Red Electoral Alliance

Red Electoral Alliance (Bokmål: Rød Valgallianse, Nynorsk: Raud Valallianse, RV) was an alliance of far-left groups formed into a Norwegian political party to promote revolutionary socialism ideals into the Norwegian parliament.

While it was formed in 1973 as an election front for the Worker's Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (Norwegian: Arbeidernes Kommunistparti (m-l), AKP(ml)), the Red Electoral Alliance became an independent party in 1991, and after that, it scrapped many Leninist ideas.

Torstein Dahle, an economist at Bergen University College, was elected leader in 2003 and re-elected in March 2005.

It was clear that in order to be represented in parliament, they had to win a large share of votes in Hordaland or Oslo.

*: In 1989 RV participated in an electoral alliance with other groups called County Lists for Environment and Solidarity.