The 2025 election campaign is over, the voters have decided and given Norway a new red-green majority. For the first time since 1993, a single-party government has been re-elected.

The incumbent Labour Party government will continue as it is today. To signal continuity and stability, it is highly likely that Prime Minister Støre will choose to retain most of his ministers, at least for the time being.

Executive summary:

• The Labour government continues with a red-green majority but will be dependent on all the parties on its side of the spectrum.
• The government must therefore negotiate state budgets with the Red Party, the Socialist Left Party, the Green Party, and the Centre Party, but is in principle freer on other issues.
• The state budgets will function as a kind of “mini” government platform through the so-called verbal proposals – political decisions without immediate budgetary consequences. In particular, the Socialist Left and the Red Party (and possibly the Greens) will try to anchor the government to the left through these verbal proposals.

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Stian Valla Taraldsvik, Partner
First House