Buskerud County Municipality ( no, Buskerud fylkeskommune) was the regional governing administration of the old

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 Ha ...

county in

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. The county municipality was established in its most recent form 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 Buskerud was merged with the neighboring counties of

Akershus Akershus () is a traditional region and current electoral district in Norway, with Oslo as its main city and traditional capital. It is named after the Akershus Fortress in Oslo. From the middle ages to 1919, Akershus was a fief and main cou ...

and

Østfold Østfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in southeastern Norway. It borders Akershus and southwestern Sweden ( Västra Götaland County and Värmland), while Buskerud and Vestfold are on the other s ...

, creating the new

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county which is led by the

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. The administrative seat is located in

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and the county mayor was

Roger Ryberg Roger Ryberg (born 16 April 1952 in Kirkenes) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He has held the position as county mayor of Viken since 2020. He previously served as county mayor of Buskerud from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2015 to ...

. The main responsibilities of the county municipality included the running of the 13 upper secondary schools. It managed all the county roadways,

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, dental care,

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, and

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sites in the county. Public transport was managed through

Vestviken Kollektivtrafikk Vestfold Kollektivtrafikk (VKT) (lit. ''Vestfold Public Transport'') is the public transport administration for the county of Vestfold in Norway. VKT is responsible for planning, organising and marketing bus transport in the county, but does not ...

County government

The Buskerud

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( no, Fylkestinget) was made up of 43 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 was divided into standing committees and an executive board () which met considerably more often. Both the council and executive board were led by the County Mayor () who held the executive powers of the county. The final county mayor was

County mayors

*1976-1979: Arvid Berglind ( Labour Party) *1980-1983:

Arild Hiim Arild Hiim (born 17 August 1945 in Ringerike) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Buskerud in 1989, and was re-elected on one occasion. He had previously served in the position of ...

(

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) *1984-1987:

Åse Klundelien Åse Klundelien (born 8 January 1946) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She was born in Kongsberg. She attended teacher's college from 1963 to 1967, and worked as a teacher. She was a member of Kongsberg city council from 1967 to 1 ...

( Labour Party) *1988-1991:

Hans Erik Riwen Hans Erik Riwen (born 30 July 1935 – 28 March 2010) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He was born in Fredrikstad. He was a member of the Norwegian Young Conservatives central board from 1963 to 1967, and then became a d ...

(

) *1992-1999: Per Ulriksen ( Labour Party) *1999-2007: Tor Ottar Karlsen ( Labour Party) *2007-2011:

( Labour Party) *2011-2015: Morten Eriksrød (

) *2015-2019:

( Labour Party)

County council

The

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breakdown of the council is as follows:

References

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