The county lists for the Norwegian parliamentary election, 2001 was a group of nine political lists, or parties, which under different names ran for the 2001 parliamentary election in Norway. Common for all the parties, was that all of them were made up of people who had been excluded or voluntarily left the Progress Party after the turmoil that erupted in the party around 2000/2001. The most noticeable of them were Member of Parliament

Vidar Kleppe Vidar Sveinung Kleppe (born 16 September 1963) is a Norwegian politician. He was a member of parliament and deputy leader of the Progress Party until he was suspended and left the party in 2001. He was the leader of the Democrats party from 200 ...

, who was the top candidate of the Southern Norway List in

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, as well as being present on the lists of the Hedmark List and the Hordaland List. Kleppe was noticeably also joined by Elvis impersonator

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, and IK Start football legend Karsten Johannessen in Vest-Agder. Other Progress Party MPs on the county lists were

Dag Danielsen Dag Danielsen (born 8 April 1955, in Ullensaker) is a Norwegian politician. He was a Storting representative between 1997–2001, representing Fremskrittspartiet. In 2001, he was involved in arguments with the party leadership, and left the party ...

and

Fridtjof Frank Gundersen Fridtjof Frank Gundersen (29 October 1934 – 11 November 2011) was a Norwegian professor of jurisprudence and politician. He worked as a lector at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo from 1965 to 1975. In 1975 he became professor of jur ...

, the first and second candidates for the Oslo List, and Jørn Stang who was the top candidate of the Østfold List. The lists did not campaign as a common party, and even though they had much in common they were formally separate entities. The most successful of the lists was the Southern Norway List of Vidar Kleppe, but neither he managed to secure a renewed place in the Norwegian parliament. Results for the lists in their respective counties: Together, the lists received 4.026 votes, accounting for 0,16% of the votes nationwide. In 2002, the party the Democrats were founded with Vidar Kleppe as the chairman. Many of the members of the county lists joined the new party, though not all. The top candidate for the Troms List, Karl-Olav Slorafoss, was for instance later active in the

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{{reflist, 2 Defunct political parties in Norway Political parties established in 2001