I don’t understand the question.. I would suggest OP googles how Norway isn’t a a two party state and learn how Norwegian politics work
Because it was tremendously popular after WW2 and they did some good and people got used to it even when they abandoned their old politics.
No, that time passed in the 60’s.
At least to their voters they are 😜
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While Norway has a multi-party system, each polical bloc (left/red-green/socialist and right/blue/conservative) has a dominant party. It makes a certain amount of sense in that it creates a stable and predicatable political environment. A lot of voters will choose one of these parties because they are moderate parties with broad appeal. People like knowing what they vote for and also to vote for a winner. Voting for the major party in the bloc provides this, while also making it relatively painless to opt for a smaller party if you want to, as it tends to be clear how that will affect the bigger picture.
As for Labour usually being slightly larger than the Conservatives, my hypothesis is that it’s because parties of the left are more natural “parties of the people”, mostly advocating for policies targeting the more populous working class. Ostensibly, parties of the traditional right serve a smaller, but more influential and reliable voter base — namely the educated and wealthy elites. Their voter base is in a sense inflated in that some people vote for them aspirationally, but it’s not enough to make up the gap with Labour.
In recent years, there has also been a rise of the Progress Party as a third large party. As they are further to the right than the Conservatives, they eat away more at the Conservatives vote share than Labour’s. In the election just gone, Progress even leapfrogged the Conservatives to become the party of the opposition.
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I don’t understand the question.. I would suggest OP googles how Norway isn’t a a two party state and learn how Norwegian politics work
Because it was tremendously popular after WW2 and they did some good and people got used to it even when they abandoned their old politics.
No, that time passed in the 60’s.
At least to their voters they are 😜
Word salad
While Norway has a multi-party system, each polical bloc (left/red-green/socialist and right/blue/conservative) has a dominant party. It makes a certain amount of sense in that it creates a stable and predicatable political environment. A lot of voters will choose one of these parties because they are moderate parties with broad appeal. People like knowing what they vote for and also to vote for a winner. Voting for the major party in the bloc provides this, while also making it relatively painless to opt for a smaller party if you want to, as it tends to be clear how that will affect the bigger picture.
As for Labour usually being slightly larger than the Conservatives, my hypothesis is that it’s because parties of the left are more natural “parties of the people”, mostly advocating for policies targeting the more populous working class. Ostensibly, parties of the traditional right serve a smaller, but more influential and reliable voter base — namely the educated and wealthy elites. Their voter base is in a sense inflated in that some people vote for them aspirationally, but it’s not enough to make up the gap with Labour.
In recent years, there has also been a rise of the Progress Party as a third large party. As they are further to the right than the Conservatives, they eat away more at the Conservatives vote share than Labour’s. In the election just gone, Progress even leapfrogged the Conservatives to become the party of the opposition.
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