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| Centre-right wins Norway election | Centre-right wins Norway election |
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| Norway's Labour Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has admitted defeat in Monday's general election. | Norway's Labour Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has admitted defeat in Monday's general election. |
| The Conservatives and their allies have won a majority of the seats in parliament, according to official projections with most votes counted. | The Conservatives and their allies have won a majority of the seats in parliament, according to official projections with most votes counted. |
| Erna Solberg, who heads the Conservative Party, is widely expected to form a government with the anti-immigration Progress Party. | Erna Solberg, who heads the Conservative Party, is widely expected to form a government with the anti-immigration Progress Party. |
| Mr Stoltenberg said he would step down after presenting the budget next month. | Mr Stoltenberg said he would step down after presenting the budget next month. |
| The Labour leader, prime minister since 2005, congratulated Ms Solberg. | |
| He said his party tried "to do what almost no one has done, to win three elections in a row, but it turned out to be tough," AP reports. | |
| The Conservative leader told supporters in Oslo that the outcome was "a historic election victory for the right-wing parties," according to AFP. | |
| The vote was Norway's first general election since attacks by a far-right extremist killed 77 people at a Labour Party youth camp in 2011. | |
| The perpetrator of those attacks, Anders Behring Breivik, had previously been a member of the Progress Party. | The perpetrator of those attacks, Anders Behring Breivik, had previously been a member of the Progress Party. |