Coastal Party
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Coastal Party
Kystpartiet |
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| Leader | Bengt Stabrun Johansen |
| Founded | 1 February 1999 |
| Split from | Non-Partisan Deputies |
| Headquarters | Grensen 8B 0159 Oslo |
| Youth wing | Kystpartiets Ungdom |
| Ideology |
Regionalism Agrarianism Euroscepticism National Conservatism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| Colours | Green |
| Parliament |
0 / 169
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| County Councils |
1 / 728
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| Municipal Councils |
11 / 10,781
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| Website | |
| www.kystpartiet.no | |
The Coastal Party (Norwegian: Kystpartiet) is a regionalist and agrarianpolitical party in Norway. The party has district, fishing and coastal issues among its primary policies with its main political base in Northern Norway, and is a staunch opponent of Norwegian membership in the European Union. It was represented in the Norwegian Parliament from 2001 to 2005, and its predecessor, the Non-Partisan Deputies, from 1997 to 2001. Originally led by the fisherman and whale hunter Steinar Bastesen, its current leader is Bengt Stabrun Johansen (since 2012).
The Coastal Party was formally founded on 1 February 1999 although the party participated, and won one seat, in the 1997 parliamentary election as the Non-Partisan Deputies. Since 1997 however, the name "Coastal Party" was commonly used to describe the parliamentary party, at least in its base in Northern Norway. In the county of Nordland, the list which ran in 1997 even went as "program for the Non-Partisan Deputies-Coastal Party". In February 2001, Conservative Party Member of Parliament Inger Stolt-Nielsen from Rogaland left the Conservatives and finished her term for the Coastal Party, giving the party two Members in Parliament until the 2001 election. The party's charismatic leader Steinar Bastesen, a fisherman and whale hunter, was elected to the parliament for a second period in 2001.
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