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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.
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- 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
2023 Total Per cent Income, total 866 512 051 100.0 Government subsidy, total 539 509 693 62.3 Central government subsidy 455 404 315 52.6 Municipal/county subsidy 72 597 952 8.4 Other government subsidy 11 507 426 1.3 Own business, total 183 638 815 21.2 Membership fee 77 198 046 8.9 Income from lotteries and similar 12 845 880 1.5 Capital income 36 047 420 4.2 Business activity 29 252 843 3.4 Other income from own business 28 294 626 3.3 Contributions, total 143 363 543 16.5 Private contributions 42 010 150 4.8 Contributions from commercial enterprises 31 749 279 3.7 Contributions from employers' and labour organizations 28 977 589 3.3 Contributions from other 40 626 525 4.7 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 Health Party Folkeaksjonen Nei til mer bompenger 2023 Income, total 866 512 051 46 537 386 40 419 484 61 588 367 222 854 857 87 811 676 189 710 156 90 771 453 53 882 211 4 473 821 4 845 053 48 904 070 625 213 2 907 812 : 1 017 474 Government subsidy, total 539 509 693 28 169 544 25 162 696 40 690 571 141 204 582 57 144 923 109 981 264 70 731 506 26 625 497 3 527 662 3 560 898 27 827 082 40 963 1 237 459 : 954 368 Central government subsidy 455 404 315 20 784 793 22 522 998 34 970 039 115 203 478 50 326 302 92 718 136 61 402 633 21 564 555 2 413 482 3 535 530 25 293 204 30 321 1 097 598 : 954 368 Municipal/county subsidy 72 597 952 2 530 240 2 072 855 5 713 655 23 031 467 6 737 797 15 985 273 8 769 800 4 351 156 1 074 477 25 368 2 091 561 10 642 139 861 : 0 Other government subsidy 11 507 426 4 854 511 566 843 6 877 2 969 637 80 824 1 277 855 559 073 709 786 39 703 0 442 317 0 0 : 0 Own business, total 183 638 815 15 388 588 10 019 787 9 119 181 46 222 404 13 142 868 45 597 296 13 125 533 14 264 579 784 282 1 098 548 9 228 423 409 763 752 305 : 63 106 Membership fee 77 198 046 8 011 795 3 390 866 4 576 297 12 634 950 6 276 235 16 921 320 7 065 903 6 922 755 542 822 1 080 316 5 012 181 251 517 615 989 : 63 097 Income from lotteries and similar 12 845 880 1 194 715 1 279 525 133 062 1 373 409 3 635 850 1 414 208 537 491 2 647 152 91 352 10 661 6 088 1 160 108 172 : 0 Capital income 36 047 420 2 121 265 655 156 749 956 15 070 721 1 845 327 13 834 916 1 212 454 412 108 22 269 212 73 510 7 115 79 : 9 Business activity 29 252 843 2 507 890 1 817 624 1 074 903 14 699 099 -9 232 374 157 1 616 059 3 495 080 70 338 0 3 571 055 16 209 0 : 0 Other income from own business 28 294 626 1 552 923 2 876 616 2 584 963 2 444 225 1 394 688 13 052 695 2 693 626 787 484 57 501 7 359 565 589 133 762 28 065 : 0 Contributions, total 143 363 543 2 979 254 5 237 001 11 778 615 35 427 871 17 523 885 34 131 596 6 914 414 12 992 135 161 877 185 607 11 848 565 174 487 918 048 : 0 Private contributions 42 010 150 890 271 1 407 536 5 904 361 4 749 879 198 163 7 684 075 1 026 383 10 644 169 29 877 141 776 7 764 390 126 987 284 329 : 0 Contributions from commercial enterprises 31 749 279 382 677 1 670 116 96 282 732 216 4 739 414 21 769 565 278 300 0 107 000 20 000 296 