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Political parties' financing
Income and costs are shown, based on the annual accounts of political parties at municipal, county and central level, including youth organisations at central and county level, which have an obligation to report accounts under the Political Party Act. Approximately 95 per cent of the total income of all parties is covered.
Selected figures from these statistics
- Funding of political parties, total all political parties by source of income. NOK and per centDownload table as ...Funding of political parties, total all political parties by source of income. NOK and per cent
2024 Total Per cent Income, total 951 059 180 100.0 Government subsidy, total 599 097 238 63.0 Central government subsidy 506 491 659 53.3 Municipal/county subsidy 79 185 291 8.3 Other government subsidy 13 420 288 1.4 Own business, total 225 113 355 23.7 Membership fee 70 088 784 7.4 Income from lotteries and similar 8 500 241 0.9 Capital income 98 629 787 10.4 Business activity 17 170 864 1.8 Other income from own business 30 723 679 3.2 Contributions, total 126 848 587 13.3 Private contributions 35 562 045 3.7 Contributions from commercial enterprises 38 788 873 4.1 Contributions from employers' and labour organizations 16 665 127 1.8 Contributions from other 35 832 542 3.8 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Funding of political parties by source and political party. NOKDownload table as ...Funding of political parties by source and political party. NOK1
Total Christian Democratic Party Liberal Party Socialist Left Party Labour Party Progress Party Conservative Party Centre Party Red Party The Pensioners' Party Democratic Party of Norway Green Party Communist Party of Norway The Christians The Welfare and Innovation Party Folkeaksjonen Nei til mer bompenger 2024 Income, total 951 059 180 50 346 007 46 313 312 67 631 492 271 164 793 108 197 189 206 340 773 86 868 393 53 113 015 4 328 537 5 424 777 40 021 152 603 144 2 647 157 .. : Government subsidy, total 599 097 238 32 144 866 30 012 554 46 234 228 150 024 256 67 439 400 133 967 067 66 705 671 30 923 928 3 206 120 4 458 265 26 815 939 65 578 1 325 238 .. : Central government subsidy 506 491 659 23 007 238 26 436 261 39 581 192 124 514 921 58 432 324 111 596 688 59 644 108 26 091 088 2 581 557 4 341 810 23 802 007 40 748 1 298 475 .. : Municipal/county subsidy 79 185 291 2 154 924 2 785 937 6 349 749 25 143 699 8 895 282 20 530 638 6 190 516 3 547 715 624 563 116 455 2 143 334 24 830 26 763 .. : Other government subsidy 13 420 288 6 982 704 790 356 303 287 365 636 111 794 1 839 741 871 047 1 285 125 0 0 870 598 0 0 .. : Own business, total 225 113 355 13 980 718 8 599 028 11 716 960 99 268 974 16 416 751 36 835 923 16 245 358 9 538 624 1 113 858 950 475 7 209 175 429 991 778 706 .. : Membership fee 70 088 784 7 257 205 3 320 485 4 627 667 11 973 319 6 304 133 15 309 466 6 727 821 6 536 611 396 535 532 758 4 408 422 220 750 724 160 .. : Income from lotteries and similar 8 500 241 960 309 995 070 142 739 1 504 719 2 824 392 590 536 527 059 771 656 52 955 0 1 079 296 26 733 .. : Capital income 98 629 787 2 393 290 1 384 151 2 978 859 74 622 986 3 160 147 11 946 427 1 169 031 697 150 48 175 1 749 91 816 129 623 33 .. : Business activity 17 170 864 2 776 737 190 217 707 141 8 362 842 3 334 1 298 387 853 381 72 881 121 898 412 080 2 356 363 10 683 0 .. : Other income from own business 30 723 679 593 177 2 709 105 3 260 554 2 805 108 4 124 745 7 691 107 6 968 066 1 460 326 494 295 3 888 351 495 68 639 27 780 .. : Contributions, total 