Catharina Moh asks how much change Norway's voters want
Norwegians are voting in an election
that is expected to result in defeat for Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.
Mr Stoltenberg's centre-left coalition, in office since 2005, has been trailing an opposition alliance led by Erna Solberg's Conservative Party.
Ms Solberg may depend on the support of the anti-immigration Progress Party to form a government.
The election is Norway's first since attacks by far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik left 77 people dead.
Dozens of Labour Party youth activists, who survived Breivik's shooting spree on the island of Utoeya in 2011, are running for parliament.
But the wave of sympathy for Labour in the wake of the attacks seems to have evaporated, and analysts say the Norwegian people now appear ready for a change of government after eight years.
Extreme rhetoric
The Progress Party has tried to shake off its association with Breivik, who was once a member but left several years before planning and carrying out his attacks.
The party has had to moderate its rhetoric about the Islamification of Norway, because it resembled too closely Breivik's views, says Johannes Berg from the Institute of Social Research in Oslo.
"The most extreme statements that they've made in the past they can't repeat now," he says.
The party, led by Siv Jensen, has been running third in opinion polls.
But the Conservatives' Ms Solberg wants to continue Norway's existing immigration policies and, if they are to form a coalition government, will have to negotiate with Ms Jensen for her to abandon several manifesto promises, says the BBC's Lars Bevanger in Oslo.
source: BBC
Mr Stoltenberg's centre-left coalition, in office since 2005, has been trailing an opposition alliance led by Erna Solberg's Conservative Party.
Ms Solberg may depend on the support of the anti-immigration Progress Party to form a government.
The election is Norway's first since attacks by far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik left 77 people dead.
Dozens of Labour Party youth activists, who survived Breivik's shooting spree on the island of Utoeya in 2011, are running for parliament.
But the wave of sympathy for Labour in the wake of the attacks seems to have evaporated, and analysts say the Norwegian people now appear ready for a change of government after eight years.
Extreme rhetoric
The Progress Party has tried to shake off its association with Breivik, who was once a member but left several years before planning and carrying out his attacks.
The party has had to moderate its rhetoric about the Islamification of Norway, because it resembled too closely Breivik's views, says Johannes Berg from the Institute of Social Research in Oslo.
"The most extreme statements that they've made in the past they can't repeat now," he says.
The party, led by Siv Jensen, has been running third in opinion polls.
But the Conservatives' Ms Solberg wants to continue Norway's existing immigration policies and, if they are to form a coalition government, will have to negotiate with Ms Jensen for her to abandon several manifesto promises, says the BBC's Lars Bevanger in Oslo.
source: BBC
