Turnout: 54.80%
About this election
Norway's county council elections (fylkestingsvalg) of 14 September 2015 were held on the same day as the municipal elections. The Labour Party finished first with 33.89% of the vote and 257 of the 718 county seats, ahead of the Conservatives (22.01%, 148 seats) and the Progress Party (11.01%, 79). The Centre Party (9.24%) again won more seats (80) than its vote share suggested, reflecting its rural strength. Turnout was 54.8% — lower than the municipal figure, partly because the capital, Oslo, is simultaneously a municipality and a county and so holds no separate county election.
County councillors are elected every four years by party-list proportional representation (modified Sainte-Laguë) within each county (fylke). At the time there were 19 counties (Oslo excluded from the county tier). The counties are responsible for regional public transport, county roads, upper-secondary schools and public dental services.
The county vote mirrored the municipal result: the left gained ground two years into Erna Solberg's Conservative-led national government, against the backdrop of the refugee crisis.
Norwegian Election Directorate (Valgdirektoratet) — valgresultat.no.