Party Groups

The Labour Party
The Progress Party
The Conservative Party
The Socialist Left Party
The Christian Democratic Party
The Centre Party
The Liberals

The 169 representatives in the Storting organize themselves into party groups, each of which includes all the representatives belonging to a single party. At group meetings the parties define their political positions and formulate their views on issues currently being dealt with in the Storting. Each group elects a steering committee and a chairman, who is also called the party's parliamentary leader. The chairman and the steering committee make certain political decisions, coordinate group activities, suggest the distribution of representatives among the committees, assign speaking time, and so forth.

Each group has its own secretariat in the Storting to assist the representatives in various ways, both practical as well as political. Each group has at least one political adviser and one or more office secretaries. The size of a group secretariat is determined by the size of the party representation during each electoral term. Office staff are hired by the party group, but they are on the Storting's payroll.

The groups hire and pay the salaries of their political advisers, so the size of this staff is determined by the size of the party and its finances. Each political party represented in the Storting also receives an annual allowance in proportion to its representation for payment of its group secretariat.

At the present there are eight political parties represented in the Storting. You can see a brief survey below which also indicates the number of representatives or members each party have in the Storting.

 

The Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet - A) The Labour Party has 61 members in the Storting.

How to contact the party group:
Address
Arbeiderpartiets stortingsgruppe
Stortinget, N-0026 Oslo, Norway
Telephone: + 47 23 31 33 20 / + 47 23 31 38 53
Fax: + 47 23 31 38 53
E-mail; Ap.postmottak@stortinget.no
Link to the party's homepage: The Labour Party(in English)

The Progress Party

(Fremskrittspartiet - Frp)
The Progress Party has 38 members in the Storting.

How to contact the party group:
Address:
Fremskrittpartiets stortingsgruppe
Stortinget, N-0026, Norway
Telephone: + 47 23 31 34 18
Fax: + 47 23 31 38 28
E-mail: frp.postmottak@stortinget.no
Link to the homepage of the party: The Progress Party
(in Norwegian)

The Conservative Party

(Høyre - H)
The Conservative Party has 23 members in the Storting.

How to contact the party group:
Address
Høyres stortingsgruppe
Stortinget, N-0026, Norway
Telephone: + 47 23 31 33 45
Fax: + 00 47 82 90 80
E-mail: hoyre.postmottak@stortinget.no
Link to the homepage of the party: The Conservative Party
(in English)

The Socialist Left Party

(Sosialistisk Venstreparti - SV)
The Socialist Left party has 15 members in the Storting.

How to contact the party group:
Address
Sosialistisk Venstrepartis stortingsgruppe
Stortinget, N-0026 Oslo, Norway
Telephone: + 47 23 31 34 00
Fax: + 47 23 31 38 69
E-mail: sv.postmottak@stortinget.no
Link to the homepage of the party: The Socialist Left Party
(in English)

The Chrisitan Democratic Party

(Kristelig Folkeparti - KrF)
The Christian Democratic Party has 11 members in the Storting.

How to contact the party group:
Address
Kristelig Folkepartis stortingsgruppe
Stortinget, N-0026 Oslo, Norway
Telephone: + 47 22 23 33 70
Fax: + 47 23 31 38 55
E-mail: krf.postmottak@stortinget.no
Link to the homepage of the party: The Christian Democrats
(in Norwegian)

The Centre Party

(Senterpartiet - Sp)
The Centre Party has 11 members in the Storting.

How to contact the party group:
Address
Senterpartiets stortingsgruppe
Stortinget, N-0026 Oslo, Norway
Telephone: + 47 23 31 33 92/ + 47 22 31 33 94
Fax: + 47 23 31 38 54
E-mail: sp.postmottak@stortinget.no
Link to the hompepage of the party: The Center Party
(in English)

The Liberals

(Venstre - V)
The Liberals' has 10 members in the Storting

How to contact the party group:
Address
Venstres Stortingsgruppe
Stortinget, N-0026 Oslo, Norway
Telephone: + 47 23 31 33 62
Fax: + 47 23 31 38 72
E-mail: venstre.postmottak@stortinget.no
Link to the party's hompage: The Liberals (in English)

 

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Last updated 04.10.2005