Norway Local Election Results - 12-09-2011

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I'd not forgotten about the elections, but I did forget to make a thread. Interesting set of results anyway; I love how that site has historical data and so on.

Is that everything counted?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Checked the results for Bardu, and, yeah, the sort of pattern you'd expect. Interesting though.

Oh, and I love how the little parties win loads of places in local elections. Friends and neighbours and all that.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It's interesting that you have the same sort of pattern going on on both the right and the left; even if it's far more extreme on the right, obviously.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

What's up with Venstre? Have some areas where they retain former strength in municipal elections but not nationals?

Yeah. There's at least one municipality (Hurdal, in Akershus) where they came first. But not, interestingly, in the county elections (32% in the one, 12% in the other).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

These are actually very, very good mid-term local election results for a government that's been in power as long as this one. Though whether you can read much into that, given the reason for the good Labour turnout, is less than certain.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

A little bit of historical context. This is from an article by Stein Rokkan written in 1962:

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