Municipal and county council election, candidates and representatives
Updated: 16 January 2020
Modified:
Next update: 3 July 2023
| Members (per cent) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2015 | 2019 | |
| Males | 62 | 61 | 60 |
| Females | 38 | 39 | 40 |
Selected tables and figures from this statistics
- Chairmen, by party/electoral list at the Municipal Council electionDownload table as ...Chairmen, by party/electoral list at the Municipal Council election
Party/electoral list Figures Per cent 2011 2015 2019 2011 2015 2019 Both sex Labour Party 153 201 148 35.7 47 41.6 Progress Party 11 5 3 2.6 1.2 0.8 Conservative Party 119 74 34 27.7 17.3 9.6 Christian Democratic Party 17 15 9 4 3.5 2.5 Centre Party 87 98 131 20.3 22.9 36.8 Socialist Left Party 3 1 6 0.7 0.2 1.7 Liberal Party 6 6 2 1.4 1.4 0.6 Norwegian green Party 0 0 1 0 0 0.3 Common lists 10 12 5 2.3 2.8 1.4 Local lists 17 16 17 4 3.7 4.8 Other lists 6 0 0 1.4 0 0 Males Labour Party 119 132 90 35.7 43 39.1 Progress Party 11 5 3 3.3 1.6 1.3 Conservative Party 87 57 26 26.1 18.6 11.3 Christian Democratic Party 12 12 9 3.6 3.9 3.9 Centre Party 71 76 84 21.3 24.8 36.5 Socialist Left Party 2 0 3 0.6 0 1.3 Liberal Party 4 3 1 1.2 1 0.4 Norwegian green Party 0 0 1 0 0 0.4 Common lists 8 9 2 2.4 2.9 0.9 Local lists 14 13 11 4.2 4.2 4.8 Other lists 5 0 0 1.5 0 0 Females Labour Party 34 69 58 35.4 57 46 Progress Party 0 0 0 0 0 0 Conservative Party 32 17 8 33.3 14 6.3 Christian Democratic Party 5 3 0 5.2 2.5 0 Centre Party 16 22 47 16.7 18.2 37.3 Socialist Left Party 1 1 3 1 0.8 2.4 Liberal Party 2 3 1 2.1 2.5 0.8 Norwegian green Party 0 0 0 0 0 0 Common lists 2 3 3 2.1 2.5 2.4 Local lists 3 3 6 3.1 2.5 4.8 Other lists 1 0 0 1 0 0 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Member of the local councils, by party/electoral list, age and sex.Download table as ...Member of the local councils, by party/electoral list, age and sex.
Party/electoral list/age 2011 2015 2019 Males Females Males Females Males Females Labour Party Total 1 896 1 482 1 942 1 519 1 400 1 183 18-29 years 165 225 172 212 139 172 30-39 years 270 314 255 279 164 197 40-49 years 476 472 483 492 330 374 50-59 years 555 323 518 352 390 305 60 years or older 430 148 514 184 377 135 Progress Party Total 837 306 649 240 519 182 18-29 years 51 36 57 33 46 25 30-39 years 115 73 73 39 65 28 40-49 years 262 93 176 73 127 54 50-59 years 220 69 184 61 152 51 60 years or older 189 35 159 34 129 24 Conservative Party Total 1 519 828 1 251 703 949 539 18-29 years 120 100 91 81 79 74 30-39 years 207 155 135 103 112 79 40-49 years 451 309 352 243 254 165 50-59 years 421 160 366 170 271 156 60 years or older 320 104 307 106 233 65 Christian Democratic Party Total 416 237 406 217 268 143 18-29 years 22 16 16 18 15 10 30-39 years 58 38 48 26 33 23 40-49 years 103 59 104 66 65 43 50-59 years 112 80 118 67 91 44 60 years or older 121 44 120 40 64 23 Centre Party Total 863 557 1 064 710 1 358 907 18-29 years 63 65 75 93 126 130 30-39 years 118 145 171 178 231 216 40-49 years 250 174 290 216 333 266 50-59 years 261 125 305 155 360 216 60 years or older 171 48 223 68 308 79 Socialist Left Party Total 177 185 188 172 210 249 18-29 years 13 15 14 15 28 31 30-39 years 21 45 22 36 37 69 40-49 years 36 49 37 49 48 76 50-59 years 58 56 47 46 38 33 60 years or older 49 20 68 26 59 40 Liberal Party Total 389 251 337 209 165 99 18-29 years 31 16 18 19 8 7 30-39 years 71 58 68 49 24 25 40-49 years 101 81 87 73 49 41 50-59 years 115 60 87 37 42 19 60 years or older 71 36 77 31 42 7 Norwegian green Party Total . . 130 103 159 151 18-29 years . . 11 14 15 31 30-39 years . . 42 36 44 42 40-49 years . . 31 26 50 44 50-59 years . . 29 19 29 16 60 years or older . . 17 8 21 18 Other lists Total 573 269 510 274 534 329 18-29 years 33 27 23 25 26 37 30-39 years 63 59 53 50 71 69 40-49 years 125 93 117 93 121 91 50-59 years 173 58 126 65 123 76 60 years or older 179 32 191 41 193 56 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
More figures from this statistics
- 06523: List nominees at municipal council election, by party/electoral list, age and sex
- 01182: Representatives at municipal council election, by sex and party/electoral list
- 06538: List nominees at the county council election, by party/electoral list, age and sex (per cent)
- 01183: Representatives at the county council election, by sex and party/electoral list
- 09494: Chairmen and members of the local council, by sex and party/electoral list
About the statistics
The statistics show candidates, representatives, chairmen and members of executive comittees by gender, age, education and immigrant background. Figures by county and municipalities with time series from 1945.
