2011 Norwegian local elections

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Nationwide local elections for seats in municipality and county councils were held throughout Norway on 12 September 2011. [1] Several municipalities also opened the polling booths on 11 September. [1] For polling stations this meant that two elections, the municipal elections and the county elections ran concurrently. In addition, an advisory referendum was held in Aust-Agder to determine whether to merge the county with Vest-Agder.

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Overall, the Conservative Party made the greatest gains, and the Labour Party also advanced and remained the largest party. On the other hand, the Progress Party and the Socialist Left Party suffered severe setbacks. [2]

Term of office was 1 January 2012 until 31 December 2015.

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Electronic voting

Electronic voting over the internet was tried out in certain areas for the first time in Norway, with the ultimate goal of implementing full general availability for internet voting for the 2017 parliamentary elections. [3]

Voting age of 16

In 2008, Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa, the Minister of Local Government and Regional Development announced that she was considering lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 in some municipalities as a trial. Three municipalities had applied for this in the 2007 election, but were turned down. [4]

Parliament decided to give adolescents of age 16 and 17 the right to vote in selected municipalities. Of 143 applicants, 20 municipalities plus Longyearbyen on Svalbard were selected for the trial. The municipalities taking part in the trial are: [5]

  1. Marker Municipality in Østfold
  2. Lørenskog Municipality in Akershus
  3. Hamar Municipality in Hedmark
  4. Vågå Municipality in Oppland
  5. Sigdal Municipality in Buskerud
  6. Re Municipality in Vestfold
  7. Porsgrunn Municipality in Telemark
  8. Grimstad Municipality in Aust-Agder
  9. Mandal Municipality in Vest-Agder
  10. Gjesdal Municipality in Rogaland
  11. Stavanger Municipality in Rogaland
  12. Austevoll Municipality in Hordaland
  13. Luster Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane
  14. Ålesund Municipality in Møre og Romsdal
  15. Osen Municipality in Sør-Trøndelag
  16. Namdalseid Municipality in Nord-Trøndelag
  17. Tysfjord Municipality in Nordland
  18. Kåfjord Municipality in Troms
  19. Hammerfest Municipality in Finnmark
  20. Kautokeino Municipality in Finnmark

Election campaign

Example of ballot paper (Socialist Left Party) Ballot paper for 2011 Norwegian regional election.jpg
Example of ballot paper (Socialist Left Party)

The issue of how and when the campaign would be conducted was affected by the 2011 Norway attacks on 22 July, which killed 77 people, most of them young supporters of the national Labour Party. On 24 July, the prime minister, the president of the Storting, and the parliamentary leaders of the political parties met for the first time to discuss rules for the political debates which would take place. Liv Signe Navarsete predicted that the election campaign would be considerably muted. [6] On 25 July, the parliamentary leaders of the political parties agreed to delay the start of the campaign until mid-August and to cancel the school debates, because of the 22 July attacks. The school elections were, however, not cancelled. [7]

Issues

One of the bigger issues for the local elections was a controversy about local hospitals in Møre og Romsdal, involving the cities Molde and Kristiansund which has hospitals today. [8] The current Red-Green government postponed the planned building of a new hospital in Molde, instead considering moving vital functions to it from Kristiansund, the local population in Molde saw the postponement as a broken promise, while the locals in Kristiansund wanted a common hospital instead due to the latter issue. [8] In early 2011, the Labour Party saw a shock opinion poll in Romsdal (which includes the city Molde) of a mere 5.8% support, which fell further in April to 1%. [8] The handling of the controversy by the party, and particularly its Minister of Health and Care Services, Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen, was seen as the reason for the fall. [8]

Debates

2011 Norwegian local election debates
DateTimeOrganizers P  Present   I  Invitee  N  Non-invitee 
Ap Sp H Sv KrF Frp V Rv Refs
9 Sep ??? NRK P
Jens Stoltenberg 		P
Liv Signe Navarsete 		P
Erna solberg 		P
Kristin Halvorsen 		P
Knut Arild Hareide 		P
Siv Jensen 		P
Trine Skei Grande 		P
Turid Thomassen 		[9]

