Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet

Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet
Cabinet of Norway
Date formed	17 October 2005
Date dissolved	16 October 2013
People and organisations
Head of state	Harald V of Norway
Head of government	Jens Stoltenberg
Member party	Labour Party Socialist Left Party Centre Party
Status in legislature	Red–Green Coalition
History
Election(s)	2005, 2009
Legislature term(s)	2005–2009 2009–2013
Incoming formation	2005 parliamentary election
Outgoing formation	2013 parliamentary election
Predecessor	Bondevik's Second Cabinet
Successor	Solberg's Cabinet

Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet was the Government of Norway from 17 October 2005 to 16 October 2013. It was a coalition between the Labour Party, the Socialist Left Party and the Centre Party, known as the Red–Green Coalition. On 9 September 2013, the coalition was defeated in the 2013 election.

The cabinet had ten members from the Labour Party, five from the Socialist Left Party and four from the Centre Party. It replaced Bondevik's Second Cabinet following the 2005 parliamentary election where the three parties won a majority in parliament. In the 2009 parliamentary election, the three parties retained their majority, and the coalition continued.

The cabinet is the first time the Socialist Left Party has sat in government, and the second time, after the post-war interim Gerhardsen's First Cabinet, where the Labour Party sits in a coalition government. It was the first cabinet to have had a majority of women, the first to have had a member with a non-Western heritage and the first to have had a member who was a Muslim.