The Market towns of Buskerud county ( no, Kjøpstedene i Buskerud fylke) was an electoral district for

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elections in Norway. It comprised the

market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rural ...

s ( no, kjøpsteder) of

Drammen Drammen () is a city and municipality in Viken (county), Viken, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the south-eastern and most populated part of Norway. Drammen municipality also includes smaller towns and village ...

Hønefoss __NOTOC__ Hønefoss is a town and the administrative center of the municipality of Ringerike in Buskerud county, Norway. Hønefoss is an industrial center of inner Østlandet, containing several factories and other industry. As of 1 January 2008, ...

and

Kongsberg Kongsberg () is a historical mining town and municipality in Buskerud, Viken county, Norway. The city is located on the river Numedalslågen at the entrance to the valley of Numedal. Kongsberg has been a centre of silver mining, arms production ...

Buskerud Buskerud () is a former county and a current electoral district in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark and Vestfold. The region extends from the Oslofjord and Drammensfjorden in the southeast to Hardan ...

county. The district was established ahead of the

1921 Norwegian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 24 October 1921.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1438 This was the first election to use proportional representation, which replaced previous two-roun ...

following the change from single member constituencies to plural member constituencies in 1919. Following changes in the national policy on market towns in 1952, these electoral districts were abolished ahead of the

1953 Norwegian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 12 October 1953.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1438 The result was a victory for the Labour Party, which won 77 of the 150 seats in the Storting. ...

. Instead, each county became one electoral district, and for election purposes the towns were integrated into their respective counties.

Representatives

The following representatives were elected from the ''Market towns of Buskerud county'': ''Legend:'' *NKP =

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, ''Norges Kommunistiske Parti'' *A = Labour Party, ''Det Norske Arbeiderparti'' *SDA = Social Democratic Labour Party, ''Norges Socialdemokratiske Arbeiderparti'' *RF = Radical People's Party (Worker Democrats), ''Det Radikale Folkeparti (Arbeiderdemokratene)'' *KrF =

Christian Democratic Party __NOTOC__ Christian democratic parties are political parties that seek to apply Christian principles to public policy. The underlying Christian democracy movement emerged in 19th-century Europe, largely under the influence of Catholic social tea ...

, ''Kristelig Folkeparti'' *B = Farmers' Party, ''Bondepartiet'' *V =

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, ''Venstre'' *FV =

Liberal Left Party The Free-minded Liberal Party ( no, Frisinnede Venstre) was a political party in Norway founded in 1909 by the conservative-liberal faction of the Liberal Party. The party cooperated closely with the Conservative Party and participated in severa ...

, ''Frisinnede Venstre'' *H =

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, ''Høyre''

References

Parliamentary representatives
- Norwegian Parliament official site {{Constituencies of Norway

1921 establishments in Norway 1953 disestablishments in Norway