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]

**Summary of the 1979 municipal election results**
Parties		Votes
Parties		#	%	± %
	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]

**Summary of the 1979 county election results**
Parties		Votes			Seats
Parties		#	%	± %	#	±
	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

Elections and referendums in Norway
Parliamentary elections	1814 (Constitution) 1814 (Autumn) 1815 1817 1820 1823 1826 1829 1832 1835 1838 1841 1844 1847 1850 1853 1856 1859 1862 1865 1868 1870 1873 1876 1879 1882 1885 1888 1891 1894 1897 1900 1903 1906 1909 1912 1915 1918 1921 1924 1927 1930 1933 1936 1945 1949 1953 1957 1961 1965 1969 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017
Local elections	1907 1910 1913 1916 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1945 1947 1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019
Sami elections	1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017
Referendums	1905 (Aug) 1905 (Nov) 1919 1926 1972 1994

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