352 0 609 063 : 0 Contributions from employers' and labour organizations 28 977 589 16 000 0 3 793 191 20 528 553 5 000 1 643 505 2 766 890 194 450 25 000 0 0 0 5 000 : 0 Contributions, from other 40 626 525 1 690 306 2 159 349 1 984 781 9 417 223 12 581 308 3 034 451 2 842 841 2 153 516 0 23 831 3 787 823 47 500 19 656 : 0 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 Health Party Folkeaksjonen Nei til mer bompenger 2023 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 : 100.0 Government subsidy, total 62.3 60.5 62.3 66.1 63.4 65.1 58.0 77.9 49.4 78.9 73.5 56.9 6.6 42.6 : 93.8 Central government subsidy 52.6 44.7 55.7 56.8 51.7 57.3 48.9 67.6 40.0 53.9 73.0 51.7 4.8 37.7 : 93.8 Municipal/county subsidy 8.4 5.4 5.1 9.3 10.3 7.7 8.4 9.7 8.1 24.0 0.5 4.3 1.7 4.8 : 0.0 Other government subsidy 1.3 10.4 1.4 0.0 1.3 0.1 0.7 0.6 1.3 0.9 0.0 0.9 0.0 0.0 : 0.0 Own business, total 21.2 33.1 24.8 14.8 20.7 15.0 24.0 14.5 26.5 17.5 22.7 18.9 65.5 25.9 : 6.2 Membership fee 8.9 17.2 8.4 7.4 5.7 7.1 8.9 7.8 12.8 12.1 22.3 10.2 40.2 21.2 : 6.2 Income from lotteries and similar 1.5 2.6 3.2 0.2 0.6 4.1 0.7 0.6 4.9 2.0 0.2 0.0 0.2 3.7 : 0.0 Capital income 4.2 4.6 1.6 1.2 6.8 2.1 7.3 1.3 0.8 0.5 0.0 0.2 1.1 0.0 : 0.0 Business activity 3.4 5.4 4.5 1.7 6.6 0.0 0.2 1.8 6.5 1.6 0.0 7.3 2.6 0.0 : 0.0 Other income from own business 3.3 3.3 7.1 4.2 1.1 1.6 6.9 3.0 1.5 1.3 0.2 1.2 21.4 1.0 : 0.0 Contributions, total 16.5 6.4 13.0 19.1 15.9 20.0 18.0 7.6 24.1 3.6 3.8 24.2 27.9 31.6 : 0.0 Private contributions 4.8 1.9 3.5 9.6 2.1 0.2 4.1 1.1 19.8 0.7 2.9 15.9 20.3 9.8 : 0.0 Contributions from commercial enterprises 3.7 0.8 4.1 0.2 0.3 5.4 11.5 0.3 0.0 2.4 0.4 0.6 0.0 20.9 : 0.0 Contributions from employers' and labour organizations 3.3 0.0 0.0 6.2 9.2 0.0 0.9 3.0 0.4 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 : 0.0 Contributions from other 4.7 3.6 5.3 3.2 4.3 14.4 1.6 3.2 4.0 0.0 0.5 7.7 7.6 0.7 : 0.0 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
2023 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 Health Party Folkeaksjonen Nei til mer bompenger Income, total 866 512 051 46 537 386 40 419 484 61 588 367 222 854 857 87 811 676 189 710 156 90 771 453 53 882 211 4 473 821 4 845 053 48 904 070 625 213 2 907 812 : 1 017 474 Government subsidy, total 539 509 693 28 169 544 25 162 696 40 690 571 141 204 582 57 144 923 109 981 264 70 731 506 26 625 497 3 527 662 3 560 898 27 827 082 40 963 1 237 459 : 954 368 Own business, total 183 638 815 15 388 588 10 019 787 9 119 181 46 222 404 13 142 868 45 597 296 13 125 533 14 264 579 784 282 1 098 548 9 228 423 409 763 752 305 : 63 106 Contributions, total 143 363 543 2 979 254 5 237 001 11 778 615 35 427 871 17 523 885 34 131 596 6 914 414 12 992 135 161 877 185 607 11 848 565 174 487 918 048 : 0 Total costs 973 299 862 56 342 751 56 380 562 75 019 755 254 919 157 96 397 092 198 560 999 108 544 257 45 851 389 5 094 612 3 716 188 56 809 165 1 112 350 3 162 418 : 2 124 456 Salary costs 342 262 135 20 364 023 19 556 251 29 128 671 91 518 733 17 413 427 74 751 507 38 548 346 19 117 348 226 919 871 145 27 954 359 0 992 344 : 1 009 376 Other operating costs 627 774 737 34 828 232 36 641 236 45 879 791 162 485 431 78 793 637 123 242 777 69 925 174 26 665 567 4 850 404 2 842 222 28 789 102 1 111 880 2 165 995 : 1 106 401 Finance costs 3 262 990 1 150 496 183 075 11 293 914 993 190 028 566 715 70 737 68 474 17 289 2 821 65 704 470 4 079 : 8 679 Result -106 787 811 -9 805 365 -15 961 078 -13 431 388 -32 064 300 -8 585 416 -8 850 843 -17 772 804 8 030 822 -620 791 1 128 865 -7 905 095 -487 137 -254 606 : -1 106 982 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