126 848 587 4 220 423 7 701 730 9 680 304 21 871 563 24 341 038 35 537 783 3 917 364 12 650 463 8 559 16 037 5 996 038 107 575 543 213 .. : Private contributions 35 562 045 523 514 2 628 083 5 814 545 3 344 495 1 367 807 5 714 583 719 009 10 521 974 3 559 13 420 4 332 404 87 575 442 464 .. : Contributions from commercial enterprises 38 788 873 69 444 1 330 736 63 107 54 899 18 081 242 18 728 872 250 000 0 0 0 146 073 0 35 000 .. : Contributions from employers' and labour organizations 16 665 127 0 0 1 730 995 13 815 328 2 000 95 210 1 005 000 11 500 0 0 5 094 0 0 .. : Contributions, from other 35 832 542 3 627 465 3 742 911 2 071 657 4 656 841 4 889 989 10 999 118 1 943 355 2 116 989 5 000 2 617 1 512 467 20 000 65 749 .. : 1The Parties where less than 3 party units has reported their accounts, or that the party units have only reported a statement, are excluded in the table because data which should be made public are not available Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Funding of political parties by source of income and political party. Per centDownload table as ...Funding of political parties by source of income and political party. Per cent1
Total Christian Democratic Party Liberal Party Socialist Left Party Labour Party Progress Party Conservative Party Centre Party Red Party The Pensioners' Party Democratic Party of Norway Green Party Communist Party of Norway The Christians The Welfare and Innovation Party Folkeaksjonen Nei til mer bompenger 2024 Income, total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 .. : Government subsidy, total 63.0 63.8 64.8 68.4 55.3 62.3 64.9 76.8 58.2 74.1 82.2 67.0 10.9 50.1 .. : Central government subsidy 53.3 45.7 57.1 58.5 45.9 54.0 54.1 68.7 49.1 59.6 80.0 59.5 6.8 49.1 .. : Municipal/county subsidy 8.3 4.3 6.0 9.4 9.3 8.2 9.9 7.1 6.7 14.4 2.1 5.4 4.1 1.0 .. : Other government subsidy 1.4 13.9 1.7 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.9 1.0 2.4 0.0 0.0 2.2 0.0 0.0 .. : Own business, total 23.7 27.8 18.6 17.3 36.6 15.2 17.9 18.7 18.0 25.7 17.5 18.0 71.3 29.4 .. : Membership fee 7.4 14.4 7.2 6.8 4.4 5.8 7.4 7.7 12.3 9.2 9.8 11.0 36.6 27.4 .. : Income from lotteries and similar 0.9 1.9 2.1 0.2 0.6 2.6 0.3 0.6 1.5 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 .. : Capital income 10.4 4.8 3.0 4.4 27.5 2.9 5.8 1.3 1.3 1.1 0.0 0.2 21.5 0.0 .. : Business activity 1.8 5.5 0.4 1.0 3.1 0.0 0.6 1.0 0.1 2.8 7.6 5.9 1.8 0.0 .. : Other income from own business 3.2 1.2 5.8 4.8 1.0 3.8 3.7 8.0 2.7 11.4 0.1 0.9 11.4 1.0 .. : Contributions, total 13.3 8.4 16.6 14.3 8.1 22.5 17.2 4.5 23.8 0.2 0.3 15.0 17.8 20.5 .. : Private contributions 3.7 1.0 5.7 8.6 1.2 1.3 2.8 0.8 19.8 0.1 0.2 10.8 14.5 16.7 .. : Contributions from commercial enterprises 4.1 0.1 2.9 0.1 0.0 16.7 9.1 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.0 1.3 .. : Contributions from employers' and labour organizations 1.8 0.0 0.0 2.6 5.1 0.0 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 .. : Contributions from other 3.7 7.2 8.1 3.1 1.8 4.5 5.3 2.2 4.0 0.1 0.0 3.8 3.3 2.5 .. : 1The Parties where less than 3 party units has reported their accounts, or that the party units have only reported a statement, are excluded in the table because data which should be made public are not available Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Party financing, accounts per political party. NOKDownload table as ...Party financing, accounts per political party. NOK1
