we are giving below the total number of votes | recorded for each party: 1930 1933 Labour ... 374.702 | 500.355 Conservative and "Liberal People's Party = . 327.559 | 252.422 Liberal and Radical People’s Party 241.176 | 213.055 Agrarian , 190.119 | 173,560 Nasjonal Samling (National Unity) . —_— 27.847 Communist . . . 20.350 22.762 Liberal People’s Party. toe eee 30.989 20.174 Samfundsparti (Social Party) . — 18.768 Hordaland Religious People’s Party") =< 10.280 Radical People’s Party*) .. . 9.226 6.858 *) Both these parties are classed sales with the Liberals. The cause of the great progress made by the Labour Party at the 1933 election must primarily be sought in the question of unemployment and the problem of the economic crisis, which this party has bound itself to solve. 51