Turnout: 59.50%
About this election
The county council elections of 9 September 2019 were dominated by the rise of the Centre Party (Senterpartiet), which surged to 16.63% and 105 seats — third place nationally — on the back of fierce rural opposition to the government's regional reform. The Labour Party remained largest with 24.89% and 148 of the 574 county seats, ahead of the Conservatives (19.48%, 107) and the Progress Party (9.18%, 55). Turnout was 59.5%.
County councillors are elected by party-list proportional representation (modified Sainte-Laguë) for a four-year term. This election filled the councils of the reorganised counties created by the controversial 2020 regional reform, which merged Norway's 19 counties into 11 from 1 January 2020 — which is why the total number of county seats fell from 718 in 2015 to 574. As ever, Oslo held no separate county election.
The forced merger of counties (and municipalities) was deeply unpopular in many regions, and the Centre Party campaigned explicitly to reverse it. Together with toll-road protests and worries about the centralisation of services, this fuelled a "periphery strikes back" result that punished Erna Solberg's centre-right government.
Norwegian Election Directorate (Valgdirektoratet) — valgresultat.no.