''Vestlands-Posten'' (or ''Vestlandsposten'') was a

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published in

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from 1878 to 1916. ''Vestlands-Posten'' was founded by

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, a leading politician in the

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and later the

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, who was also a pastor and later a leader in a lay preaching movement. Hartvig Halvorsen was the newspaper's founding editor. Publishing three issues per week, ''Vestlands-Posten'' expanded rapidly and in the 1880s was the Norwegian newspaper with the largest readership outside

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(Christiania), the capital. ''Vestlands-Posten'' became the influential organ for Agrarian Liberals (''Bonde-Venstre'') and Liberal Party politics, later the Moderate Liberal Party.

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