Norway’s Progress Party Doubles Vote Share in Major Right-Wing Surge

Nor­way’s Progress Par­ty achieved a dra­mat­ic surge by dou­bling its vote share to near­ly 24% and secur­ing sec­ond place in the coun­try’s gen­er­al elec­tion. On 9 Sep­tem­ber 2025, the BBC report­ed that the anti-immi­gra­tion par­ty led by Sylvi Listhaug made the biggest gains of any par­ty, win­ning 48 seats in the 169-seat Stort­ing par­lia­ment, though Labour’s Jonas Gahr Støre secured a sec­ond term as prime min­is­ter with 28.2% of the vote. The arti­cle begins:

Nor­way’s Labour par­ty under Jonas Gahr Støre has won a sec­ond term in gen­er­al elec­tions, ahead of a pop­ulist right-wing par­ty that dou­bled its vote. In a coun­try used to minor­i­ty gov­ern­ments, Labour has a chance of form­ing a nar­row two-seat major­i­ty in the 169-seat Stort­ing, if it secures the sup­port of four small­er par­ties on the cen­tre left. Nor­way’s four mil­lion vot­ers came out in big num­bers, and the turnout of 78.9% was the biggest for years. The anti-immi­gra­tion Progress Par­ty of Sylvi Listhaug made the biggest gains, secur­ing almost 24% of the vote and 48 seats. Jonas Gahr Støre, 65, told jubi­lant sup­port­ers that even though right-wing forces were on the rise in Europe, social demo­c­rat par­ties could still win elections.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq65255l27qo

Key Points

• Progress Par­ty leader Sylvi Listhaug’s anti-immi­gra­tion plat­form res­onat­ed with vot­ers con­cerned about ris­ing liv­ing costs.
• The par­ty’s dra­mat­ic vote increase reflects a broad­er Euro­pean trend of gains by right-wing populists.
• Despite the surge, the Progress Par­ty can­not form a coali­tion as right-wing par­ties fell short of a par­lia­men­tary majority.
• Listhaug warned sup­port­ers of “four tough years ahead” under a con­tin­ued Labour-led government.

The Progress Par­ty (Frem­skrittspar­ti­et, FrP) of Nor­way was found­ed in 1973 by Anders Lange as an anti-tax protest move­ment, and grad­u­al­ly evolved into a full-fledged right-wing par­ty under the lead­er­ship of Carl I. Hagen (1978–2006).

For more on the Progress Par­ty, go here.

National Conservative Election Gains Surge Across Europe and America

The Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance has achieved sig­nif­i­cant elec­toral momen­tum across Europe through coor­di­nat­ed far-right move­ments, which now lead polling for the first time in Europe’s three largest economies. Ger­many’s Alter­na­tive for Ger­many par­ty reached 26% in nation­al polling, sur­pass­ing Chan­cel­lor Friedrich Merz’s con­ser­v­a­tive bloc for the first time, while achiev­ing con­cen­trat­ed gains in strug­gling regions where the par­ty won 30% of coun­cil votes in post-indus­tri­al cities like Gelsenkirchen. France’s Nation­al Ral­ly main­tains a con­sis­tent polling lead, with Jor­dan Bardel­la achiev­ing 36% approval rat­ings. Mean­while, Britain’s Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, has surged ahead of both the Labour and Con­ser­v­a­tive par­ties, which have dom­i­nat­ed British pol­i­tics for a cen­tu­ry. Spain’s VOX par­ty has expe­ri­enced unprece­dent­ed growth, with a quar­ter of vot­ers under 24 sup­port­ing the anti-immi­gra­tion plat­form while steal­ing over 800,000 vot­ers from the con­ser­v­a­tive Pop­u­lar Par­ty in the past year alone. Hun­gary’s Fidesz par­ty main­tained pow­er through sov­er­eign­ty pro­tec­tion mea­sures tar­get­ing for­eign-fund­ed NGOs dur­ing the 2022 par­lia­men­tary elec­tions. Mean­while, Don­ald Trump’s 2024 elec­toral vic­to­ry has inten­si­fied for­eign influ­ence oper­a­tions tar­get­ing right-wing media to cap­i­tal­ize on Repub­li­can con­trol of the gov­ern­ment.

Exter­nal References:

• Ger­man con­ser­v­a­tives lead elec­tion with far-right AfD in sec­ond place, exit polls show
• Spain: VOX Now Most Pop­u­lar Par­ty for Young Voters
• Why young Euro­peans are embrac­ing the far right
• Pop­ulist Right-Wing Par­ties Lead Polls in Europe’s Biggest Economies

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