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. […]
Tag: Norwegian Parliament 2017
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 […]
Conservatives dip as Norway’s Centre gains again
Norway’s ruling Conservative Party (Hoyre) has turned in its worst opinion poll performance of the year in today’s survey by InFact for the VG tabloid newspaper. This is the 33rd national poll so far in this parliamentary election year – and the first time that Hoyre has slipped below 20 per cent of voting intentions. […]
Review: Norwegian polling in March
Eleven nationwide opinion polls were published in Norway in March, along with a dozen county-level surveys. Three of the national polls came from Norstat (two for Vart Land and one for NRK), while InFact, unusually, produced work for the Centre Party as well as for regular client the VG newspaper. The key theme […]
Worse poll for Norway’s Labour under Store leadership
Today’s Opinion Perduco poll for news agency ANB shows the ruling Conservatives (Hoyre) riding high on the back of their annual conference or ‘national meeting’, which has adopted a voter-friendly platform aimed firmly at September’s General Election. Pragmatic policy compromises and media attention surrounding the gathering helped Hoyre to its best score of the year […]