2025 Norwegian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Norway on 8 September 2025 to elect the members of the Storting for the 2025–2029 parliamentary term.^[1][2]

2025 Norwegian parliamentary election

← 2021 8 September 2025

All 169 seats in the Storting 85 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader Current seats Labour Jonas Gahr Støre 48 Conservative Erna Solberg 36 Centre Trygve Slagsvold Vedum 28 Progress Sylvi Listhaug 21 Socialist Left Kirsti Bergstø 13 Red Marie Sneve Martinussen 8 Liberal Guri Melby 8 Green Arild Hermstad 3 Christian Democratic Dag Inge Ulstein 3 Patient Focus Irene Ojala 1 Distribution of seats by electoral district Incumbent Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre Labour

Background

Jonas Gahr Støre became the prime minister of Norway after the 2021 election

In the 2021 Norwegian parliamentary election, the Labour Party emerged victorious, defeating the Conservative Party of Erna Solberg. After the elections, Jonas Gahr Støre, the leader of the Labour Party, started talks about the formation of a new government with the Centre Party and Socialist Left Party.^[3] The Socialist Left Party backed down from negotations due to disagreements over environmental and welfare policies.^[4] The Labour Party and the Centre Party then negotiated on forming a minority government,^[5] which was officialised in October 2021.^[6] Støre was sworn in as the prime minister of Norway on 14 October 2021.^[7]

Throughout the existence of his cabinet, however, they relied on support from the Socialist Left Party.^[8] The Centre Party left the governing coalition over disagreements with the Labour Party on energy policy relating to the European Union, resulting in the first one-party government in 25 years.^[9] Eight cabinet ministers from the Centre Party were replaced,^[10] including Centre Party leader and minister of finance Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, who was succeeded by former Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.^[11]

Ministerial resignations

Since 2021, Støre's government saw changes due to resignations of several ministers. Hadia Tajik, the minister of labour and social inclusion, was the first to resign in March 2022 due to alleged tax fraud from 2006.^[12][13][14] She was succeeded as minister by Marte Mjøs Persen.^[15] A month later, Odd Roger Enoksen resigned as minister of defence after sexual harassment allegations.^[16] He was succeeded by Bjørn Arild Gram.^[17]

A year later, in June 2023, Nettavisen reported that minister Anette Trettebergstuen was involved in a cronyist case by appointing colleagues to the board of Norsk Tipping.^[18] Aftenposten also reported that she had also nominated a close friend to the board of the Oslo Opera House.^[19] Trettebergstuen resigned as minister later that month and was succeeded by Lubna Jaffery.^[20] A month later, Ola Borten Moe resigned as minister,^[21] while Anniken Huitfeldt was dismissed in an October 2023 government reshuffle.^[22]

In January 2024, the Sandra Borch and Ingvild Kjerkol plagiarism affair occurred, which led to the resignation of ministers Sandra Borch and Ingvild Kjerkol.^[23][24]

Electoral system

The election uses party-list proportional representation in nineteen multi-member constituencies. The number of members to be returned from each constituency varies between 4 and 20. To determine the apportionment of the 169 seats amongst the 19 counties, a two-tier formula is used, based on population and geographic size. Each inhabitant counts one point, while each square kilometer counts 1.8 points. Each constituency is guarenteed 4 seats.^[25][26]

A total of 150 of the seats are regular constituency seats. These are awarded based on the election results in each county, and are unaffected by results in other counties. Nineteen of the seats (one for each county) are leveling seats, awarded to parties who win fewer seats than their share of the national popular vote otherwise entitles them to. A modification of the Sainte-Lague method, where the first quotient for each party is calculated using a divisor of 1.4 instead of 1, is used to allocate both the constituency and leveling seats. A party must win 4% of the popular vote in order to win levelling seats but may still win constituency seats even if it fails to reach this threshold. The system for apportioning seats is biased in favour of rural areas since the area of the county is a factor, but the system of compensation seats reduces the effect this has on final party strength.^[25][26]

Political parties

See also: List of political parties in Norway

The table below lists political parties elected to the Storting in the 2021 parliamentary election.

