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Municipal and county council election, candidates and representatives
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.
Selected figures from the statistics
- Members of the local councils, by sexDownload table as ...Members of the local councils, by sex
Members (per cent) 2015 2019 2023 Males 61 60 59 Females 39 40 41 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - 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 2015 2019 2023 2015 2019 2023 Both sex Labour Party 201 148 111 47.0 41.7 31.1 Progress Party 5 3 14 1.2 0.8 3.9 Conservative Party 74 34 101 17.3 9.6 28.3 Christian Democratic Party 15 9 12 3.5 2.5 3.4 Centre Party 98 131 89 22.9 36.9 24.9 Socialist Left Party 1 6 5 0.2 1.7 1.4 Liberal Party 6 2 1 1.4 0.6 0.3 Green Party 0 1 0 0.0 0.3 0.0 Common lists 12 5 3 2.8 1.4 0.8 Local lists 16 17 20 3.7 4.8 5.6 Other lists 0 0 1 0.0 0.0 0.3 Males Labour Party 132 90 64 43.0 39.3 28.3 Progress Party 5 3 11 1.6 1.3 4.9 Conservative Party 57 26 72 18.6 11.4 31.9 Christian Democratic Party 12 9 10 3.9 3.9 4.4 Centre Party 76 84 53 24.8 36.7 23.5 Socialist Left Party 0 3 3 0.0 1.3 1.3 Liberal Party 3 1 0 1.0 0.4 0.0 Green Party 0 1 0 0.0 0.4 0.0 Common lists 9 2 0 2.9 0.9 0.0 Local lists 13 11 13 4.2 4.8 5.8 Other lists 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Females Labour Party 69 58 47 57.0 46.0 35.9 Progress Party 0 0 3 0.0 0.0 2.3 Conservative Party 17 8 29 14.0 6.3 22.1 Christian Democratic Party 3 0 2 2.5 0.0 1.5 Centre Party 22 47 36 18.2 37.3 27.5 Socialist Left Party 1 3 2 0.8 2.4 1.5 Liberal Party 3 1 1 2.5 0.8 0.8 Green Party 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Common lists 3 3 3 2.5 2.4 2.3 Local lists 3 6 7 2.5 4.8 5.3 Other lists 0 0 1 0.0 0.0 0.8 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 2015 2019 2023 Males Females Males Females Males Females Labour Party Total 1 942 1 519 1 400 1 183 1 177 1 078 18-29 years 172 212 139 172 90 132 30-39 years 255 279 164 197 132 165 40-49 years 483 492 330 374 235 271 50-59 years 518 352 390 305 350 323 60 years or older 514 184 377 135 370 187 Progress Party Total 649 240 519 182 706 301 18-29 years 57 33 46 25 56 35 30-39 years 73 39 65 28 80 46 40-49 years 176 73 127 54 120 63 50-59 years 184 61 152 51 246 92 60 years or older 159 34 129 24 204 65 Conservative Party Total 1 251 703 949 539 1 166 685 18-29 years 91 81 79 74 95 71 30-39 years 135 103 112 79 112 94 40-49 years 352 243 254 165 228 167 50-59 years 366 170 271 156 373 233 60 years or older 307 106 233 65 358 120 Christian Democratic Party Total 406 217 268 143 254 142 18-29 years 16 18 15 10 17 9 30-39 years 48 26 33 23 27 18 40-49 years 104 66 65 43 51 44 50-59 years 118 67 91 44 75 43 60 years or older 120 40 64 23 84 28 Centre Party Total 1 064 710 1 358 907 864 620 18-29 years 75 93 126 130 74 73 30-39 years 171 178 231 216 121 141 40-49 years 290 216 333 266 183 162 50-59 years 305 155 360 216 252 160 60 years or older 223 68 308 79 234 84 Socialist Left Party Total 188 172 210 249 238 291 18-29 years 14 15 28 31 20 29 30-39 years 22 36 37 69 48 76 40-49 years 37 49 48 76 47 85 50-59 years 47 46 38 33 54 48 60 years or older 68 26 59 40 69 53 Liberal Party Total 337 209 165 99 183 125 18-29 years 18 19 8 7 16 11 30-39 years 68 49 24 25 31 33 40-49 years 87 73 49 41 47 36 50-59 years 87 37 42 19 43 34 60 years or older 77 31 42 7 46 11 Green Party Total . . 159 151 94 75 18-29 years . . 15 31 8 10 30-39 years . . 44 42 18 18 40-49 years . . 50 44 25 29 50-59 years . . 29 16 24 14 60 years or older . . 21 18 19 4 Other lists Total 510 274 534 329 728 384 18-29 years 23 25 26 37 19 21 30-39 years 53 50 71 69 82 76 40-49 years 117 93 121 91 154 99 50-59 years 126 65 123 76 206 109 60 years or older 191 41 193 56 267 79 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
About the statistics
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 10 June 2021.
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
No external users have access to the statistics and analyses before they are published and accessible simultaneously for all users on ssb.no at 08 am. Prior to this, a minimum of three months' advance notice is given inthe Statistics Release Calendar. This is one of Statistics Norway’s key principles for ensuring that all users are treated equally.
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.