literally "Storting representative".
Kristin Halvorsen is a Norwegian politician of the Socialist Left Party. She served as Minister of Finance from 2005 to 2009 and as Minister of Education from 2009 to 2013. She also served as the party's leader from 1997 to 2012 and a member of parliament representing Oslo,from 1989 to 2013.
Jens Valentinsen Hundseid was a Norwegian politician from the Agrarian Party. He was a member of the Norwegian parliament from 1924 to 1940 and the 20th prime minister of Norway from 1932 to 1933.
The Liberal Party is a centrist political party in Norway. It was founded in 1884 and it 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.
Abid Qayyum Raja is a Norwegian lawyer and Liberal Party politician who served as Minister of Culture from 2020 to 2021. He was elected to the Storting as representative for Akershus in 2013 where he served as second deputy chair of the Standing Committee on Transport and Communications and also is a member of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs. In October 2017,Raja was elected as the vice-president of the Storting,the second time in Norway's history that a Muslim has been elected to that office.
Eva Severine Lundegaard Kolstad was a Norwegian politician and government minister for the Liberal Party. A major figure in the history of liberal feminism and the development of state feminism in the Nordic countries,she pioneered gender equality policies in Norway and at the United Nations. She served as president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights (1956–1968),member and vice chairman of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (1969–1975),Minister of Government Administration and Consumer Affairs of Norway in Korvald's Cabinet (1972–1973),leader of the Liberal Party (1974–1976) and as Norwegian Gender Equality Ombudsman (1978–1988),the first gender equality ombudsman worldwide.
Borghild Tenden is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
Siv Jensen is a Norwegian who served as the leader of the Progress Party from 2006 to 2021. She also held the position as Minister of Finance from 2013 to 2020 in the Solberg Cabinet. She was also a member of the Norwegian parliament from Oslo from 1997 to 2021.
Marit Nybakk is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party,a former First Vice-president of the Norwegian Parliament,the Storting,and a former President of the Nordic Council. From 2016 to 2018 she was President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights,the preeminent women's and girls' rights organisation in Norway.
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.
Guri Melby is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. She has served as the party leader since 2020 and Minister of Education from 2020 to 2021. She is also a member of parliament for Oslo since 2021,having previously been a deputy member for the same constituency between 2013 and 2021. Locally,she has also served as Oslo's City Commissioner for Transport and the Environment between 2013 and 2015.
Nikolai Eivindssøn Astrup is a Norwegian politician representing the Conservative Party. He served as Minister of Local Government from 2020 to 2021. Previously he served as the Minister of International Development from 2018 to 2019 in Prime Minister Erna Solberg's cabinet,being the first since Heikki Holmås from 2012 to 2013. In 2019,he also became the first Minister of Digitalisation after the Christian Democratic Party joined the Cabinet,a post he served in until 2020.
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.
Stian Berger Røsland is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He succeeded Erling Lae as Governing Mayor of Oslo in 2009. He served until 2015,when he was replaced by Labour politician Raymond Johansen after the Conservatives and allies narrowly lost the majority in Oslo city council in the 2015 local elections. He also served as commissioner of finance under Erling Lae from 2007 to 2009.
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.
Fredrikke Marie Qvam was a Norwegian humanitarian leader,feminist,liberal politician and the wife of Prime Minister Ole Anton Qvam. She was the founder (1896) of the Norwegian Women's Public Health Association that grew to become Norway's largest women's organisation with 250,000 members,and served as its first President from 1896 to 1933,and as its Honorary President from 1933 until her death. She also served as president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1899 to 1903. She was widely regarded as one of the most influential and successful political lobbyists of her time,and was described in the journal Samtiden in 1915 as the "Queen of the corridors." She was addressed as "Madam Cabinet Minister" and later as "Madam Prime Minister",using her husband's titles.
Iselin Nybø is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party,who served as the Minister of Trade and Industry from 2020 to 2021. She also served as Minister of Higher Education from 2018 to 2020. She was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Rogaland in 2013,where she served as the first deputy chair of the Standing Committee on Education,Research,and Church Affairs. Her seat is a levelling seat.
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 11 September 2017 to elect all 169 members of the unicameral Norwegian Parliament,the Storting. The non-socialist parties retained a reduced majority of 88 seats,allowing Prime Minister Erna Solberg's Conservative-Progress coalition to remain in government. The Liberal Party joined the coalition in January 2018 but it remained a minority cabinet until the Christian Democratic Party joined the coalition in 2019. The three largest centre-left parties won 79 seats. The Green Party retained its single seat,while the Red Party won its first ever seat.
Oslo is one of the 19 multi-member constituencies of the Storting,the national legislature of Norway. The constituency was established as Kristiania in 1921 following the introduction of proportional representation for elections to the Storting. It was renamed Oslo from 1925. It is conterminous with the county of Oslo. The constituency currently elects 19 of the 169 members of the Storting using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2021 parliamentary election it had 485,656 registered electors.
