Turnout: 57.30%
About this election
The county council elections of 11 September 2023 followed the same rightward swing as the municipal vote held the same day. The Conservative Party (Høyre) finished first with 25.51% and 163 of the 664 county seats, ahead of the Labour Party (21.81%, 153) and the Progress Party (12.46%, 87). The Centre Party fell back to 8.63%. Turnout was 57.3%.
County councillors are elected for four years by party-list proportional representation (modified Sainte-Laguë). This election was held just as several of the county mergers imposed in 2020 were being unwound: from 1 January 2024 a number of counties were re-established as separate units, so the 2023 vote chose the councils of these soon-to-be-divided counties. Oslo, both a municipality and a county, held no separate county election.
As with the municipal contest, the result was a mid-term rebuke to Jonas Gahr Støre's red-green national government over the cost-of-living crisis and high electricity prices, and a vindication of the Centre Party's long campaign to reverse the 2020 regional reform.
Norwegian Election Directorate (Valgdirektoratet) — valgresultat.no.