Right holds onto power narrowly in Norway
STOCKHOLM — The centre-right grouping that has governed Norway the past four years retained a narrow hold on power in national elections, according to near-complete results early Tuesday.
With 95 per cent of the votes counted, Prime Minister Erna Solberg’s Conservatives, coalition partner the Progress Party and two support parties, the Liberals and the Christian Democrats, looked likely to win a total of 89 seats in the 169-seat parliament, the Storting.
The election was a bitter disappointment for the leftist Labor Party. It remains the largest single party in parliament with 49 seats, but other likely coalition partners or support parties didn’t add enough to put the left in power.
There was no immediate announcement about forming a new government, but the four-party centre-right alliance appeared almost certain to continue.