Editing Politics of Norway (section)

=== Governments 1935–1981 ===

The [[Norwegian Labour Party|Labour Party]] has been the largest party in [[Storting|Parliament]] ever since the [[1927 Norwegian parliamentary election|election of 1927]] up to the recent [[2017 Norwegian parliamentary election|2017 election]]. Labour formed their first brief [[minority government]] in 1928 which lasted for 18 days only. After the [[1936 Norwegian parliamentary election|1936 election]] the Labour Party formed a new minority government, which had to go into exile 1940–1945 because of the [[German occupation of Norway]]. After a brief trans-party government following the German capitulation in 1945, Labour gained a majority of the seats in [[Storting|parliament]] in the first post-war [[1945 Norwegian parliamentary election|election of 1945]].

Norway was ruled by Labour governments from 1945 to 1981, except for three periods (1963, 1965–1971, and 1972–1973). The Labour Party had a single party majority in the Storting from 1945 to 1961. Since then no party has single-handedly formed a [[majority government]], hence [[minority government|minority]] and [[coalition government]]s have been the rule. After the centre-right [[Kåre Willoch|Willoch]] government lost its parliamentary majority in the [[1985 Norwegian parliamentary election|election of 1985]], there were no majority governments in Norway until the second [[Jens Stoltenberg|Stoltenberg]] government was formed after the [[2005 Norwegian parliamentary election|2005 election]].