2023 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 Health 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 : 100.0 Government subsidy, total 62.3 60.5 62.3 66.1 63.4 65.1 58.0 77.9 49.4 78.9 73.5 56.9 6.6 42.6 : 93.8 Own business, total 21.2 33.1 24.8 14.8 20.7 15.0 24.0 14.5 26.5 17.5 22.7 18.9 65.5 25.9 : 6.2 Contributions, total 16.5 6.4 13.0 19.1 15.9 20.0 18.0 7.6 24.1 3.6 3.8 24.2 27.9 31.6 : 0.0 Total costs 112.3 121.1 139.5 121.8 114.4 109.8 104.7 119.6 85.1 113.9 76.7 116.2 177.9 108.8 : 208.8 Salary costs 39.5 43.8 48.4 47.3 41.1 19.8 39.4 42.5 35.5 5.1 18.0 57.2 0.0 34.1 : 99.2 Other operating costs 72.4 74.8 90.7 74.5 72.9 89.7 65.0 77.0 49.5 108.4 58.7 58.9 177.8 74.5 : 108.7 Finance costs 0.4 2.5 0.5 0.0 0.4 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 : 0.9 Result -12.3 -21.1 -39.5 -21.8 -14.4 -9.8 -4.7 -19.6 14.9 -13.9 23.3 -16.2 -77.9 -8.8 : -108.8 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
2023 Total cost by activity Administration costs General political party activity¿s costs Election campaign¿s costs Total 973 204 752 372 445 363 310 960 314 289 799 075 Christian Democratic Party 56 342 751 28 774 693 15 613 038 11 955 020 Liberal Party 56 380 562 24 009 523 11 560 207 20 810 832 Socialist Left Party 75 019 755 34 845 400 17 150 420 23 023 935 Labour Party 254 700 498 85 732 762 100 118 382 68 849 354 Progress Party 96 397 092 20 193 959 29 089 632 47 113 501 Conservative Party 198 691 437 101 692 427 42 606 456 54 392 554 Centre Party 108 544 257 25 589 192 63 768 296 19 186 769 Red Party 45 850 499 25 457 831 11 338 508 9 054 160 The Pensioners' Party 5 094 612 1 403 894 1 790 364 1 900 354 Democratic Party of Norway 3 710 189 2 665 105 224 753 820 331 Green Party 56 809 165 15 672 607 14 325 899 26 810 659 Communist Party of Norway 1 112 350 486 717 592 730 32 903 The Christians 3 162 418 1 749 142 318 442 1 094 834 The Health Party : : : : Folkeaksjonen Nei til mer bompenger 2 124 456 1 438 349 226 307 459 800 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
2023 Total Of which youth's poltical organisations Total 455 586 343 29 020 314 Christian Democratic Party 20 799 602 1 129 751 Liberal Party 22 522 998 1 017 004 Socialist Left Party 34 970 039 1 804 561 Labour Party 115 203 478 8 070 345 Progress Party 50 326 302 2 798 095 Conservative Party 92 728 434 6 693 873 Centre Party 61 559 554 4 133 310 Red Party 21 564 555 1 214 967 Democratic Party of Norway 3 535 530 . Coastal Party - - The Pensioners' Party 2 413 482 . Green Party 25 293 204 2 134 267 Communist Party of Norway 30 321 - The Pirate Party of Norway 186 490 - The Christians 1 097 598 - The Health Party 525 688 - Folkeaksjonen Nei til mer bompenger 954 368 . 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.