The Market towns of Sør-Trøndelag and Nord-Trøndelag counties () 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 rura ...

s () of

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Sør-Trøndelag Sør-Trøndelag (; ) was a Counties of Norway, county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Nord-Trøndelag () county as well as the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, and Hedmark. ...

county and

Levanger Levanger may refer to: Places * Levanger Municipality, a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway * Levanger (town), a town within Levanger Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway * Levanger landsogn, a former municipality (1856–1962) in Trø ...

Nord-Trøndelag Nord-Trøndelag (; "North Trøndelag") was a counties of Norway, county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Sør-Trøndelag ("South Trøndelag") county as well as the county of Nordl ...

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 Sør-Trøndelag and Nord-Trøndelag counties'': ''Legend:'' *NKP = Communist Party, ''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 =

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

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, ''Venstre'' *FV =

Liberal Left Party The Free-minded Liberal Party () 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 several short-lived governme ...

, ''Frisinnede Venstre'' *H = Conservative Party, ''Høyre''

References

Parliamentary representatives
- Norwegian Parliament official site {{DEFAULTSORT:Market towns of Sor-Trondelag and Nord-Trondelag counties Sor-Trondelag and Nord-Trondelag 1921 establishments in Norway 1953 disestablishments in Norway