2024 Total Christian Democratic Party Liberal Party Socialist Left Party Labour Party Progress Party Conservative Party Centre Party Red Party The Pensioners' Party Democratic Party of Norway Green Party Communist Party of Norway The Christians The Welfare and Innovation Party Folkeaksjonen Nei til mer bompenger Income, total 951 059 180 50 346 007 46 313 312 67 631 492 271 164 793 108 197 189 206 340 773 86 868 393 53 113 015 4 328 537 5 424 777 40 021 152 603 144 2 647 157 .. : Government subsidy, total 599 097 238 32 144 866 30 012 554 46 234 228 150 024 256 67 439 400 133 967 067 66 705 671 30 923 928 3 206 120 4 458 265 26 815 939 65 578 1 325 238 .. : Own business, total 225 113 355 13 980 718 8 599 028 11 716 960 99 268 974 16 416 751 36 835 923 16 245 358 9 538 624 1 113 858 950 475 7 209 175 429 991 778 706 .. : Contributions, total 126 848 587 4 220 423 7 701 730 9 680 304 21 871 563 24 341 038 35 537 783 3 917 364 12 650 463 8 559 16 037 5 996 038 107 575 543 213 .. : Total costs 677 548 874 46 370 693 35 582 951 55 036 599 179 292 624 66 211 648 127 526 365 81 537 308 33 952 561 3 434 783 4 042 500 34 606 279 486 756 2 432 405 .. : Salary costs 308 696 258 23 904 498 18 302 932 27 377 607 83 029 489 16 802 897 64 527 058 34 973 829 17 796 209 383 487 786 736 18 988 606 0 1 018 435 .. : Other operating costs 366 072 134 21 864 391 17 060 822 27 629 555 95 395 886 49 320 858 62 351 711 46 473 451 16 003 741 3 025 183 3 243 704 15 595 936 473 154 1 412 673 .. : Finance costs 2 780 482 601 804 219 197 29 437 867 249 87 893 647 596 90 028 152 611 26 113 12 060 21 737 13 602 1 297 .. : Result 273 510 306 3 975 314 10 730 361 12 594 893 91 872 169 41 985 541 78 814 408 5 331 085 19 160 454 893 754 1 382 277 5 414 873 116 388 214 752 .. : 1The Parties where less than 3 party units has reported their accounts, or that the party units have only reported a statement, are excluded in the table because data which should be made public are not available. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Party financing, accounts per political party. Per cent.,Download table as ...Party financing, accounts per political party. Per cent.,1
2024 Total Christian Democratic Party Liberal Party Socialist Left Party Labour Party Progress Party Conservative Party Centre Party Red Party The Pensioners' Party Democratic Party of Norway Green Party Communist Party of Norway The Christians The Welfare and Innovation Party Folkeaksjonen Nei til mer bompenger Income, total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 .. : Government subsidy, total 63.0 63.8 64.8 68.4 55.3 62.3 64.9 76.8 58.2 74.1 82.2 67.0 10.9 50.1 .. : Own business, total 23.7 27.8 18.6 17.3 36.6 15.2 17.9 18.7 18.0 25.7 17.5 18.0 71.3 29.4 .. : Contributions, total 13.3 8.4 16.6 14.3 8.1 22.5 17.2 4.5 23.8 0.2 0.3 15.0 17.8 20.5 .. : Total costs 71.2 92.1 76.8 81.4 66.1 61.2 61.8 93.9 63.9 79.4 74.5 86.5 80.7 91.9 .. : Salary costs 32.5 47.5 39.5 40.5 30.6 15.5 31.3 40.3 33.5 8.9 14.5 47.4 0.0 38.5 .. : Other operating costs 38.5 43.4 36.8 40.9 35.2 45.6 30.2 53.5 30.1 69.9 59.8 39.0 78.4 53.4 .. : Finance costs 0.3 1.2 0.5 0.0 0.3 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.3 0.6 0.2 0.1 2.3 0.0 .. : Result 28.8 7.9 23.2 18.6 33.9 38.8 38.2 6.1 36.1 20.6 25.5 13.5 19.3 8.1 .. : 1The Parties where less than 3 party units has reported their accounts, or that the party units have only reported a statement, are excluded in the table because data which should be made public are not available. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Funding of political parties, cost accounts by activity and political party. NOKDownload table as ...Funding of political parties, cost accounts by activity and political party. NOK1 2
