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The Social Democratic Labor Party (Ap) in Norway may have fallen below the symbolically important 20 percent level, according to an opinion poll from Norfakta. The loss is 3 percentage points.
The party gets 19.2 percent, but since the margin of error is 3.1 percent, it is unclear whether the party really has the support of less than one in five Norwegian voters.
If there had been an election today, according to the survey, the Labor Party and the government partner the Center Party together would have only received 48 seats in the Storting, compared to today’s 76.
The four bourgeois opposition parties Venstre, KrF, Frp and Høyre together get 86 mandates and a slim majority in the 169-member parliament.
It is the second time this week that the Labor Party has fallen below 20 percent. In NRK and Aftenposten’s survey, the party received 19.6 percent.
The Norfakta survey has been carried out on behalf of Klassekampen and Nationen. 1,006 people were asked on 6 and 7 September.