After having what many described as a bad election in 2001, the Norwegian Labour Party lost many of its voters to the Socialist Left, with the Socialist Left increasing from 6% to 12.5% of the national vote, again becoming the fourth largest party in the country. However, this growth did not last long. In the 2005 election, the party gathered 8.8% of the vote; this further decreased in the 2009 election, when the party gathered 6.2% of the vote; and again in the 2013 election, when the party gathered 4.1%, 1,600 votes away from falling under the election threshold.