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Elections: Municipal council and county council elections
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Electoral tunout and age
Reports 2021/22
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Party choice by some social characteristics in the last general and local elections
Reports 2020/47
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This is Norway 2020
This is Norway presents statistics from a variety of areas and seeks to give an overview of Norwegian society and its developments in recent years.
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Persons entitled to vote in the municipal and county council elections 2019
Reports 2019/25
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Women and men in Norway 2018
Who are the women and men in Norway? Statistics Norway presents similarities and differences between women and men in Norway within areas of society we can describe with statistics in Women and men in Norway.
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Immigrants and the 2015 municipal and county council elections
Reports 2017/10
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Do refugees get involved in local politics?
Statistical analysis 2017
Municipal election statistics for 2015 show that immigrants have a lower voter turnout than other voters in Norway, and that refugees are generally no more politically engaged than the majority of immigrants. Two per cent of municipal council repr...
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Centre left still favoured by women
The Labour Party, Socialist Left Party and the Red party received 44 per cent of the votes from women in the municipal elections in 2015. If we add the Centre Party, more than half of the female electorate voted for the Centre left. The Conservati...
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Lower voter turnout than Sweden and Denmark
Voter turnout in local elections has been falling in Norway and most of Europe in recent decades. Four years ago, the number going to the polls in Norway increased, from 62 to 65 per cent. The share of the Norwegian electorate that exercises its r...
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Female chairmen in three out of ten municipalities
Twenty-eight per cent of the chairmen in Norwegian municipal councils are women. This is an increase of six percentage points from the 2011 election when 96 of the chairmen were women. The Labour Party and the Centre Party gained most chairmen. Am...
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Voter turnout highest among women
The turnout in the 2015 elections was 62 per cent among women and 57 per cent among men. Among the over 67s, however, participation is higher among men. Among those with a tertiary education, almost 8 out of 10 voted, while among those without an ...
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Voter turnout decreased in most municipalities
The turnout in the municipal elections this autumn was 60.0 per cent; a decrease of 4.2 percentage points compared to the 2011 municipal elections. Sixty-five of the 428 municipalities saw an increase in voter turnout, while the remainder saw a de...
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218 000 new voters are eligible to vote
A total of 4 025 950 persons are eligible to vote this year. This is an increase of 218 000 since the previous municipal and county elections. The biggest increase is among voters with an immigrant background. A total of 534 000 voters in this gro...
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Electoral turnout among persons with immigrant background
Reports 2015/33
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60 000 list nominees
For this year’s county and municipal elections, 59 983 nominees are candidates. The proportion of females is 43 per cent. The share with an immigrant background is 4.2 per cent; an increase of 0.7 percentage points compared to the local elections ...
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