A day after Justice Minister Sylvi Listhaug resigned in order to save Norway’s fragile coalition from collapse, an instant poll from Kantar TNS showed a surge in support for her party, the populist FRP (Progress Party). Listhaug’s highly controversial social media post ten days earlier, implying that the opposition Labour Party (AP) was soft on […]
Category: Norway
Small recovery for Norway’s crisis-hit Labour Party in February polls
After the sensational polling month of January, which saw support for Norway’s Labour Party (AP) slump in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal and a leadership crisis, there was a small narrowing of the average gap with the ruling Conservatives (Hoyre) in February. Labour bounced back from some of its historic lows in February, […]
Labour crashes to ‘lowest since 1924’ after sexual harassment crisis
Last night’s Norstat poll for NRK is one that is already making Norwegian political history. The full impact of the crisis gripping the opposition Labour Party (AP), for so long the country’s dominant force, hits homes as it slumps to just 20.1 per cent support. Were the poll findings to be applied to historic election […]
Norway’s Labour in ‘crisis’ as support slumps
A triple release of polling data yesterday provoked fresh headlines of ‘crisis’ for the election campaign of Jonas Gahr Store, leader of Norway’s opposition Labour Party (AP). All three surveys put Labour below 28 per cent, around three points off their 2013 General Election score and enough to raise the prospect of several seat losses. […]
Worse poll of the year for Labour with exactly one month to Norway’s election
Today’s score of 28.1 per cent of voting intentions with Respons Analyse is the Norwegian Labour Party’s lowest result in 62 national polls so far in 2017. It comes exactly one month before the election of a new Storting on 11 September and raises significant doubts about the AP opposition’s ability to seize power from […]
Norway’s Conservatives poll strongly with five weeks to go
Despite the fact that parliamentary elections are due in mid-September, there have been no nationwide polls published in Norway for four weeks as the country enjoys its holidays. Returning with surveys this weekend are Norfakta for Nationen og Klassekampen and InFact for the VG newspaper. Both reports will make for happy reading for the ruling […]