Progress Party (Norway)
Year Vote ( county ) Vote ( municipal ) Party leader
1975 1.4% 0.8% Eivind Eckbo
1979 2.5% 1.9% Carl I. Hagen
1983 6.3% 5.3% Carl I. Hagen
1987 12.3% 10.4% Carl I. Hagen
1991 7.0% 6.5% Carl I. Hagen
1995 12.0% 10.5% Carl I. Hagen
1999 13.4% 12.1% Carl I. Hagen
2003 17.9% 16.4% Carl I. Hagen
2007 18.5% 17.5% Siv Jensen
2011 11.8% 11.4% Siv Jensen
2015 10.2% 9.5% Siv Jensen
2019 8.7% 8.2% Siv Jensen
Election results -- Local elections
The Progress Party (Bokmål: Fremskrittspartiet, Nynorsk: Framstegspartiet, commonly abbreviated as FrP) is a libertarian right-wing political party in Norway. The party values are focused on civil liberties, individualism, and limited government. It is the country's third largest political party, with 26 representatives in the Norwegian Storting. The party was a partner in Norway's centre-right government coalition. Its leader, Siv Jensen, served as Norway's Minister of Finance until withdrawing the party from the government in January 2020. Its policies support market liberalism, law and order, and downsizing the bureaucracy and the public sector. The Progress Party self-identifies as an economic liberal party which competes with the socialist left to represent the workers of Norway. The party advocates increased spending of Norway's Oil Fund on investments in infrastructure and aims to eliminate the existing budgetary rules which set a limit on such spending. The party has officially opposed Norwegian membership in the European Union since 2016, after having been neutral on the issue before. It is sometimes controversially described as populist. The party seeks a more restrictive immigration policy and improved integration. It is sometimes described as anti-immigration, although the party supports migration of labor from the EU through EEC as well as fulfillment of Norway's obligations to receive refugees through Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.