Municipal and county council election, candidates and representatives

Updated: 11 January 2024

Next update: Not yet determined

Female representatives

2023

41

%

Members of the local councils, by sex
	Members (per cent)
Males	61	60	59
Females	39	40	41

Selected tables and charts from this statistics

Table 1Chairmen, by party/electoral list at the Municipal Council election

Chairmen, by party/electoral list at the Municipal Council election
Party/electoral list	Figures			Per cent
Party/electoral list	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 symbols

Source

StatBank source table 04772

StatBank source table 04774

Table 2Member of the local councils, by party/electoral list, age and sex.

Member of the local councils, by party/electoral list, age and sex.
Party/electoral list/age	2015		2019		2023
Party/electoral list/age	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 symbols

Source

StatBank source table 04964

More figures from this statistics

See complete overview in Statbank (36)

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 information under «About the statistics» was last updated 10 June 2021.

Definitions

Definitions of the main concepts and variables

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.

Standard classifications

Classification of municipalities

Classification of county municipality

Classification of region

Administrative information

Name and topic

Name: Municipal and county council election, candidates and representatives
Topic: Elections

Next update

Not yet determined

Responsible division

Division for Population Statistics

Regional level

For municipal council election: Municipal level and regional level.

For county council election: County level.

Frequency and timeliness

Ever four years (election year).

International reporting

Not relevant

Microdata

The statistics files are stored in Statistics Norway. Microdata can be supplied for research purposes.

Background

Background and purpose

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.

Users and applications

Ministries, Municipalities and county municipalities, journalists and students ,political parties, election researchers

Equal treatment of users

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.

Coherence with other statistics

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.

Legal authority

Act on Official Statistics and Statistics Norway §§ 10 and 20.

EEA reference

Not relevant

Production

Population

The population consists of elected representatives in municipal councils and county councils.

Data sources and sampling

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.

Collection of data, editing and estimations

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.

Seasonal adjustment

Not relevant

Confidentiality

Suppression if direct identification is possible with regard to sensitive information.

Comparability over time and space

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.

Accuracy and reliability

Sources of error and uncertainty

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.

Revision

Not relevant