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 […]
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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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Highest ratings since 1997 for Norway’s Centre Party
There have been four new national polls out today and yesterday in Norway, plus several county-level surveys. With six months to parliamentary elections, there is more delight for the surging Centre Party (SP), which is consolidating its support above 10 per cent as the Conservative-led coalition struggles to the end of its term. In the […]