Norwegian local elections, 1979

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Country-wide local elections for seats in municipality and county councils were held throughout Norway in 1979. For most places this meant that two elections, the municipal elections and the county elections ran concurrently.

Results

Municipal elections

Results of the 1979 municipal elections.^[1]

e • d Summary of the 1979 municipal election results

Parties		Votes
		#	%	± %
	Norwegian Labour Party (Det norske Arbeiderparti)	768,423	35.9	-2.1
	Conservative Party (Høyre)	625,974	29.2	+7.4
	Christian Democratic Party (Kristelig Folkeparti)	210,937	9.8	-1.7
	Centre Party (Senterpartiet)	182,248	8.5	-2.2
	Liberal Party (Venstre)	111,250	5.2	+1.5
	Socialist Left Party (Sosialistisk Venstreparti)	88,147	4.1	-1.4
	Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet)	40,928	1.9	+0.9
	Liberal People's Party (Det Liberale Folkeparti)	21,893	1.0	-1.5
	Red Electoral Alliance (Rød Valgallianse)	14,614	0.7	+0.3
	Communist Party of Norway (Norges Kommunistiske Parti)	5,942	0.3
	Others	72,877	3.4
	Total	2,143,233

County elections

Results of the 1979 county elections.^[1]

e • d Summary of the 1979 county election results

Parties		Votes			Seats
		#	%	± %	#	±
	Norwegian Labour Party (Det norske Arbeiderparti)		36.0	-2.1
	Conservative Party (Høyre)		29.9	+7.3
	Christian Democratic Party (Kristelig Folkeparti)		10.2	-2.1
	Centre Party (Senterpartiet)		8.6	-2.6
	Liberal Party (Venstre)		5.3	+1.5
	Socialist Left Party (Sosialistisk Venstreparti)		4.4	-1.3
	Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet)		2.5	+0.9
	Liberal People's Party (Det Liberale Folkeparti)		1.3	-1.6
	Red Electoral Alliance (Rød Valgallianse)		0.8	+0.3
	Communist Party of Norway (Norges Kommunistiske Parti)		0.5
	Others		0.6	-0.6
	Total

References

1. ^ ^{a b} [1]