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Moderate Liberal Party (Norwegian: Moderate Venstre) was a Norwegian political party that was demerged from the Liberal Party in 1888, consisting mainly of the Low Church. The party became the third Norwegian parliamentary party. Important issues included temperance, religion and moral, as such the party is sometimes considered the predecessor of the Christian Democrats. When the party chairman Lars Oftedal entered cooperation with the Conservatives, part of the party returned to the Liberals, turning the Moderate Liberals even more into a landowners party. But unlike the Conservatives, the Moderate Liberals were in favour of increased home rule and eventually independence. When the Conservatives changed opinion of the union and the Union Party was founded, Moderate Liberals joind this. In 1906 the Moderate Liberal Party became part of Høyre. The remaining Liberal Party was often referred to as the Broad-Minided Liberal Party while the moderates were in existence.
