Municipal council and county council elections
Statistics
Analyses, articles and publications
- Immigrants and the Local Election 2023
In this report, we provide an overview of the participation and representation of immigrants and Norwegian-born with immigrant parents in the municipal election in 2023.
- Municipal elections 2023 and 2019
The municipal council and county council elections 2023 were held on 11 September 2023. There were elections for 357 different municipal and city councils, as well as 14 county councils. This report is only about the local council elections, for the entire country as a whole.
- Immigrants and the Local Election 2019
All foreign nationals with three years of legal residence in Norway were given the right to vote in local elections in 1983. Over the last elections there has been a steady increase in the number of persons with immigrant background who are entitled to vote.
- Gender or class – What determines voting?
Previous literature has found that extending the suffrage to both females and poorer voters increases the supply of public goods.
- Localelection Survey 2019
In 2017, the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) decided to reduce the number of municipalities in Norway from 426 to 358. The municipal and regional reform was completed on 1.1 2020.