Jari Bakken
2026
An Examination of the Party Leanings of Large Language Models
Lars Bungum | Charles Huang | Jari Bakken
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences (PoliticalNLP 2026)
Lars Bungum | Charles Huang | Jari Bakken
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences (PoliticalNLP 2026)
This paper examines the party leanings of international and Norwegian large language models. The experiments are two-fold; first they are asked to answer the question of a Valgomat–an election affiliation guide–as a neutral observer, and secondly as if it were a paying party member of the parties in the data. Results show that the neutral prompting show centrist leanings, whereas models struggle with mimicking party members. Models with additional training on Norwegian text performed better on this task.