Radical People's Party (Norway)

The party was a successor to the United Norwegian Workers' Association (Norwegian: De forenede norske Arbeidersamfund, DFNA), a labour organisation associated with the Liberal Party, which due to conflicts with the mother party fielded Johan Castberg as a parliamentary candidate in the 1900 election.[2][3] Castberg in turn founded a new party, the Labour Democrats in 1906.[1][2] The party took part in its first election in 1906, and in 1912 and 1915 it won six parliamentary representatives.[1]

For most of its history, the party cooperated with the Liberal Party.[1] The party had its strongest support among small-scale farmers and landless agricultural labourers, based in a non-socialist ideology.[2] In 1921 the party changed its name to the Radical People's Party[1] (although its members continued to be referred to as "Labour Democrats").[2]

The party eventually went into a steady decline.[1] Only in Oppland did the party retain some influence.[1][2] In the 1918 election, the party was reduced to one representative. At the election in 1936, it fell out of parliament altogether.[1] After the Second World War the party had effectively merged into the Liberal Party, although formally the parties had joint lists in Oppland until 1957.[2] The party was formally dissolved in 1965.[2]