 | This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Prime Minister of Norway" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(January 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
| Prime Minister of Norway | |
|---|---|
| Norges statsminister (Bokmål) Noregs statsminister (Nynorsk) | |
 | |
 | |
 | |
| Executive branch of the Norwegian Government Office of the Prime Minister | |
| Member of | Council of State |
| Reports to | TheStorting |
| Residence | Statsministerboligen |
| Seat | Regjeringskvartalet,Oslo |
| Nominator | The previous prime minister |
| Appointer | Monarch of Norway on the advice of the previous prime minister or the president of the Storting |
| Term length | No fixed term Serves as long as the incumbent does not have the majority of the Storting against them. |
| Constituting instrument | Constitution of Norway |
| Inaugural holder | Peder Anker |
| Formation | 17 May 1814 |
| Deputy | Deputy Prime Minister |
| Salary | annual: 1,735,682NOK/US$ 168,023 |
| Website | Prime Minister's Office |
Theprime minister of Norway (Norwegian:statsminister, which directly translates to "minister of state") is thehead of government andchief executive ofNorway. The prime minister andCabinet (consisting of all the most senior government department heads) are collectivelyaccountable for their policies and actions to themonarch, to theStorting (Parliament of Norway), to theirpolitical party, and ultimately the electorate. In practice, since it is nearly impossible for a government to stay in office against the will of the Storting, the prime minister is primarily answerable to the Storting. The prime minister is almost always the leader of the majority party in the Storting, or the leader of the senior partner in the governing coalition.
Norway has aconstitution, which was adopted on 17 May 1814.[1] The position of prime minister is the result of legislation. Modern prime ministers have few statutory powers, but provided they can command the support of their parliamentary party. Prime ministers control both the legislature and the executive (the cabinet) and hence wield considerablede facto powers. As of 2021[update] the prime minister of Norway isJonas Gahr Støre, of theLabour Party, replacingErna Solberg ofConservative Party, who resigned in October 2021.
Unlike their counterparts in the rest of Europe, Norwegian prime ministers do not have the option of advising the king to dissolve the Storting and call asnap election. The constitution requires that the Storting serve out its full four-year term. If the prime minister loses the Storting's confidence, they must resign.
| First ministers, 1814–1873 | | |
|---|---|---|
| Prime ministers, 1873–1905 | ||
| Prime ministers, 1905–1940 | ||
| WWII, 1940–1945 |
| |
| Prime ministers, 1945– | ||