Norwegian Election

[Jens]

Great little interactive map of the results: http://www7.nrk.no/nyheter/Valg05/valresultat/

It is interesting that some parties have very localized support in some communes (30+% where they are under 10).  For example the Centre Party in some areas on the west coast.

What is Kystparteit?  0.8% nation wide, 8.3% Troms County, 36.4% Karlsoy commune.  This is on the Arctic Coast, north of the Sweden-Finland border.  Is this a Lapp party?

No, Kystpartiet (Coast Party) is the party of one man, Steinar Bastesen, who is from Karlsøy and is a fisherman or whaler. Senterpartiet was originally called Peasants party and still has massive support in rural areas and very little in the cities

[AuH2O]

Progress is a great party.

[minionofmidas]

With 99,08% counted the Storting looks like this;

Ap: 32,8% +8,5% 61M +18M
SV:   8,7%  -3,8% 15M  -  8M
SP:   6,5% +1,0% 11M  + 1M

KrF:  6,8% -5,6%  11M  -11M
V:     5,9% +2,0% 10M  + 8M
H:   14,1% -7,1%  24M  -14M

FrP: 22,1%+7,4% 37M  -11M

RV:    1,2% +0,0%  0M   +0M
KP:    0,8% - 0,9%  0M    -1M

Just noticing the Right actually won the election (48.9 to 48.0; or 49.7 to 49.2 counting Kyst and RV) but lost the election law ... even though it's supposed to be very proportional.

[minionofmidas]

Only result above ca 55%, for any party, at Ârdal.

[Jens]

A little update on the Norwegian situation. 3 days ago Ap, SV and SP began negosiation to form a government, but it looks like it is going to take some time to get to an agreement, probably a couple of weeks

[Jens]

The negociations are now finished and the number of statsråder (ministers) each party will get has been announced, but not the names. Arbeiderpartiet will get 10 ministers, Sosialistisk Venstreparti 5 and Senterpartiet 4 ministers.
Acording to NRK the distribution will be like this:

Ap
Prime Minister (Jens Stoltenberg)
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Minister of Defence
Minister of Justice
Minister of Social and Work Affairs
Minister of Family, Integration and Equality
Minister of Health
Minister of Fishery

SV
Minister of Finance (perhaps Kristin Halvorsen)
Minister of Knowledge
Minister of Enviroment
Minister of Foreign Aid
Minister of Administration

SP
Minister of Agriculture (perhaps Terje Riis-Johansen)
Minister of Municipal and District Affairs (perhaps Åslaug Haga)
Minister of Trafic
Minister of Oil and Energy (perhaps Marit Arnstad)

[freek]

Minister of Administration

Where is the minister of Administration responsible for?

[Jens]

Minister of Administration

Where is the minister of Administration responsible for?

Basically adminstrating the public departments including pay and starff, information from the state - A more aqurate name would be ministry of Government Administration. It was renamed Ministry of Modernisation in 2004 but it looks like the new government is going to reestablish parts of the old Ministry of Labour and Government Administration

http://odin.dep.no/mod/english/news/bn.html

[Jens]

The names of the minsters are now official

Ap
Prime Minister - Jens Stoltenberg
Minister of Foreign Affairs - Jonas Gahr Støre
Minister of Defence - Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen
Minister of Justice - Knut Storberget
Minister of Family, Integration and Equality - Karita Bekkemellem
Minister of Health - Sylvia Brustad
Minister of Fishery - Helga Pedersen
Minister of Culture - Trond Giske
Mister of Industry - Odd Eriksen
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs - Bjarne Håkon Hanssen

SV
Minister of Finance - Kristin Halvorsen (SV leader)
Minister of Knowledge - Øystein Djupedal
Minister of Enviroment - Helen Bjørnøy
Minister of Foreign Aid - Erik Solheim
Minister of Administration - Heidi Grande Røys

SP
Minister of Agriculture - Terje Riis-Johansen
Minister of Municipal and District Affairs Åslaug Haga (SP leader)
Minister of Trafic - Liv Signe Navarsete
Minister of Oil and Energy - Odd Roger Enoksen

9 women 10 men; average age of 43,9 years

[minionofmidas]

I also like the Ministry of Knowledge.

[Jens]

I also like the Ministry of Knowledge.

Well you of all people should get the very direct translation try it in German
 

[minionofmidas]

I would think it's about Education.

[Jens]

I would think it's about Education.

partly, but also recearch. I didn't really bother to look up their own translation before but now I see that they translate is as Ministry of Education and Recearch http://odin.dep.no/ufd/english/bn.html