Centre (Norwegian: Centrum) was a political party in Norway founded in 1893 and led by Frits Hansen.
Centre was founded by eastern moderates who had been politically homeless since the 1888 Liberal split, and it was often characterised as the Eastern Norway parallel to the Moderate Liberal Party (based in the south-west).
While informally known as the "Moderate Party of Eastern Norway", it remained an independent party-organisation despite talks of a possible merger.
Their common goal was to work against the Liberals' policy of challenging the union with Sweden, expanding voting rights, and taxes.
[5] The party was otherwise ideologically closely connected to the conservative Christian section of the folk high school movement.