Norway’s ruling Labour Party has won its best local election result in more than two decades, while the Conservatives edged out the anti-immigrant Progressives to become the country’s second largest party.
With 97 per cent of the votes counted on Tuesday in municipal elections, Labour has 33 per cent of the vote while the Conservatives have almost 28 per cent. The Progressive Party’s vote fell to 11.8 per cent from 18.5 per cent in the 2007 election.
The two-day election came seven weeks after an extremist slaughtered 69 people at a Labour Party youth camp and set off a car bomb outside government offices.
