The Radical People's Party (Norwegian: Det radikale folkeparti), founded as the Labour Democrats (Norwegian: Arbeiderdemokratene), was a radical political party in Norway mainly active from 1906 to 1936, targeting workers and smallholders.
[2] He was succeeded in this position by Alf Mjøen, who also represented the party as a member of the Storting.
The party was a successor to the United Norwegian Workers' Association (Norwegian: De forenede norske Arbeidersamfund, DFNA), a labour organisation associated with the Liberal Party, which due to conflicts with the mother party fielded Johan Castberg as a parliamentary candidate in the 1900 election.
[3][4] Castberg in turn founded a new party, the Labour Democrats in 1906.
[2] The party had its strongest support among small-scale farmers and landless agricultural labourers, based in a non-socialist ideology.