Norway's ruling Labour lead jumps in pre-vote poll

OSLO, July 24 (Reuters) - Norway's ruling Labour Party
jumped 5.7 percentage points to 35.1 percent in an opinion poll
ahead of September elections, a monthly survey by Norstat
polling agency for daily newspaper Vaart Land showed.

That reversed a large drop in June's poll from May.

The opposition Conservatives were the only other gainers in
the poll, with a rise to 15.1 from 13.4 percent.

The biggest opposition group, the right-wing Progress Party,
fell 2.5 percentage points in the poll to 26.1 percent.

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will fight challengers from
the Progress Party and other right-of-centre groups to renew his
three-party coalition's majority in the Sept. 14 election.

If the poll was converted into an election result, the
governing coalition of Labour, the Socialist Left (SV) and the
Centre Party (Sp) would gain 82 seats in parliament against a
total of 87 seats for the opposition parties.

Following is a table of opinion poll results:
DATE INSTITUTE Ap SV Sp V KrF H Frp RV OTHER
24/07 Norstat 35.1 6.0 4.7 4.9 5.6 15.1 26.1 1.2 1.3
26/06 Norstat 29.4 8.3 6.3 5.9 5.7 13.4 28.6 1.3 n/a
22/05 VårtLand 35.4 7.3 4.7 4.1 6.6 14.0 36.0 1.2 0.8
15/05 Sentio 31.5 6.3 4.0 5.8 5.8 13.2 30.3 1.5 1.5
15/05 Respons 35.8 5.8 4.7 5.9 5.3 15.2 24.0 1.1 2.1
07/05 Norstat 34.1 6.7 5.8 5.9 6.5 11.9 27.7 0.2 1.2
24/04 Respons 33.3 6.4 5.6 5.9 5.1 15.6 26.0 1.7 1.0
17/04 Sentio 29.7 9.0 5.3 5.0 5.7 13.9 28.4 1.3 1.7
17/04 InFact 29.1 7.2 5.1 5.2 6.0 17.6 25.8 1.6 2.4
24/03 Synovate 36.2 9.9 5.5 5.0 4.7 11.5 23.7 0.9 2.6
19/03 Sentio 32.9 6.1 5.7 4.5 6.5 14.7 26.9 1.6 1.1
18/03 Opinion 30.9 6.4 6.8 6.1 5.6 13.2 30.9 n/a n/a
11/03 Norstat 31.3 6.6 5.0 5.3 5.7 14.1 30.1 0.8 1.1
09/03 Norfakta 31.0 6.9 4.6 4.7 6.9 14.7 28.0 1.9 1.9
02/03 TNSGallup 35.5 7.0 5.1 4.5 5.2 15.6 24.7 0.8 1.6
27/02 Norstat 33.0 7.1 4.3 5.9 5.2 12.6 29.4 1.5 1.0
19/02 Sentio 32.6 7.9 3.5 6.4 7.4 14.0 25.8 1.5 0.9
12/02 Norstat 35.4 6.8 5.5 6.6 5.2 15.8 21.6 1.3 1.7
21/01 Opinion 28.7 8.1 6.0 5.1 5.6 15.2 28.6 1.3 1.3
16/01 Respons 35.2 7.3 4.5 4.7 5.9 17.7 21.7 1.7 1.3
15/01 Sentio 32.7 9.0 5.5 4.3 6.3 15.2 24.6 0.8 1.6
2008:
15/12 Sentio 29.9 8.5 5.9 5.8 6.2 16.8 24.0 1.4 1.6
12/12 Respons 32.5 7.2 5.9 6.1 6.7 18.2 21.5 0.9 1.0
27/11 Opinion 27.2 7.5 7.3 6.7 6.3 17.0 24.3 2.2 1.4
21/11 Norstat 30.4 8.4 5.0 4.9 6.9 16.4 25.4 n/a n/a
14/11 Respons 30.8 7.5 6.2 5.7 7.1 16.6 23.0 2.0 1.0
19/10 Respons 31.5 7.4 4.2 7.7 6.2 16.0 25.1 1.7 0.2
13/10 InFact 31.0 5.5 5.3 4.7 5.8 19.5 24.9 1.1 2.2
08/10 TNSGallup 29.2 7.1 4.7 5.4 6.1 16.3 27.7 2.2 1.2
19/09 Respons 27.9 6.1 5.6 5.9 5.8 14.6 31.7 1.7 0.7
2005 election: 32.7 8.8 6.5 5.9 6.8 14.1 22.1 1.2 1.9
NOTES: Parties need at least 4 percent of the vote to gain
representation in Norway's parliament, the Storting.
Ap = Labour Party, leading party in centre-left coalition
SV = Socialist Left Party, junior coalition partner
Sp = Centre Party, junior coalition partner

V = Liberals, centrist opposition party
KrF = Christian People's Party, centrist opposition group

H = Conservatives, second biggest opposition party
Frp = Progress Party, biggest opposition group
RV = Red Electoral Alliance, radical left
(Reporting by Aasa Christine Stoltz; Editing by Louise Ireland)