Socialist People's Party (Norway)

The Socialist People's Party (Template:Langx) was a splinter group of the Norwegian Labour Party (DNA) founded in 1961. SF was principally dissatisfied with the pro-NATO/European Economic Community external policies of DNA. A group centered on the magazine had been expelled from DNA. The party merged into the Socialist Left Party in 1976.

History

In the mid-1960s, the youth organization of SF, Socialist Youth League (), started moving towards revolutionary Marxism, leading to a split in 1969. The SUF broke away, renamed itself SUF(m-l) and launched the Workers' Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) (which merged with the Red Electoral Alliance in 2007 to launch the new Red Party).

Following the split, Socialist People's Youth () became the new SF youth wing. SF lost parliamentary representation in 1969; however, in 1972 a DNA MP, Arne Kielland, joined SF.

SF was the driving force behind the formation of Socialist Electoral League, which later emerged into Socialist Left Party. SV can be seen as the direct successor of the SF.

SF party leaders

• 1961-1969 : Knut Løfsnes
• 1969-1971 : Torolv Solheim
• 1971-1973 : Finn Gustavsen
• 1973-1975 : Stein Ørnhøi

Electoral results

Parliamentary elections

Storting

Date	Votes			Seats		Position	Size
	No.	%	± pp	No.	±
1961	43,996	2.4	New	Template:Composition bar	New	Template:Maybe (1961–1963)	8th
						Opposition (1963)
						Template:Maybe (from 1963)
1965	122,721	6.0	Increase 3.5	Template:Composition bar	Steady 2	Opposition	Increase 6th
1969	73,284	3.4	Decrease 2.6	Template:Composition bar	Decrease 2	Template:Extra-parliamentary	Decrease 6th
1973				Template:Composition bar	Increase 13	Template:Maybe	Increase 5th

Local

Year	Vote %	Type
1963	2.8	Municipal
1967	5.1	Municipal
1971	4.0	Municipal