Fylkesting

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Fylkesting in Nord-Trøndelag (around 1930)

The Fylkesting is the respective Parliament a Norwegian County Council , the political unity of the provinces ( Fylke ). The MPs are directly elected every four years. There have been a total of eleven such parliaments since the elections in September 2019. In Fylke Oslo , which is identical to Oslo Municipality, the Bystyre Parliament serves as both a city council and a fylkesting.

history

The name Fylkesting has been used since 1919. Before that it was called Amtsting or Amtformannskap . From 1837, the parliament initially consisted only of the mayors of the non-urban municipalities of a province. After the inclusion of the cities in 1962, the parliaments were larger and the number of representatives was increasingly determined based on the population of the respective municipalities. However, the members of parliament were not elected directly by the population, but were sent by the municipalities.

In the 1970s there were major changes in the structure of parliament. For example, the office of Fylkesmann was separated from parliament. Since 1976 the election of the deputies has been direct. The provinces were also granted the right to levy their own taxes and run secondary schools and hospitals. Since 2002, however, the operation of the clinics is no longer in the hands of the provinces.

In the elections in September 2019, the number of parliaments was reduced from 18 to eleven. The reason for this is the local government reform, which merged some provinces on January 1, 2020. On January 1, 2018, the two Fylke Sør- and Nord-Trøndelag were merged into Trøndelag . The Fylkesting of Trøndelag was therefore temporarily formed from all elected representatives from the two previous parliaments until the elections in September 2019.

organization

Board and committees

The Fylkestinge without a parliamentary form of leadership ( parliamentarisk styreform ) elect a so-called Fylkesutvalg ( German : Fylkeswahl) with at least five members from their ranks . The Fylkesutvalg is primarily responsible for financial issues. The members of the Fylkesting can also leave urgent matters to the Fylkesutvalg. From the Fylkesutvalg the so-called Fylkesordfører and his deputy are elected by the parliament.

In parliaments with a parliamentary governance, the Fylkesråd (German: Fylkesrat) exists instead of a Fylkesutvalg . This has been possible since 1993, and in 1999 Nordland was the first to introduce a Fylkesråd. The provinces of Troms , Hedmark and Nord-Trøndelag followed in 2003 . The Fylkesrat serves as a kind of government of the province and the members each have responsibility for a certain area of ​​responsibility. The chairman of the council is the so-called Fylkesrådsleder . There is the possibility that the Fylkesordfører appoints the Fylkesrådsleder and this appoints the members of the council or that the parliament elects the Fylkesrat itself. who can nominate the members himself. Fylkesting can decide which areas of competence are handed over to the Fylkesråd.

Due to the amalgamation of some provinces, the new Fylker had to vote again after the election in September 2019 which system should be used. A Fylkesråd was also introduced in Viken .

There are different committees in fylkesting. The establishment of a control committee is compulsory for each province.

Areas of responsibility

The areas of responsibility of the parliaments have tended to be restricted in the course of time, so since 2002 the hospitals no longer belong to the responsibilities of the Fylkestinge. As a result, the budget that the parliaments had at their disposal was halved. Most of the budget is now spent on running the secondary schools.

Other tasks include local public transport , the construction and maintenance of provincial roads and the operation of libraries .

elections

regulate

The elections take place every four years in all provinces at the same time and are held in parallel with the local elections. As a result, the election campaign is carried out throughout Norway, which is why politicians who otherwise do not work at regional level are also heavily involved. In Oslo there is no separate Fylkestingswahl, because there the elected in the municipal parliament ( Bystyret ) also serves as Fylkesting.

All Norwegian citizens who will be at least 18 years old in the election year and have been resident in Norway at some point in their life are allowed to vote. Foreigners are also allowed to cast a vote if they have been living in Norway continuously for three years on election day. Citizens of Denmark , Iceland , Sweden and Finland are an exception : They can vote in Norway after just a few weeks.

Election results

Fylkestingswahl in Norway 2019
(in %)
 %
30th
20th
10
0
24.2
20.3
14.5
8.6
7.6
6.0
4.1
3.9
3.5
7.3
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 2015
 % p
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
-9.4
-3.1
+6.5
-1.7
+2.6
+2.0
-1.5
+1.7
-1.5
+4.4
Otherwise.

The last voting election took place on September 9, 2019. A large part of the votes falling under Other belong to the Folkeaksjonen nei til mer bompenger party . However, since this did not occur in all provinces, it is not listed separately in the official national statistics.

Results of the Fylkesting Elections in Norway
Political party Result 2007 2011 result 2015 result Results 2019
be right % Seats be right % +/- Seats +/- be right % +/- be right % +/-
Labor Party (Ap) 639.781 30.8 236 745.087 33.2 +2.4 273 +19 742.185 33.6 +0.4 604.885 24.2 −9.4
Conservatives (H) 389,437 18.8 121 620.504 27.6 +8.9 210 +74 517.422 23.4 −4.2 509.004 20.3 −3.1
Center Party (Sp) 162,660 7.8 73 141,514 6.3 −1.6 61 −12 176,270 8.0 +1.7 363.295 14.5 +6.5
Progressive Party (FrP) 384,982 18.5 140 263,915 11.8 −6.8 96 −54 227.068 10.3 −1.5 215,442 8.6 −1.7
Environment party The Greens (MDG) 12,379 0.6 0 28,259 1.3 +0.7 2 +2 111.192 5.0 +3.7 189,423 7.6 +2.5
Socialist Left Party (SV) 135,461 6.5 46 96,890 4.3 −2.2 34 −18 88,987 4.0 −0.3 151.233 6.0 +2.0
Christian People's Party (KrF) 139,584 6.7 54 129,932 5.8 −0.9 47 −9 123.111 5.6 −0.2 101,663 4.1 −1.5
Red (R) 42,920 2.1 8th 38,723 1.7 −0.3 7th −4 47,571 2.2 +0.4 96,892 3.9 +1.7
Liberals (V) 116,316 5.6 37 127.226 5.7 +0.1 46 +4 109,600 5.0 −0.7 87,793 3.5 −1.5
Others 53,089 2.6 13 52,689 2.3 −0.3 11 - 64,796 2.9 +0.6 182,368 7.3 +4.4
total 2,076,609 100.0 728 2,244,739 100.0 787 2,208,202 100.0 2,540,093 100.0
voter turnout 57.5 59.2 55.9 60.5
Swell:

size

In principle, each province can determine the number of members of a Fylkesting itself. However, the Norwegian Municipal Law prescribes a minimum size, which depends on the number of residents. There must be at least 19 MPs in each province and at least 43 in provinces with more than 300,000 inhabitants.

Fylke Number of
MPs
Agder 49
Domestic 57
Møre and Romsdal 47
North country 45
Oslo ( bystyre ) 59
Rogaland 47
Troms and Finnmark 57
Trøndelag 59
Vestfold and Telemark 61
Vestland 65
Viken 87

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Fylkesting - Trøndelag fylke. Retrieved September 29, 2019 (Norwegian Bokmål).
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  15. ^ Tall for hele Norge. In: valgresultat.no. Retrieved August 26, 2019 (Norwegian).
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