Centre Party
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centrist and agrarian political party in Norway
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- Sp
- Leader
- Trygve Slagsvold Vedum
- Parliamentary leader
- Trygve Slagsvold Vedum
- Founded
- 19 May 1920 ; 106 years ago ( 1920-05-19 )
- Headquarters
- Akersgata 35, Oslo
- Youth wing
- Centre Youth
- Membership 2024
- 15,783
- Ideology
- Agrarianism ( Nordic ) Economic nationalism Euroscepticism
- Political position
- Centre
- Nordic affiliation
- Centre Group
- Colours
- Green
- Slogan
- Nær folk , ('Close to people')
- Storting
- 9 / 169
- County councils
- 106 / 574
- County mayors
- 2 / 15
- Municipal councils
- 1,274 / 9,344
- Municipal mayors
- 86 / 357
- Sami parliament
- 0 / 39
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Guovddášbellodat
- Official website
- senterpartiet.no
- Motto
- «Vi tror på hele Norge»
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- Commons category
- Senterpartiet
- inception
- 1920-06-19
- sRGB color hex triplet
- 008542
- short name
- Sp
- native label
- Senterpartiet
- member count
- 19860
- social media followers
- 24189
- number of seats in assembly
- 28
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The Centre Party (Norwegian: Senterpartiet, Sp; Northern Sami: Guovddášbellodat), formerly the Farmer's Party (Norwegian: Bondepartiet, Bp), is an agrarian political party in Norway.
Ideologically, the Centre Party is positioned in the centre on the political spectrum, it advocates for economic nationalist and protectionist policy to protect Norwegian farmers with toll tariffs, and it supports decentralisation. It was founded in 1920 as the Farmers' Party (Norwegian: Bondepartiet, Bp) and from its founding until 2000, the Centre Party joined only governments not led by the Labour Party, although it had previously supported a Labour government in the 1930s. This turned around in 2005, when the party joined the red–green coalition government led by the Labour Party. Governments headed by prime ministers from the party include the short-lived Kolstad and Hundseid's Cabinet between 1931 and 1933 and the longer-lasting Borten's Cabinet from 1965 until 1971.