Polling

Polling FirmDateSource Labour Party Conservative Party Progress Party Centre Party Christian Democratic Party Socialist Left Party Liberal Party Others
Last Election2007-09 29.6%19.3%17.5%8.0%6.4%6.2%5.9%7.1%
TNS Gallup2010-01 31.9%25.0%17.5%6.4%4.9%6.1%3.6%4.6%
TNS Gallup2010-07 25.9%27.1%20.0%6.1%4.5%5.8%4.9%5.7%
Norfakta2010-09 27.5%27.4%18.5%5.8%5.2%5.3%5.6%4.7%
Norfakta2011-01 22.5%30.1%17.5%5.4%4.9%6.7%6.3%6.6%
TNS Gallup2011-02 28.7%27.4%16.0%7.7%4.6%5.3%5.4%2.7%
Response2011-02 26.8%25.4%19.4%7.0%6.8%5.4%5.1%4.1%
TNS Gallup2011-03 26.8%29.3%16.1%7.6%5.1%5.6%5.6%3.9%
Response2011-03 28.4%28.7%17.0%6.8%4.7%5.7%5.4%3.3%
Sentio2011-03 28.9%23.7%17.7%6.9%6.1%4.2%6.0%6.5%
TNS Gallup2011-04 28.9%27.0%15.3%6.4%4.9%6.5%5.6%5.4%
InFact2011-04 28.5%23.5%18.9%6.8%5.0%5.5%5.8%5.9%
Norstat2011-05 30.6%28.9%13.6%6.4%4.6%4.7%5.5%5.6%
TNS Gallup2011-05 27.3%28.1%15.2%6.6%5.0%6.5%5.2%6.0%
TNS Gallup2011-06 27.0%31.0%13.2%5.3%6.9%6.5%4.9%5.1%
InFact2011-06 29.0%26.8%20.6%5.1%5.0%6.0%3.7%3.8%
InFact2011-07 24.9%27.0%16.9%7.5%5.7%5.2%6.1%6.7%
TNS Gallup12011-07 35.4%23.3%13.6%6.2%4.7%6.0%5.9%4.9%
Norstat2011-08 34.2%25.2%16.0%5.6%4.5%3.6%5.0%6.0%
TNS Gallup2011-08 33.8%24.9%12.7%4.9%6.0%6.8%6.2%4.7%
InFact2011-08 31.6%24.5%17.5%5.8%5.1%4.7%5.5%5.2%
Synovate2011-08 34.0%26.0%16.0%4.9%6.1%4.7%3.9%4.5%
InFact2011-08 32.4%25.0%12.9%5.7%7.2%6.3%5.3%5.2%
TNS Gallup2011-08 30.9%25.0%14.0%6.5%6.5%4.0%6.3%6.8%
TNS Gallup2011-09 31.3%27.3%12.8%5.9%6.0%4.5%6.9%4.5%
Synovate2011-09 31.0%25.1%15.3%6.2%7.0%4.4%6.1%4.9%
TNS Gallup2011-09 31.9%27.9%12.8%6.0%6.5%4.1%6.7%4.1%
Response2011-09 32.1%25.9%16.3%5.6%5.9%3.7%5.5%5.0%
TNS Gallup2011-09 34.3%27.1%11.3%5.2%6.2%3.6%5.7%6.6%
TNS Gallup2011-09 33.3%26.2%12.3%5.4%5.6%4.2%6.2%6.8%

1This was the first poll since the attacks in Norway.

Results

Municipal elections

PartyVotes%Seats
Labour Party 765,28931.663,373
Conservative Party 676,05927.972,349
Progress Party 274,55511.361,143
Centre Party 163,2466.751,419
Liberal Party 151,4066.26640
Christian Democratic Party 134,6535.57656
Socialist Left Party 98,2254.06364
Red Party 37,2411.5457
Green Party 21,7850.9018
Pensioners' Party 19,8510.8250
Democrats in Norway 4,3270.188
Coastal Party 4,0700.1741
Others66,4492.75663
Total2,417,156100.0010,781
Registered voters/turnout3,799,742–
Source: Government of Norway, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, TV2

County elections

PartyVotes%Seats
Labour Party 745,08733.19273
Conservative Party 620,50427.64210
Progress Party 263,91511.7696
Centre Party 141,5146.3061
Christian Democratic Party 129,9325.7947
Liberal Party 127,2265.6746
Socialist Left Party 96,8904.3234
Red Party 38,7231.737
Green Party 28,9521.292
Pensioners' Party 20,8400.933
Coastal Party 8,4460.383
Democrats in Norway 6,0330.271
Sunnmøre List 5,7180.253
Christian Unity Party 4,8290.220
Byluftslisten1,4360.060
Communist Party 1,2820.060
Sámi People's Party 1,2330.051
Vestfoldlisten mot bomringer8440.040
Society Democrats7990.040
Society Party 2890.010
Liberal People's Party 2470.010
Total2,244,739100.00787
Registered voters/turnout3,789,746–
Source: Government of Norway

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