2024 Total cost by activity Administration costs General political party activity¿s costs Election campaign¿s costs Total 677 767 566 332 778 148 323 329 860 21 659 558 Christian Democratic Party 46 370 693 10 661 746 35 619 526 89 421 Liberal Party 35 582 950 23 299 512 11 026 185 1 257 253 Socialist Left Party 55 036 599 36 285 749 15 489 662 3 261 188 Labour Party 179 294 487 84 196 776 92 413 460 2 684 251 Progress Party 66 216 333 21 677 790 42 944 674 1 593 869 Conservative Party 127 559 409 89 634 507 32 335 283 5 589 619 Centre Party 81 537 308 23 633 353 57 639 830 264 125 Red Party 34 131 661 20 318 583 13 186 778 626 300 The Pensioners' Party 3 434 783 918 981 2 380 689 135 113 Democratic Party of Norway 4 042 500 1 561 617 1 493 957 986 926 Green Party 34 606 280 15 276 879 14 855 935 4 473 466 Communist Party of Norway 486 756 184 160 275 283 27 313 The Christians 2 432 405 1 730 787 529 527 172 091 The Welfare and Innovation Party .. .. .. .. Folkeaksjonen Nei til mer bompenger : : : : 1Costs by activity comprise total costs. According to the Political Parties Act total costs shall be divided by type and by activity. The table 5 presents income, costs by type and result. This table (11319) presents costs divided by main activity groups. The total can differ from total costs by type due to non-consistent data from the political party units. Further information see “About the statistics”. 2The Parties where less than 3 party units has reported their accounts, or that the party units have only reported a statement, are excluded in the table because data which should be made public are not available Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Central government subsidy by poltical party. NOKDownload table as ...Central government subsidy by poltical party. NOK1 2
2024 Total Of which youth's poltical organisations Total 528 151 819 40 779 000 Christian Democratic Party 23 857 785 1 597 448 Liberal Party 27 644 516 1 928 102 Socialist Left Party 41 099 148 3 126 793 Labour Party 126 205 705 10 090 208 Progress Party 61 412 384 5 033 848 Conservative Party 113 304 782 11 027 173 Centre Party 62 404 681 3 915 079 Red Party 26 234 274 1 414 136 Democratic Party of Norway 4 487 890 142 147 Coastal Party 2 250 - The Pensioners' Party 4 453 111 79 301 Green Party 24 998 737 1 912 734 Communist Party of Norway 61 957 1 256 The Pirate Party of Norway 253 852 - The Christians 1 868 310 43 594 The Welfare and Innovation Party 749 651 27 079 Folkeaksjonen Nei til mer bompenger 602 388 . 1The table incudes all units of political parties which have sent either a full report or a statement according the annual income received. For those units which have reported an income less than NOK 12 000 except government subsidies, the amounts used in the table are according to information received from the County Governor of Sogn og Fjordane or from the Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation. The County Governor disburses the governmental funding on municipal and county level, the Ministry to the central organisations. For those units which have reported that mentioned income exceeded the amount of NOK 12 000, the amount reported from the unit itself has been used. 2The Parties where less than 3 party units has reported their accounts, or that the party units have only reported a statement, are excluded in the table because data which should be made public are not available. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
About the statistics
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 4 June 2021.
