The opposition won the local elections for the first time in 99 years
The unofficial results of yesterday’s local elections in Norway have been announced.
According to the first results, the center-right conservative party “Hoeyre” won the elections with 25.9 percent of the votes.
The Labor Party, led by Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, came in second with 21.7 percent of the vote.
Erna Solberg
FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1924…
It was claimed that Hoeyre received 6 per cent more votes compared to the local elections held in 2019, while the Labor Party saw a decline of approximately 3 per cent.
It should be noted that the Labor Party was not the party that received the most votes in the local elections for the first time since 1924.
Former Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg of the Hoeyre Party stated that she wants to be leader again and stated that the 99-year tradition has been broken and said: “Let’s use the progress of these elections as a great motivation for the election campaign in 2025 ” she said she.
In Norway, which has a total population of approximately 5.4 million, local elections are held every four years. This year’s election was reported to have seen a voting rate of more than 62 percent, with a total of 4.3 million voters.