The party of the chairman/deputy chairman, county council chairman/deputy county council chairman: Elected persons are listed under the party/electoral list they stood for election for. If elected from a joint list, local list or other lists, they will be included in these lists, irrespective of party. The same applies to municipal council representatives and executive committee/county cabinet representatives. Re-elected representatives in the executive committee/county cabinet: Executive committee/county cabinet representatives are defined as re-elected if they were members of the sitting executive committee/county cabinet on the election day. Since 2003, information on re-elected representatives and number of periods for all municipal council representatives and county council representatives has been collected. This information is also combined with information on country background, education, occupational status and industry.
Name: Municipal and county council election, candidates and representatives
Topic: Elections
Division for Population Statistics
For municipal council election: Municipal level and regional level.
For county council election: County level.
Ever four years (election year).
The statistics files are stored in Statistics Norway. Microdata can be supplied for research purposes.
The purpose is to make official statistics on all parties candidates for municipal and county council prior to the election. After the constitution of the municipal councils and the county councils, official statistics is produced from the municipal council and county council election and the executive committee of local council and chairmen election. Since 2003, Statistics Norway has collected the national identity number of all representatives so that they can be combined with various variables such as income, country background, education and occupational status.
Ministries, Municipalities and county municipalities, journalists and students ,political parties, election researchers
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Aggregated elections results are published on election night on valg.no. https://www.regjeringen.no/no/portal/valg/id456491/. Municipalities publishes information for their own municipality on their homepage. The official statistics for Municipal and county elections published by SSB are included in a statistical system along with statistics for parliamentary elections, Sami Parliamentary elections and local referendums. This is a part of Stat Norway's system of Social Statistics inncluding population statistics and social welfare statistics with common terms and definitions.
Act on Official Statistics and Statistics Norway §§ 10 and 20.
The population consists of elected representatives in municipal councils and county councils.
SSB receive administrative data on the candidates from The Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation before the election. SSB performs a separate collection of representatives via internet based form from all municipalities and counties after the election. The data source consists of electronic questionnaires on the Internet. These are completed by the counties and municipalities, and submitted to Statistics Norway.
Full count of all candidates and elected representatives.
The municipalities and county municipalities receive one form each.
Manual and computerised controls are carried out, mainly to check that the total figures are correct and logical checks. The results are compared with the results of the previous election. Micro editing is performed if differences are discovered.
Suppression if direct identification is possible with regard to sensitive information.
Information on chairmen's parties is available back to 1934. Information on executive committees is available from the 1979 election, but only at county level for the earliest elections. Information on chairmen and deputy chairmen of the county councils is available back to 1979. Since 2003, information on all municipal council and county council representatives has been collected.
It is essential for the quality of the statistics that the information from the counties and municipalities is correct. If the elected representatives are listed as belonging to parties that stood for election, it is difficult to check if the distribution between the parties is correct. Furthermore, the representatives' parties are coded before registration and there is always a risk of errors despite comprehensive controls.
