Helga Pedersen is a Norwegian politician,former Minister,and member of the Storting,who served as the deputy leader for the Labour Party from 2007 to 2015. A native of Sør-Varanger Municipality,she served between 2003 and 2005 as the County Mayor of the northernmost Finnmark county. From 2005 to 2009 she served as Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs,becoming the youngest member of the Labour-led Red-Green Coalition headed by Jens Stoltenberg.
Thomas Breen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He represented Hedmark in the Norwegian Parliament from 2009 to 2013,where he was elected to deputise for Knut Storberget,who was appointed to a government position. He previously served as a deputy representative from 2005 to 2009,during which he deputised for Storberget.
Raymond Johansen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He served as Governing Mayor of Oslo from 2015 to 2023. A former member of the Socialist Left Party,Johansen previously served as the Oslo city commissioner for transport and environment from 1992 to 1995,when his party withdrew from the city cabinet. After joining Labour,he served as the party secretary from 2009 to 2015.
Tor Ottar Karlsen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
Eirik Lae Solberg is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He has served as the governing mayor of Oslo since 2023 and was previously the Oslo City Commissioner for Finance from 2014 to 2015. Lae Solberg has also been a deputy member of parliament for Oslo since 2021,having previously done so between 1993 and 1997 for Buskerud.
Gunnar Johannes Viken is a Norwegian dairy farmer and politician for the Conservative Party. Since 2007 he has been county mayor of Nord-Trøndelag County Municipality.
Akershus County Municipality was the regional governing administration of the old Akershus county in Norway. The county municipality was established in its most recent form on 1 January 1976 when the law was changed to allow elected county councils in Norway. The county municipality was dissolved on 1 January 2020,when Akershus was merged with the neighboring counties of Buskerud and Østfold,creating the new Viken county which is led by the Viken County Municipality. The administrative seat is located in Oslo and the county mayor was Anette Solli. On 1 January 2024,Akershus was re-established as an independent county with expanded borders due to municipal amalgamations in 2020,which will not be reversed.
Tore Onshuus Sandvik is a Norwegian politician. Between 2003 and 2023,he served as the Chairman of the County Council of Sør-Trøndelag until 2018,and Trøndelag until 2023.
Ivar Bühring Prestbakmo is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He currently serves as a deputy member of the Storting for Troms since 2021,having previously done so from 1993 to 2001. Prestbakmo was mayor of Salangen from 1999 to 2014,when he became county commissioner for transport and the environment until 2019.
Buskerud County Municipality was the regional governing administration of the old Buskerud county in Norway. The county municipality was established in its most recent form on 1 January 1976 when the law was changed to allow elected county councils in Norway. The county municipality was dissolved on 1 January 2020,when Buskerud was merged with the neighboring counties of Akershus and Østfold,creating the new Viken county which is led by the Viken County Municipality. The administrative seat is located in Drammen and the county mayor was Roger Ryberg.
Marianne Borgen is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party,who served as Mayor of Oslo from 2015 to 2023.
Beint Kristian Bentsen was a Norwegian banker and politician for the Christian Democratic Party. He is best known as county mayor of Rogaland in the 1970s,but was also a member of four different municipal councils,an unusual achievement.
Østfold County Municipality was the regional governing administration of the old Østfold county in Norway. The county municipality was established in its most recent form on 1 January 1976 when the law was changed to allow elected county councils in Norway. The county municipality was dissolved on 1 January 2020,when Østfold was merged with the neighboring counties of Akershus and Buskerud,creating the new Viken county which is led by the Viken County Municipality. The administrative seat is located in Sarpsborg and the county mayor was Ole Haabeth.
Kristina Torbergsen is a Norwegian politician representing the Labour Party.
Even Aleksander Hagen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
Local elections were held in Norway on 9 September 2019. Voters elected representatives to municipal and county councils,which are responsible for education,public transport,health,and elderly care,and for the levy of certain taxes.
Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark. The new county has an area of 52,113 square kilometres (20,121 sq mi),making it the largest county in Norway after Troms og Finnmark was split up in 2024.
Viken was a short-lived county in Norway that existed from 1 January 2020 to 1 January 2024. Its name was derived from the historical region that has been defined as an area in what is now western Sweden since the late middle ages. The county was located in Eastern Norway when it was established on 1 January 2020 by the merger of Akershus,Buskerud and Østfold with the addition of the municipalities of Jevnaker,Lunner and the former Svelvik Municipality. Both its creation and its name—described as unhistorical by historians—were controversial from the onset,the merger was resisted by all the three counties and the new county had an approval rating of about 20% in the region. Viken has been compared to gerrymandering. The newly constructed coat of arms of Viken lacked a historical basis and was described by experts as an amateurish logo that did not adhere to the rules of heraldry,and as "three flying saucers under a cap." The county executive of Viken determined in 2019,before the merger had taken effect,that the county's disestablishment was its main political goal,and the formal process to dissolve Viken was initiated by the county executive right after the 2021 Norwegian parliamentary election in which parties seeking to reverse the merger won a majority. The political platform of the government of Jonas Gahr Støre stated that the government would dissolve Viken and re-establish Akershus,Buskerud and Østfold based on a request from the county itself. On 22 February 2022,the regional assembly of Viken approved the formal request to disestablish the county,and the disestablishment took effect on 1 January 2024.
Kathy Lie is a Norwegian nurse and politician for the Socialist Left Party. She has been a member of the Storting since 2021.
The 2023 Norwegian local elections were held on 11 September 2023. Voters elected representatives to municipal and county councils,which are responsible for education,public transportation,healthcare,elderly care,waste disposal,the levy of certain taxes,and more. All council seats were up for election across the 15 counties and 357 municipalities of Norway.
