Vest-Agder County Municipality ( no, Vest-Agder fylkeskommune) was the regional governing administration of the old

Vest-Agder Vest-Agder (; "West Agder") was one of 18 counties (''fylker'') in Norway up until 1 January 2020, when it was merged with Aust-Agder to form Agder county. In 2016, there were 182,701 inhabitants, around 3.5% of the total population of Norway. I ...

county in

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. The county municipality was established on 1 January 1976 when the law was changed to allow elected county councils in Norway. The county municipality was dissolved on 1 January 2020, when Vest-Agder was merged with the neighboring Aust-Agder county, creating the new

Agder Agder is a county (''fylke'') and traditional region in the southern part of Norway. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder counties were merged. Since the early 1900s, the term Sørlandet ("south ...

county which is led by the Agder County Municipality. The main responsibilities of the county municipality included the running of 11 upper secondary schools as well as administering the over of county roadways,

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system, 13 public dental clinics, nature/wildlife management, and

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/ cultural heritage preservation. The budget for 2016 was approximately . The administrative seat was located in the town of

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, following the incorporati ...

. Ann-Kristin Olsen was the last County Governor of Vest-Agder. The Governor was the representative of the King and Government of Norway in the county, functioning as the connection between the state and the municipalities.

County government

The Vest-Agder

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( no, Fylkestinget) is made up of 35 representatives that were elected every four years. The council essentially acted as a

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or legislative body for the county and it met several times each year. The council is divided into standing committees and an executive board () which meet considerably more often. Both the council and executive board are led by the County Mayor () who held the executive powers of the county. From 2011 until its dissolution in 2020, it was Terje Damman of the Conservative Party and the Deputy County Mayor was Tore Askildsen of the

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County council

The

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breakdown of the council is as follows:

References

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