29. What are the eligibility criteria for political parties to receive public funding?

Article 10 (2) The vote support is paid as an equal amount in kroner (NOK) to each vote received at the last general election. The basic support is paid as an equal amount in kroner to parties that at the last general election received at least 2.5% of the votes on a national basis or that had at least one representative elected to the Storting. Of the total support, 9/10 is distributed as vote support and 1/10 as basic support.

Political Parties Act (2005), last amended in 2013. 

At the national level, 10 per cent of envisaged funding constitutes “basic support” paid equally to all parties that received at least 2.5 per cent of votes in the last parliamentary elections, or won at least one seat in parliament. The remaining 90 per cent of funding is given for each vote received by a party in the last parliamentary elections.

OSCE/ODIHR (2017), Norway, Parliamentary Elections, 11 September 2017 OSCE/ODIHR Election Expert Team Final Report. OSCE/ODIHR, Warsaw

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