Turnout: 64.40%
About this election
The municipal elections of 9 September 2019 saw the Labour Party remain the largest party nationally with 24.78% and roughly 2,579 councillors, but it was a historically poor result — down some eight points on 2015 — while the Centre Party (Senterpartiet) surged to 14.40% and about 2,266 council seats. The Greens and the Socialist Left advanced in the cities, and a single-issue anti-toll-road movement won protest votes in several urban areas. The Conservatives slipped to 20.08% and the Progress Party to 8.23%. Turnout rose to 64.4%, the highest in a Norwegian local election since 1991.
Councillors for each municipality are elected by party-list proportional representation (modified Sainte-Laguë) for a four-year term; voters can give personal and cumulative votes to candidates, and council size depends on population. Long-term foreign residents may vote.
The election was widely summed up as "the periphery striking back": the Centre Party rode a rural revolt against the centralisation of public services, the forced merger of municipalities and counties, and rising road tolls (bompenger). The result was a clear mid-term rebuke to Erna Solberg's centre-right national government.
Norwegian Election Directorate (Valgdirektoratet) — valgresultat.no.