Stop the Immigration ( no, Stopp Innvandringen, SI) was a political party in

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

, founded by

Jack Erik Kjuus Jack Erik Kjuus (18 January 1927 – 12 January 2009) was a Norwegian far-right politician of the former White Electoral Alliance who was convicted of racism in 1997. The party Kjuus led was a merger between two anti-immigrant parties, Stop the Im ...

in 1987. The party was never particularly successful, and its only elected representative was in the

Drammen Drammen () is a city and municipality in Viken (county), Viken, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the south-eastern and most populated part of Norway. Drammen municipality also includes smaller towns and village ...

city council, in both 1991 and 1995. The party was succeeded by the

White Electoral Alliance White Electoral Alliance (Bokmål: ''Hvit Valgallianse'', Nynorsk: ''Kvit Valallianse'') was a short-lived political party in Norway, founded by Jack Erik Kjuus in September 1995 after the merging of Stop Immigration (''Stopp Innvandringen'') and ...

in 1995.

History

Stop the Immigration was founded on 15 September 1987 by

. The party was formally registered on 27 April 1988, after having collected the required 3,000 signatures. The first election it contested was the 1989 parliamentary election, where the party received 0.3% of the votes, and thus no parliamentary representation. Its first candidates included

Erik Gjems-Onstad Erik-Ørn Gjems-Onstad, MBE (22 February 1922 – 18 November 2011) was a Norwegian resistance member, officer, lawyer, sports official, politician, author and anti-immigration activist. Gjems-Onstad joined the Norwegian resistance movement a ...

Akershus Akershus () is a traditional region and current electoral district in Norway, with Oslo as its main city and traditional capital. It is named after the Akershus Fortress in Oslo. From the middle ages to 1919, Akershus was a fief and main county ...

and Harald Trefall in

Hordaland Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Municipal ...

. In the 1989 school elections, the party received 1.4% of the votes nationwide, and 2.5% in

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. In the 1991 local elections, the party received enough votes to get elected into the

city council, where Frank Hove took the seat. In the 1993 parliamentary election, the party won 0.1% of the vote nationwide. In the 1993 school elections, the party received 4.1% of the vote in Oslo. Hove was re-elected in the 1995 local elections with 2.3% of the votes in Drammen, but in 1995 Kjuus chose to merge the party with a marginal second group, ''Send de fremmedkulturelle hjem, eller så mister vi landet vårt'', to form the

Political platform

The party had one issue on its party program; to encourage immigrants and refugees to return to their native country, and if necessary send them out by force. The party used the slogan "Norway for Norwegians" before the 1989 election. In its manifesto for the 1995 election, it planned to relinquish the

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, not let any refugees or asylum seekers into the country, and use the funds allocated for foreign

aid In international relations, aid (also known as international aid, overseas aid, foreign aid, economic aid or foreign assistance) is – from the perspective of governments – a voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another. Ai ...

to send foreigners back home.

Election results

Parliamentary elections

Local elections

References

{{Authority control Defunct political parties in Norway Political parties established in 1987 1987 establishments in Norway Political parties disestablished in 1995 Far-right political parties in Norway