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==History==

==History==

===Early years===

===Early years===

The party was founded in 1884, as the second political party in Norway, representing a opposition against the [[The Liberal Party (Norway)|Liberal Party]], founded earlier the same year. The Conservative Party was a reaction against [[parliamentarian]] and women's suffrage, and universal suffrage in general. The party wanted to maintain the present union with [[Sweden]] (which was later dissolved after a referendum in 1905). Most of the members in the party's early beginning were governmental officers, traders and land owners.

The party was founded in 1884, as the second political party in Norway, representing a opposition against the [[The Liberal Party (Norway)|Liberal Party]], founded earlier the same year. The Conservative Party was a reaction against [[parliamentarian]] and women's suffrage, and universal suffrage in general. The party wanted to maintain the union with [[Sweden]] (which was later dissolved after a referendum in 1905). Most of the members in the party's early beginning were governmental officers, traders and land owners.

The Conservative and Liberal Parties changed on having the governmental power in the early years, from 1884 to 1928, when [[Labour Party (Norway)|the Labour Party]] established its first government, after winning the parliamentary election the same year; the Conservative Party's main enemy wasn't any longer the Liberal Party.

The Conservative and Liberal Parties changed on having the governmental power in the early years, from 1884 to 1928, when [[Labor Party (Norway)|Labor Party]] established its first government, after winning the parliamentary election the same year; the Conservative Party's main enemy wasn't any longer the Liberal Party.

 

Before the [[World War II]], [[C.J. Hambro]] raised as the Conservative Party and Norway's most important parlamentarian. He led the Storting's Committee on Foreign Affairs, and was Parliament Speaker, in most of the 1930's. He warned against extremist ideologies a good while before the World War II came and others realized the same as him.

===In opposition, 1945–1963===

===In opposition, 1945–1963===