Labour Party loser in council chair elections

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In the chairman (mayor) elections following the municipal council elections in 1995, 41 fewer chairmen from the Labour Party were elected compared to the 1991 elections. The party now holds the chair in 144 of Norway's 435 municipalities (local governments). The agrarian Centre Party gained 18 chairmen in last year's elections, and now has nearly as many chairmen as the Labour Party.

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New statistics

Election statistics. Election of municipal council and county council chairmen, 1995.
Statistics from the municipal council and county council chairman elections are published after every local election in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics. Statistics from the executive committee elections for local councils are published in the Official Statistics of Norway (NOS) Regional Statistics. More information: Nelly Klatstølen, tel. +47 62 88 52 98 and Tor Jørgensen, tel. +47 62 88 52 69.

Weekly Bulletin ed. 14-15, 1996