The Market towns of Sør-Trøndelag and Nord-Trøndelag counties ( no, Kjøpstedene i Sør-Trøndelag og Nord-Trøndelag fylker) 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

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

Sør-Trøndelag Sør-Trøndelag () was a 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. To the west is the No ...

county and

Levanger Levanger is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the district of Innherred. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Levanger. Some of the notable villages in the municipality include Alstadhaug, Ekne, ...

Nord-Trøndelag Nord-Trøndelag (; "North Trøndelag") was a county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. The county was established in 1804 when the old Trondhjems amt was divided into two: Nordre Trondhjems amt and S ...

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. 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 =

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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 =

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

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, ''Venstre'' *FV =

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, ''Frisinnede Venstre'' *H =

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, ''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