Name			Ideology	Position	Leader	2021 result
						Votes (%)	Seats
	Ap	Labour Party Arbeiderpartiet	Social democracy[27]	Centre-left[28]	Jonas Gahr Støre	26.3%	48 / 169
	H	Conservative Party Høyre	Liberal conservatism[29]	Centre-right[30]	Erna Solberg	20.4%	36 / 169
	Sp	Centre Party Senterpartiet	Agrarianism[31]	Centre[32]	Trygve Slagsvold Vedum	13.5%	28 / 169
	FrP	Progress Party Fremskrittspartiet	Right-wing populism[33]	Right-wing[34] to far-right[35]	Sylvi Listhaug	11.6%	21 / 169
	SV	Socialist Left Party Sosialistisk Venstreparti	Socialism[36]	Left-wing[37]	Kirsti Bergstø	7.6%	13 / 169
	R	Red Party Rødt	Marxism[38]	Left-wing[39] to far-left[40]	Marie Sneve Martinussen	4.7%	8 / 169
	V	Liberal Party Venstre	Liberalism[41]	Centre[42]	Guri Melby	4.6%	8 / 169
	MDG	Green Party Miljøpartiet De Grønne	Green politics	Centre-left[43]	Arild Hermstad	3.9%	3 / 169
	KrF	Christian Democratic Party Kristelig Folkeparti	Christian democracy[44]	Centre-right[45]	Dag Inge Ulstein	3.8%	3 / 169
	PF	Patient Focus Pasientfokus	Single-issue politics (health politics)[46]	—	Irene Ojala	0.2%	1 / 169
Source: Norwegian Directorate of Elections[47]

Campaign

Slogans

Party		Original slogan	English translation
	Labour Party	Trygghet for fremtida[48]	Safety for the future
	Conservative Party	Ingen slagord. Bare løsninger.[49]	No slogans. Only solutions.
	Centre Party	Hele Norge	All of Norway
	Progress Party	For folk flest	For most people
	Socialist Left Party	For de mange – ikke for de få	For the many – not for the few
	Red Party	Fordi fellesskap fungerer[50]	Because community works
	Liberal Party	Tenk nytt for Norge	Think new for Norway
	Green Party	Det ER mulig	It IS possible
	Christian Democratic Party	Bygge på verdier – skape verdier[51]	Building on values – creating values

Debates

2025 Norwegian general election debates
Date	Time	Organisers	P  Present    S  Surrogate   N  Non-invitee
			Ap	H	Sp	FrP	SV	R	V	MDG	KrF	Refs
18 December 2024	14:40	NRK	P Jonas Gahr Støre	N Erna Solberg	N Trygve Slagsvold Vedum	P Sylvi Listhaug	N Kirsti Bergstø	N Marie Sneve Martinussen	N Guri Melby	N Arild Hermstad	N Dag-Inge Ulstein	[52]
14 January 2025	21:15	NRK	P Jonas Gahr Støre	N Erna Solberg	N Trygve Slagsvold Vedum	P Sylvi Listhaug	N Kirsti Bergstø	N Marie Sneve Martinussen	N Guri Melby	N Arild Hermstad	N Dag-Inge Ulstein	[53]
30 January 2025	21:15	NRK	P Jonas Gahr Støre	P Erna Solberg	P Trygve Slagsvold Vedum	P Sylvi Listhaug	P Kirsti Bergstø	P Marie Sneve Martinussen	S Sveinung Rotevatn	S Ingrid Liland [no]	P Dag-Inge Ulstein	[54]
6 February 2025	21:15	NRK	P Jonas Gahr Støre	P Erna Solberg	N Trygve Slagsvold Vedum	P Sylvi Listhaug	N Kirsti Bergstø	S Sofie Marhaug	N Guri Melby	N Arild Hermstad	N Dag-Inge Ulstein	[55]

Opinion polls

Main article: Opinion polling for the 2025 Norwegian parliamentary election

Local regression trend line of poll results from 13 September 2021 to the present day. Each line corresponds to a political party.

The following is the average of all polls conducted in August 2025.^[56]

Parties		Vote share	Seats
	Labour Party	27.6%	53
	Progress Party	21.7%	42
	Conservative Party	14.9%	27
	Socialist Left Party	6.5%	10
	Centre Party	6.0%	10
	Red	6.0%	10
	Liberal Party	4.6%	7
	Christian Democratic Party	4.4%	7
	Green Party	3.7%	3
	Others	4.8%	0
Blocs
	Red Bloc	49.8%	86
	Blue Bloc	45.6%	83