Registered political party
A political party that is registered in the Party register at the Brønnøysund Register Centre according to the regulation in the Party Act, ref. § 3, http://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-102.
Central government subsidy
Funding according to the Party Act § 11.
Municipal/county subsidy
Additional funding on a voluntary basis from the county or the municipality.
Other public subsidy
Other public funding not covered by central government subsidy or municipal/county subsidy.
Membership fee
The total income from membership fees.
Income from lotteries, fund-raising events and similar
Income from lotteries, fund-raising events and similar.
Capital income
Income from interest and stock dividends etc. excluding uncollected gains. Unrealised gains are not to be entered as gains according to the accounting principles of the Political Party Act. Financial assets are to be entered at purchase cost as long as they are not realised.
Income from business activity
Income from own business activity. This includes, among other things, income from the sale of advertisement effects.
Other income from own business
All income not covered by membership fees, income from lotteries, fund-raising events and similar, capital income or income from business activity.
Private contributions
Includes all gifts of money from private donors and all other non-monetary contributions from the same donors when the limit for identifying the contributors is exceeded.
Contributions from commercial enterprises
Includes all gifts of money made by commercial enterprises and all other non-monetary contributions from the same donors when the limit for identifying the contribution.
Name: Political parties' financing
Topic: Elections
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The reports from the political party units are to be made public individually according to the Political Parties Act § 22. The reports will be published on the website of the Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation, see www.partifinansiering.no.
The statistics were published for the first time in 2006. This publication is based on registered parties’ reports on their financial situation for the fiscal year 2017. According to the Political Parties Act, all organisational levels of the registered political parties are obliged to report to a central register. The statistics are published on the basis of these reports.
The Political Parties Act was revised on 1 February 2013. For 2013 and previous years, the political parties' organisations should only report on income.
The statistics have a wide spectrum of users and applications, such as the mass media, research institutions, educational establishments, political parties and individuals.
No external users have access to the statistics and analyses before they are published and accessible simultaneously for all users on ssb.no at 8 am. Prior to this, a minimum of three months' advance notice is given in the Statistics Release Calendar. This is one of Statistics Norway’s key principles for ensuring that all users are treated equally.
Statistics on election campaign contribution which is published every second year in connection with elections (https://www.ssb.no/en/valg/statistikker/valgkamp).
Political Parties Act §§ 18, 19, 20, 20a, 20b, 21 and Statistics Act §§ 10
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The data collection includes all organisational levels of the registered political parties in Norway, i.e. central, county and municipal level, as well as the central youth levels and the youth organisations at county level. The unit in the statistics is political parties.
According to the Political Parties Act § 18, the party organisations (units) with an income below a certain level excluding government subsidy are exempt from comprehensive reporting. These party units must submit a statement confirming that their income does not exceed the specified level. All other political party organisations have to report the full annual accounts, i.e. incomes, cost and balance sheet. The reports from the organisations exceeding the limit represent the basis for the statistics but for those parties where the number of reporting units is less than three.
The Political Parties Act was revised on 1 February 2013, setting the limit at NOK 12 000 with effect from the fiscal year of 2013. The previous year’s limit was NOK 10 000.
Parties Act. This register is held by Statistics Norway, cf. § 2-1 of the secondary act to the Political Parties Act. The register includes the reports from all registered parties at municipal, county and central Level, including youth organisations at central and county level. The central political parties have to be registered in the Political Party Register as part of the Brønnøysund Register Centre.
The Party Finance Register also contains a summary of all donors that, during the fiscal year, contributed money or gifts exceeding NOK 12 000 to parties at municipal level, NOK 23 000 to parties at county level and NOK 35 000 to parties at central level according to the revised act of 1 February 2013 (the previous levels were NOK 10 000, NOK 20 000 and NOK 30 000 respectively). This also applies to sponsors and creditors. Donors with whom the party organisation has entered into a written political or commercial agreement are to be identified independent of the amount donated.
