2003 Norwegian county council election explained

The 2003 county council election was held on Monday 15 September 2003 for all eighteen county councils in Norway. The election was held parallel to the municipal council election.

Votes

Aggregates votes[1] !Party!Votes!%!+/-!Seats!+/-!Mayors
Total 1,928,300 100.0 787 19
Labour Party (Ap, Arbeiderpartiet) 520,558 27,0 223 7
Progress Party (Frp, Fremskrittspartiet) 346,020 17.9 137
Conservative Party (H, Høyre) 344,171 17.8 128 3
Socialist Left Party (SV, Sosialistisk Venstreparti) 251,551 13.0 102 1
Centre Party (Sp, Senterpartiet) 155,137 8.0 80 4
Christian Democrats (KrF, Kristelig Folkeparti) 132,540 6.9 59 4
Liberal Party (V, Venstre) 71,026 3.7 30
Pensioners Party (Pp, Pensjonistpartiet) 1.7 8
Red Electoral Alliance (RV, Rød Valgallianse) 1.5 8
Coastal Party (Kp, Kystpartiet) 0.6 4
Democrats (D, Demokratene) 0.3 1
Sunnmøre List (Sl, Sunnmørslista) 0.3 3
Green Party (MDG, Miljøpartiet De Grønne) 0.2
Vestfold List (Vl, Vestfoldlista) 0.1 2
Communist Party (NKP, Norges Kommunistiske Parti) 0.1 0
Sami People's Party (Samefolkets parti) 0.1 2
Other 0.6
Votes, percent by county[2] !County! Ap! Frp! H! SV! Sp! KrF! V! Pp! RV! Kp! D! Sl! MDG! Vl! NKP! Sa! Other
25.7 18.6 25.6 13.6 4.4 4.2 2.3 0.2 0.1 1.3
22.0 19.6 16.5 11.8 7.7 14.2 2.5 0.8 0.2 0.3
30.6 19.0 22.3 11.0 7.3 4.5 3.0 1.1 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.2
30.2 11.0 12.8 14.9 4.7 3.7 1.8 3.1 0.8 4.7
39.8 11.7 9.4 13.1 14.1 3.1 3.0 4.6 0.7 0.2 0.2
23.1 21.5 19.1 11.1 6.5 8.6 3.4 2.1 2.7 0.6 0.3 0.5 0.1 0.3
19.4 20.7 16.0 7.8 11.0 10.8 5.6 1.3 0.6 0.6 0.1 5.8 0.2
31.1 15.7 11.3 16.1 11.0 4.6 3.0 1.2 2.1 3.4 0.2 0.4
34.9 10.3 7.7 13.5 22.4 4.8 4.8 0.6 0.4 0.1 0.3
40.5 12.2 9.2 11.0 16.7 4.3 2.9 1.4 1.0 0.2 0.1 0.4
25.2 16.5 25.0 20.3 3.0 4.2 0.9 3.1 0.1 1.9
18.6 23.2 20.7 9.0 7.4 12.1 2.9 0.9 0.4 0.1 0.3 0.6
25.4 8.5 9.7 10.2 28.8 7.1 10.2 1.5 0.6 0.1
30.8 11.9 16.2 14.9 10.5 5.0 3.0 3.4 1.9 0.4 0.6 0.9 0.2 0.1
34.5 21.2 9.7 13.2 8.4 7.8 3.0 1.5 0.2 0.2 0.3
27.0 16.2 11.5 14.5 12.3 7.8 2.8 2.2 3.1 0.4 0.6 0.3 1.3
17.7 17.6 17.5 10.6 5.9 21.0 3.8 1.0 0.3 2.4 0.2 2.0
22.6 25.3 18.3 11.5 4.8 5.7 2.5 1.7 2.2 0.2 0.1 0.5 4.5
31.7 20.8 14.4 11.3 7.3 7.7 1.9 2.5 1.5 0.3 0.3 0.4

Seats

43 11 8 11 6 2 2 2 1
35 8 7 6 4 3 5 1 1
43 14 8 10 5 3 2 1
35 14 4 55 2 1 1 2
33 13 4 3 4 5 1 1 2
57 13 13 11 6 4 5 2 1 2
47 9 10 8 5 5 4 3 3
53 17 8 6 9 6 2 2 1 2
35 12 3 3 5 8 2 2
37 15 5 4 4 6 2 1
59 15 10 15 12 2 2 2
47 9 11 10 4 4 6 2 1
39 10 3 4 3 12 3 4
37 12 4 6 6 4 2 1 1 1
41 14 9 4 6 4 3 1
37 10 6 4 6 5 3 1 1 1
35 7 6 6 4 2 8 1
39 9 10 7 5 2 2 1 1 2
35 11 8 5 4 3 3 1

County mayors

County mayors!County!Chairman!Party!Deputy!Party
Christian Democrat Labour
Labour
Labour
Labour Socialist Left
Christian Democrat Conservative
Labour Christian Democrat
Centre Labour
Centre Labour
Labour Socialist Left
Conservative Progress Party
Conservative Labour
Centre Labour
Labour Centre
Conservative Centre
Centre Christian Democrats
Christian Democrat Labour
Labour Christian Democrat
Labour Christian Democrat

Cabinets

County cabinets!County!Chairman!Parties
Labour, Socialist Left
Labour, Socialist Left
Labour, Centre
Conservative, Progress
Labour, Centre, Christian Democrat, Coastal

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fylkestingvalget 2003. Godkjente stemmer etter parti/valgliste. . Statistics Norway . Statistics Norway . Norwegian . 2007-07-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071001044718/http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/01/20/kommvalg/tab-2004-04-05-11.html . 2007-10-01.
  2. Web site: Fylkestingsvalget 2003. Godkjente stemmer, etter parti/valgliste. Kommune. Prosent . Statistics Norway . Statistics Norway . Norwegian . 2007-07-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071001045835/http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/01/20/kommvalg/tab-2004-04-05-12.html . 2007-10-01.
  3. Web site: Fylkestingvalget 2003. Representanter etter parti/valgliste. Kommune . Statistics Norway . Statistics Norway . Norwegian . 2007-07-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071001045501/http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/01/20/kommvalg/tab-2004-04-05-15.html . 2007-10-01.