Key facts
- Abbreviation
- V
- Chairperson
- Guri Melby
- Founders
- Johan Sverdrup Søren Jaabæk ...and around 109 others
- Founded
- 28 January 1884 ; 142 years ago ( 1884-01-28 )
- Headquarters
- Møllergata 16, 0179 Oslo
- Student wing
- Liberal Students of Norway
- Youth wing
- Young Liberals of Norway
- Membership 2024
- 7,832
- Ideology
- Liberalism ( Norwegian ), Social liberalism , Green liberalism , Republicanism , Historical: , Classical radicalism
- Political position
- Centre to centre-right
- European affiliation
- Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
- International affiliation
- Liberal International , Historical: , Radical International
- Nordic affiliation
- Centre Group
- Colours
- Teal
- Storting
- 3 / 169
- County councils
- 39 / 728
- County mayors
- 0 / 15
- Municipal councils
- 280 / 10,781
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Encyclopedic overview
The Liberal Party (Norwegian: Venstre, lit. 'Left', V; Northern Sami: Gurutbellodat) is a social liberal political party in Norway. It was founded in 1884 and is the oldest political party in Norway. The Liberal Party is positioned on the centre to centre-right of the political spectrum. It is a liberal party which has over time enacted reforms such as parliamentarism, freedom of religion, universal suffrage, and state schooling.
For most of the late 19th and early 20th century, it was Norway's largest and most dominant political party. Later, in the postwar era it lost most of its support and became a smaller party. The party has nevertheless participated in several centrist and centre-right government coalitions in the postwar era and it is aligned with the country's centre-right bloc alongside the Conservative Party, Christian Democratic Party and the Progress Party. Guri Melby has served as the party leader since 2020.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Liberal Party” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.