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Socialist People's Party (in
NorwegianNorwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
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Sosialistisk Folkeparti) was a splinter group of the
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(DNA). SF was principally dissatisfied with the pro-
NATO/
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external policies of DNA. A group centered around the magazine
Orientering had been expelled from DNA. SF was founded in 1961.
In the mid-1960s the youth organization of SF, Socialist Youth League (
Sosialistisk Ungdomsfylking), started moving towards revolutionary Marxism, leading to a split in 1969. The SUF broke away, renamed itself SUF(m-l) and launched the
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Following the split, Socialist People's Youth (
Sosialistisk Folkepartis Ungdom) became the new SF youth wing. SF lost parliamentary representation in 1969, but in 1972 a DNA MP, Arne Kielland, joined SF.
SF was the driving force behind the formation of Socialist Electoral League, which later emerged into
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. SV can be seen as the direct successor of the SF.
Election results, parliamentary elections 1961-1969
| Year |
Percentage of votes |
MPs |
| 1961 |
2.4% |
2 |
| 1965 |
6.0% |
2 |
| 1969 |
3.4% |
0 |
SF party leaders
- 1961-1969 : Knut Løfsnes
Knut Ingolf Løfsnes was a Norwegian resistance member, politician and lawyer. He was a central leader of the clandestine organization XU during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, leading the mid-Norway XU department from the Norwegian legation in Stockholm from 1942 to 1945...
- 1969-1971 : Torolv Solheim
Torolv Solheim was a Norwegian educator, essayist, resistance member and politician. He was originally a politician for the Communist Party of Norway, later a member of the Norwegian Labour Party, he was among the initiators of the Socialist People's Party, founded in 1961, and its chairman from...
- 1971-1973 : Finn Gustavsen
Finn Gustavsen was a Norwegian socialist politician active from 1945 to the late 1970s. He was noted for his uncompromising style and willingness to take contrarian stands....
- 1973-1975 : Stein Ørnhøi
Stein Ørnhøi is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party, he was the last party leader of the Socialist People's Party of Norway....