The 1987 Norwegian Local Elections: A Protest Election with a Swing to the Right
In: Scandinavian political studies, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 211-234
ISSN: 1467-9477
In one way. Norway's local elections would seem to he a deviant case a protest election with a landslide victory to a recently established neo‐liberalistic party, greater volatility among the voters, and an unusually low turnout. However, the election survey and other electoral statistics reveal a continuation and reinforcement of social and regional trends in voting patterns, trends which have emerged during recent elections.