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NOK 50 million donated during election campaign
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2015-10-22T10:00:00.000Z
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Political parties received NOK 50 million in election campaign contributions. The Labour Party and the Conservatives received 80 per cent of the total contributions.

Election campaign contribution, 2015

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NOK 50 million donated during election campaign

Political parties received NOK 50 million in election campaign contributions, of which NOK 20 million was earmarked grants for reconstruction of the Labour Party’s youth organisation camp at Utøya. Actual election campaign contributions thus totalled NOK 30 million.

Election campaign contributions, by party. NOKPublished 22 October 2015
 Total contributions
1Of this NOK 20 042 929 earmarked for reconstruction of the Labour Party youths' organization camp of «Utøya».
All parties50 027 355
Labour Party128 572 534
Progress Party2 435 250
Conservative Party11 195 928
Christian Democratic Party34 000
The Greens897 625
Red341 309
Center Party2 317 364
Socialist Left Party2 833 907
Liberal Party1 399 438

Source: Statistics Norway.

Of the total NOK 50 million, NOK 29 million was donated by labour organisations, NOK 11 million by commercial enterprises, NOK 5.5 million by private persons and NOK 4 million by other donors. During the parliamentary election campaign of 2013, NOK 40 million in contributions was reported. Since 2005, the first income reporting year, contributions have always been higher in parliamentary election years than in the preceding municipal election years two years earlier.

The bigger, the more

The Labour Party and the Conservatives received 80 per cent of the total contributions. Excluding the Utøya donations, the two parties received two thirds of the election campaign donations, i.e. NOK 19.7 million. The other parties received NOK 10.3 million during the campaign period from 1 January to the election.

The Labour Party received the highest election campaign contributions, with NOK 28.6 million, but with the Utøya donations, the amount diminished to NOK 8.5 million. From this point of view the Conservatives received the highest amount, with NOK 11.2 million, of which NOK 8.6 million was donated by commercial enterprises and some NOK 2 million by private donors. The labour organisations transferred a total of NOK 24.5 million to the Labour Party, which did not get any donations from trade or industry.

The labour organisations and the previous collaborations parties

In addition to the Labour Party, the Socialist Left Party and the Centre Party also received nearly all of their contributions from the labour organisations. These donors contributed with more than 80 per cent of the amounts received by those three parties, with the Centre Party receiving all of its donations from the labour organisations. The labour organisations donated more than 50 per cent of all contributions.

Private donors

Private donors contributed NOK 5.5 million, of which NOK 3.3 million was to the Conservatives and Progress Party. Private donors financed more than 50 per cent of all contributions received by the Progress Party, which received the remainder of its contributions from commercial enterprises. The Greens too received their donations mainly from private donors, with almost NOK 440 000, however mainly as bridging loans. The Labour Party and the Socialist Left each received half a million NOK from private donors.

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According to the Political Party Act, any contributions received in election years from 1 January to the Friday before election day are to be reported if they individually or collectively total more than NOK 10 000 per donor.