Norway’s Labor Prime Minister Store Declares Election Victory

Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store declared victory in a close election where his Labor Party played to voters’ fears of uncertainty regarding taxation and welfare policies.

Store is headed for another four years in office after Labor emerged as the Nordic country’s biggest, while the opposition bloc saw a shift to the right.

The prime minister’s party won the general election with about 28% of the votes. Together with the center-left parties supporting it, the Labor-led bloc was on track for 88 seats — just over half — in the 169-member legislature, as 99% of votes were counted. He ...