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The Norwegian Election Research Programme was launched in the middle of the 1950's, under the direction of The Institute for Social Research. Henry Valen and Stein Rokkan were responsible for the programme. The programme co-operated with Norsk Gallup Institute A/S for sample survey data collection in the election studies covering the Storting elections in 1957, 1965, 1969 and 1973. In these first studies interviews were carried out both before and after the elections. Since 1977 the programme has co-operated with Statistics Norway (SSB) for the data collection for these studies. After 1977 interviewing has only been conducted after the elections. The election studies are intended to give statistical data for research purposes on elections and political processes in Norway. Since the start of the Norwegian Election Programme Professor Henry Valen has been the key administrator, but in 1985 Professor Bernt Aardal took over as executive manager.