Norwegian Political Landscape Shifts Rightward,
Polling Data Reveals
Norway's apparent rightward political shift mirrors
similar trends witnessed across other Nordic states like Sweden and Finland.
Robert
Semonsen
— January
20, 2023
As has been witnessed recently across other
Nordic countries like Sweden and Finland, Norway’s political landscape also
appears to be shifting to the Right, figures from a new opinion poll have
revealed.
The opinion
poll, published by the Norwegian online news outlet Nettavisen, has indicated
that, if elections were held today, Norway’s three center-Right parties would
collectively garner 46.4% of the national vote, well over the relatively dismal
26.5% that the ruling coalition—comprised the left-liberal Labor Party and the
agrarian Center Party—would receive.
The Labor
Party, the senior partner in Norway’s ruling coalition, has seen its popular
support decline noticeably over the past year or so. Between the late fall of
2021 and January of this year, support for the governing left-wing party has
fallen from nearly 26.7% to 20.5%. The Labor Party’s junior coalition party,
the Center Party, has fared even more poorly, with its support declining from
over 13% to a mere 6% in the same time period.
Meanwhile,
support for the Conservative Party, Norway’s primary center-Right opposition
party, has climbed from just above 20% in the fall of 2021 up to nearly 30% at
the beginning of this year. Last month, the party saw its support level reach
nearly 33%. Support for the national-conservative Progress Party has increased
moderately, up to 13.1% from 11.6%, while the Christian Democratic Party has
seen a small uptick in their popularity, which now stands at just above 4%.
Earlier
this month, polling data out of Finland revealed a similar trend, indicating
that the popularity of both the national-conservative Finns Party (PS) and the
center-Right National Coalition Party (Kok) has exceeded that which is
presently enjoyed by Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s left-liberal Social
Democratic Party, as The European Conservative reported.
And in
Sweden, as most are aware of at this point, a tectonic shift to the Right has
already taken place, as the Social Democratic Party, after leading the country
continually for many decades, finally fell to a center-Right coalition in last
September’s national election. Working and middle-class voters abandoning the
Social Democrats for the national-conservative Sweden Democrats party played a
crucial role in allowing this shift to take place.
Robert
Semonsen is a political journalist for The European Conservative. His work has
been featured in various English-language news outlets in Europe and the
Americas. He has an educational background in biological and medical science. His Twitter handle is @Robert_Semonsen.
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