 Among several known candidates that officially announced or were rumoured to be candidates for Party Leader were Bjørnar Moxnes, Mona Bjørn, Asgeir Drugli, Mimir Kristjansson, and Ingeborg Steinholt.Turid Thomassen was voted in as party leader of Red in May 2010.Thomassen has long experience from both the Workers' Communist Party and the Red Electoral Alliance.