Election-escape: Voters turn their backs on Labour Party and Jens Stoltenberg.
While Labor Party have record-low 26.1, can minor parties in the government smile.
Labor is set to make the second worst election since 1924, when the numbers of TNS Gallup’s February poll for TV2 are election results in September.
Only 26.1 percent of respondents said they would vote for the Labour Party, a decline of 3.7 percentage points compared with a poll in January.
Voters flee after riot
Only six out of ten voters who voted for the Labour Party in 2009, 59 percent, said they would do the same today. Record number of voters fleeing to the Conservatives.
– We take these readings at the utmost seriousness and focus that are optional 9 September, said party secretary Raymond Johansen (Ap) to TV 2
– Is there a crisis atmosphere in Labor?
– No, we focus on that there are choices 9 september, it will require all focus from us, says Johansen.
Background figures show that 16 percent of voters who voted Labour in 2009 would today have been Conservatives. Converted to the number of voters that means 154,000 Labor voters today would vote for arch-rival.
minor parties grows
While voters turn their backs to the largest government party, the two minor parties in the coalition government published.
SV gets 5.2 percent, which is 1.6 percentage points more than they did in January, and Audun Lysbakken best poll since he was elected party leader nearly one year ago.
– We feel that it is better for SV, and that we have good fortune with us, it is too early to breathe a sigh of relief, the situation for the SV is still serious, says Audun Lysbakken (SV).
Still says only half of the party’s voters in 2009 that they would vote for the party, but SV obtains now a number of new voters. For the first time in many years there are just as many former Labor voters who say they will vote for SV, as it is frustrating SV voters who escapes to the main government party.
Also the Center Party gained 0.9 percentage points to 6.0, which is the highest level of support the party has had in a year.
– It’s nice that the polls go up. But we know that they can go up and down. And it’s election day that matters, says party leader Liv Signe Navarsete (Sp) to TV 2
Upturn after trouble
An election today would give Labor 46 seats, 18 fewer than at the general election in 2009. The Center would get 10 seats (- 1) and SV 9 seats (- 2). And, the Red received a mandate in Oslo.
The Labour Party headquarters realize that 65 coalition seats are far from the majority, but rejoices in the progress of the government partners.
– It is good that the Centre Party and the Socialist Party going forward we will take with us, so it’s time to come out with our policy, and show how to take Norway, says Raymond Johansen.
Highs for the small coalition parties comes after a week of much noise and murmur. In particular, the Centre Party’s unclear whether the EEA Agreement created bad climate of cooperation in the coalition government.
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg disliked the Centre Party leadership opened to renegotiate the EEA Agreement. So he pushed the party leadership to retreat in one of the Centre Party’s core issues.
Red gets 2.4 percent (+ 1.3) and would thus hijacked mandate in Oslo. The Greens get 1.0 (+ 0.3), which is not enough to mandate. Other parties and lists get 0.5 (- 0.6).
The measurement is made by TNS Gallup for TV 2 with personal telephone interviews of 955 persons entitled to vote, in the period 28 January – 1 February. 76.8 percent stated party preference. Feilmargionen is + / – 1.2 to 2.4 percentage points, the highest of the major parties.
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