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Red Electoral Alliance

Field	Value
country	Norway
name	Red Electoral Alliance
native_name	Rød Valgallianse
logo	Rv-logo.jpg
logo_size	150px
leader	Torstein Dahle
foundation	1973
dissolved	2007
ideology	{{ubl	class=nowrap
membership	1,400 (2002)
european	The European Alliance of EU-critical Movements (observer)
position	Left-wing to far-left
youth_wing	Rød Ungdom
successor	Red Party
colours	Red
colorcode	#FF0000
headquarters	Osterhausgate 27
Oslo
website	Official Website

|Revolutionary socialism |Marxism |Democratic socialism (from 1991) Oslo Red Electoral Alliance (, , RV) was an alliance of far-left groups formed into a Norwegian political party to promote revolutionary socialism ideals into the Norwegian parliament. The party dissolved itself on 10 March 2007, when it participated in the founding of a new party, Red (Rødt).

Raud Ungdom or Rød Ungdom (Red Youth) was their youth organization.

History

While it was formed in 1973 as an election front for the Worker's Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (), the Red Electoral Alliance became an independent party in 1991, and after that, it scrapped many Leninist ideas. It remained a revolutionary party that, promoting an ideology based upon Marxism.

From 1993 to 1997, Erling Folkvord represented RV in Stortinget, the Norwegian parliament. In 1997, the party got their highest recorded percentage of votes, with 1.7%. In spite of this, Folkvord lost his seat and no new seats were won.

Torstein Dahle, an economist at Bergen University College, was elected leader in 2003 and re-elected in March 2005. Following the 2005 election it was clear that their work to regain their place in the parliament had failed. They received 1.2% of the national total of votes. It was clear that in order to be represented in parliament, they had to win a large share of votes in Hordaland or Oslo. However their best result was 3.4% in Hordaland.

On 10 March 2007, the party dissolved itself, as it merged with the AKP into a new party, Red, with Dahle as its leader. Due to Norwegian election laws, the name Red Electoral Alliance was kept for the 2007 local elections. The party currently has 57 representatives in town halls nationwide.

Party leaders

1973–1975 — Sigurd Allern1
1975–1979 — Pål Steigan1
1979–1981 — Hilde Haugsgjerd
1981–1983 — Finn Sjue
1983–1987 — Jahn Arne Olsen
1987–1995 — Aksel Nærstad
1995–1997 — Jørn Magdahl
1997–2003 — Aslak Sira Myhre
2003–2007 — Torstein Dahle

1 Until 1979, the leader of AKP was also the leader of RV.

Parliamentary election results

Election year	# of
overall votes	% of
overall vote	# of
overall seats won	+/–	1973	1977	1981	1985	1989	1993	1997	2001	2005
9,360	0.43
14,515	0.63		0
17,844	0.72		0
14,818	0.57		0
*22,139	*0.83		0
26,360	1.07		1
43,252	1.67		1
30,015	1.18		0
32,355	1.23		0

*: In 1989 RV participated in an electoral alliance with other groups called County Lists for Environment and Solidarity.

References

[http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/data/filer/parti/H1255.html Basic Principles of the Red Electoral Alliance] (Norwegian)
Løkeland-Stai, Espen. (10 October 2002). "Frp firedoblet medlemstallet". Klassekampen.

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