Red Electoral Alliance (
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Rød Valgallianse,
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Raud Valallianse and abbreviated to
RV) (1973-2007) was an alliance of left wing groups formed into a Norwegian political party to promote revolutionary
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ideas in the
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. The party dissolved itself on March 10, 2007, when it participated in the founding of a new party,
RedRed is a Norwegian revolutionary socialist political party, founded on 11 March 2007. It is the result of a merger between Workers' Communist Party and Red Electoral Alliance . The leader of Red is Torstein Dahle, the previous leader of the Red Electoral Alliance...
(Rødt).
Raud Ungdom or Rød Ungdom (Red Youth) was their youth organization.
History
While it was formed in 1973 as an election front for the Worker's Communist Party (marxist-leninist) (in Norwegian:
Arbeidernes Kommunistparti (m-l), AKP(ml)), the Red Electoral Alliance became an independent party in 1991, and after that, it scrapped many
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ideas. It remained a revolutionary party that, promoting an ideology based upon
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.
From 1993 to 1997,
Erling FolkvordErling Folkvord is a Norwegian politician who represents Red, previously Red Electoral Alliance . He is the only member of Storting that the party has ever had....
represented RV in
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, the Norwegian parliament. In 1997, the party got their highest recorded percentage of votes with 1,7 %. In spite of this, Folkvord lost his seat and no new seats were won.
Torstein DahleTorstein Dahle is a Norwegian politician and economist. He works at the Bergen University College and represents Red in the city council of Bergen. Dahle was born in Oslo....
, an economist at
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, was elected leader in 2003 and re-elected in March 2005. Following the
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it was clear that their work to regain their place in the parliament had failed. They received 1.2% of the national total of votes. It was clear that in order to be represented in parliament, they had to win a large share of votes in
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or
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. However their best result was 3.4% in
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.
On 10 March 2007 the party dissolved itself, as it fusioned with the AKP into a new party,
RedRed is a Norwegian revolutionary socialist political party, founded on 11 March 2007. It is the result of a merger between Workers' Communist Party and Red Electoral Alliance . The leader of Red is Torstein Dahle, the previous leader of the Red Electoral Alliance...
, with Dahle as its leader. Due to Norwegian election laws, the name Red Electoral Alliance was kept for the 2007 local elections. The party currently has 57 representatives in town halls nationwide.
Party leaders
- 1973-1975 — Sigurd Allern
Sigurd Allern is a Norwegian media theorist and the first professor of journalism at the University of Oslo. He was also one of the central people in starting the Workers' Communist Party of Norway in the early 1970s, and was the first chairman of the party between 1973 and 1975 and at the same...
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- 1975-1979 — Pål Steigan
Pål Steigan is a former leader of the Workers' Communist Party and a writer, later an editor. He also runs his own firm, working with culture and ICT. During his term as leader of the AKP, Steigan visited Democratic Kampuchea and met leaders of Democratic Kampuchea including Pol Pot....
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- 1979-1981 — Hilde Haugsgjerd
- 1981-1983 — Finn Sjue
- 1983-1987 — Jahn Arne Olsen
- 1987-1995 — Aksel Nærstad
- 1995-1997 — Jørn Magdahl
Jørn Magdahl is a Norwegian politician.He was the leader of the Red Electoral Alliance from 1995 to 1997. He was succeeded by the more profiled Aslak Sira Myhre. He resides in Skallestad.-References:...
- 1997-2003 — Aslak Sira Myhre
Aslak Sira Myhre is a Norwegian politician and former party leader of Red Electoral Alliance . He currently is director of Litteraturhuset, part of Fritt Ord....
- 2003-2007 — Torstein Dahle
Torstein Dahle is a Norwegian politician and economist. He works at the Bergen University College and represents Red in the city council of Bergen. Dahle was born in Oslo....
1 Until 1979, the leader of AKP was also the leader of RV.
Parliamentary election results
| Year |
% of votes |
MPs |
| 1973 |
0.4% |
0 |
| 1977 |
0.6% |
0 |
| 1981 |
0.7% |
0 |
| 1985 |
0.6% |
0 |
| 1989 |
* |
0 |
| 1993 |
1.1% |
1 |
| 1997 |
1.7% |
0 |
| 2001 |
1.2% |
0 |
| 2005 |
1.2% |
0 |
*: In 1989 RV participated in an electoral alliance with other groups called
Fylkeslistene for miljø og solidaritet.
External links
Rød Valgallianse (Red Electoral Alliance) - Official web site
Rød Ungdom (Red Youth) - Official site of the youth party