Socialist People's Party (Norway)

Socialist People's Party
Sosialistisk Folkeparti
Founded16 April 1961
Dissolved30 April 1976
Split fromLabour Party
Merged intoSocialist Left Party
Youth wingSocialist Youth League (1963–69)
Socialist People's Youth (from 1969)
IdeologySocialism
Popular socialism
Political positionLeft-wing
National affiliationSocialist Electoral League (1973–75)

The Socialist People's Party (Norwegian: Sosialistisk Folkeparti) was a splinter group of the Norwegian Labour Party (DNA) founded in 1961. SF was principally dissatisfied with the pro-NATO/European Economic Community external policies of DNA. A group centered on the magazine Orientering had been expelled from DNA. The party merged into the Socialist Left Party in 1976.[1]

History

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In the mid-1960s, the youth organization of SF, Socialist Youth League (Sosialistisk Ungdomsfylking), started moving towards revolutionary Marxism, leading to a split in 1969. The SUF broke away, renamed itself SUF(m-l) and launched the Workers' Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) (which merged with the Red Electoral Alliance in 2007 to launch the new Red Party).

Following the split, Socialist People's Youth (Sosialistisk Folkepartis Ungdom) became the new SF youth wing. SF lost parliamentary representation in 1969; however, in 1972 a DNA MP, Arne Kielland, joined SF.

SF was the driving force behind the formation of Socialist Electoral League, which later emerged into Socialist Left Party. SV can be seen as the direct successor of the SF.

SF party leaders

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Electoral results

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Parliamentary elections

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Storting
Date Votes Seats Position Size
No. % ± pp No. ±
1961 43,996 2.4 New
2 / 150
New Support (1961–1963) 8th
Opposition (1963)
Support (from 1963)
1965 122,721 6.0 Increase 3.5
2 / 150
Steady 2 Opposition Increase 6th
1969 73,284 3.4 Decrease 2.6
0 / 150
Decrease 2 Extra-parliamentary Decrease 6th
1973
13 / 155
Increase 13 Support Increase 5th
Local
Year Vote % Type
1963 2.8 Municipal
1967 5.1 Municipal
1971 4.0 Municipal

References

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  1. ^ "Sosialistisk Folkeparti" [Socialist People's Party]. Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). 7 October 2011.