The Norwegian Parliament

The Norwegian Parliament has 169 representatives from 7 political parties. The biggest is the Labour Party, or in Norwegian, the Arbeiderpartiet, which has 61 of the representatives.

At the time, the government is a cooperation between The Labour Party, The Socialist Left Party and the Centre Party, and is called the Red-Green Government.

The Prime Minister in Norway is Jens Stoltenberg from The Labour Party.

The Chairman of the Norwegian Storting (The Parliament) is Dag Terje Andersen from Labour.

This is the situation of representatives after the election on September 14. 2009:

Total: 169 representatives

Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) 64 representatives 35.4%
Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet) 41 representatives 22.9%
Conservative Party (Høyre) 30 representatives 17.2%
Socialist Left Party (Sosialistisk Venstreparti) 11 representatives 6.2%
Christian Democratic Party (Kristelig Folkeparti)10 representatives 5,5%
Centre Party (Senterpartiet)11 representatives 6.2%
Liberal Party (Venstre) 2 representatives 3.9%

Voter turnout was 76.4%

Source: Statistics Norway.


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