Total count.
No additional sources to the Party Finance Register.
The questionnaire is prepared by Statistics Norway. The information is collected electronically through Altinn (the Norwegian public reporting portal) and a specific questionnaire (RA-0604). A few of the units have responded by returning a signed printed version of the Altinn questionnaire that have been handled manually.
The information is published in the same form as it is received by the Party Finance Register. Neither the registrar nor Statistics Norway, as the producer of the statistics, carries out any revisions of the data except for obvious errors in the reported data after consulting the respondent.
The statistical information is a calculation of income and cost summaries from the various organisational levels to the degree that the parties are required to report according to the Political Parties Act.
The statistics do not include internal transfers within the different political parties, neither as income nor as cost, since they balance each other in total, and would thus give an inflated amount. Neither are the balances of the units consolidated, and are thus not published as statistics. There is no statutory requirement for internal liabilities or debts to be specified or reported. Furthermore, there may be a large number of units that are included in the sample which have such liabilities and/or debts towards units not included. Thus, consolidation of the balance sheets would be misleading.
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The statistics were first published in 2006 (for the fiscal year 2005), and have since been published annually.
The revision of the Political Parties Act on 1 February 2013 entails a break in the homogeneity according to the organisations that are obliged to report comprehensively. For the years 2005 to 2012, all organisations with income except government subsidies of NOK 10 000 and more were obliged to report fully. For the fiscal year 2013 and later the limit was increased to NOK 12 000. The income of the political party organisations will differ over the years, especially between election and non-election years. Thus the number of organisations reporting comprehensively will depend on natural and formal changes. This may have an impact on the values published in the statistics.
The statistics for 2019 were based on reports from 883 units. For 2018, the statistics were based on 705 units (for 2017 766 units, 716 units in 2016, 781 units in 2015, 685 units in 2014, 693 units for 2013 and 634 units for 2012).
The data is reported by the units to the central register on forms submitted electronically. Different categories for entering the income, cost and balance sheet items are given in the form, including a category for party internal income transfers. Errors may occur when the different items are entered in the wrong category.
The Act requires gross revenues and costs to be reported. This means that revenue that is earmarked to cover specific costs or is to be transferred internally to other units within the same party must first be recognised as income and then as a cost (transfer to others) by the unit that originally received the amount. The amount shall be entered as income in an internal transfer by the units that have received such monies. Some units of the parties may have recorded such amounts as reimbursements, and reported the net amount, thus both the revenue and cost figures will be too low.
As an illustration, membership fees have been booked and reported at net value by some of the central political parties that received the fee from their members in 2013. A considerable part of the total was transferred to the local units. Due to the net booking, the membership fee reported for 2013 is too low and the increase in 2014 is misleading and too high. From 2015 and forward data may indicate that this error is reduced compared with 2014 and previous years.
The Political Party Act requires that all costs are divided by type and by activity. The cost shall be classified in two different ways. The total costs by type differ from total costs by activity due to non-consistent data from some of the political party units. Overall, the costs by activity are 0.12 per cent less than total costs by type.
The change in equity from 1 January to 31 December differs in some cases from the reported result. In some few cases, this may be due to capital contribution or withdrawal only booked in the balance - in contrast to the regulations by law. The change in equity may indicate that the cost should be 0,6 per cent lower or the income correspondingly higher in 2016 than reported.
Furthermore, some units have not reported at all, in spite of the obligation according to the Act. Thus, some units that should have reported full annual accounts according to the Act may not be included in the data. Imputations are not calculated and implemented to statistically compensate these errors.
Statistics Norway does not hold financial data for political parties with an income below the reporting limit according to the Political Parties Act. Thus, the accounts reported in these statistics are lower than the actual level. Neither governmental subsidies to, nor other income or costs of these parties are included in the statistics if not explicitly mentioned.