Turnout: 62.20%
About this election
The municipal elections of 11 September 2023 delivered a clear victory for the Conservative Party (Høyre), which finished first nationally with 25.86% of the vote — its best local result in decades and the first time the party had topped a nationwide Norwegian election since 1924. Labour fell to 21.59% (though it still won the second-largest number of councillors, about 2,263, behind the Conservatives' roughly 1,851), the Progress Party recovered to 11.39%, and the Centre Party dropped back to 8.16%. Turnout was 62.2%. The major cities — Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and Stavanger among them — swung to centre-right leadership.
Municipal councils are elected every four years by party-list proportional representation (modified Sainte-Laguë); voters may give personal and cumulative votes, and council size reflects population. Foreign nationals resident for at least three years may vote.
The election was a mid-term verdict on Jonas Gahr Støre's red-green national government, and the swing to the right was driven by the cost-of-living crisis, soaring electricity prices and discontent over the wealth tax. The Centre Party, the chief winner of 2019, was among the heaviest losers.
Norwegian Election Directorate (Valgdirektoratet) — valgresultat.no.