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. Common for all the parties, was that all of them were made up of people who had been excluded or voluntarily left the Progress Party after the turmoil that erupted in the party around 2000/2001. The most noticeable of them were Member of Parliament

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, who was the top candidate of the Southern Norway List in

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, as well as being present on the lists of the Hedmark List and the Hordaland List. Kleppe was noticeably also joined by

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Kjell Elvis, and

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in Vest-Agder. Other Progress Party MPs on the county lists were Dag Danielsen and

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, the first and second candidates for the Oslo List, and Jørn Stang who was the top candidate of the Østfold List. The lists did not campaign as a common party, and even though they had much in common they were formally separate entities. The most successful of the lists was the Southern Norway List of Vidar Kleppe, but neither he managed to secure a renewed place in the

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. Results for the lists in their respective counties: Together, the lists received 4.026 votes, accounting for 0,16% of the votes nationwide. In 2002, the party the Democrats were founded with Vidar Kleppe as the chairman. Many of the members of the county lists joined the new party, though not all. The top candidate for the Troms List, Karl-Olav Slorafoss, was for instance later active in the Coastal Party.

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{{reflist, 2 Defunct political parties in Norway Political parties established in 2001