The Market towns of Hedmark and Oppland counties ( no, Kjøpstedene i Hedmark og Oppland 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

Hamar Hamar is a town in Hamar Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. Hamar is the administrative centre of Hamar Municipality. It is located in the traditional region of Hedmarken. The town is located on the shores of Mjøsa, Norway's largest lake ...

and

Kongsvinger Kongsvinger () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Glåmdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kongsvinger. Other settlements in the municipality include Aus ...

Hedmark Hedmark () was a county in Norway before 1 January 2020, bordering Trøndelag to the north, Oppland to the west, Akershus to the south, and Sweden to the east. The county administration is in Hamar. Hedmark and Oppland counties were merged int ...

county and Lillehammer and Gjøvik in

Oppland Oppland is a former county in Norway which existed from 1781 until its dissolution on 1 January 2020. The old Oppland county bordered the counties of Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. The c ...

county. The district was established ahead of the 1921 Norwegian parliamentary election 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. R ...

. Instead, each county became one electoral district, and for election purposes the towns were integrated into their respective counties. The cities except for Kongsvinger are known as the Mjøsa Cities, and share much history. Also as an electoral district, the cities had been tied together. Before single-member constituencies were introduced in 1905, there were two constituencies: ''Kristiania, Hønefoss og Kongsvinger'' with three members in the 1903 election and ''Hamar, Lillehammer og Gjøvik'' with one member. After 1905 the cities were grouped together as ''Lillehammer, Hamar, Gjøvik og Kongsvinger''; in other words identical to the electoral district established after 1919. The first four elections in ''Lillehammer, Hamar, Gjøvik og Kongsvinger'' were won by

Axel Thallaug Axel Andreas Thallaug (15 April 1866 – 17 March 1938) was a Norwegian lawyer and politician for the Conservative Party from Lillehammer. He received his law degree in 1889. He was a local politician from 1894 to 1938, and a member of the Parli ...

. In 1913 Thallaug proposed splitting the electoral district in two, giving one member to ''Hamar og Kongsvinger'' and one to ''Lillehammer og Gjøvik''. The proposal was supported by decision in the executive committees of Lillehammer and Kongsvinger city councils. In 1914 it reached the Standing Committee on Constitutional Affairs, where the representatives voted 5 for and 2 against (they also voted to divide ''Larvik og Sandefjord''). It did not come to fruition.

Representatives

The following representatives were elected from the ''Market towns of Hedmark and Oppland counties'':Parliamentary representatives
- Norwegian Parliament official site ''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 = Liberal Left Party, ''Frisinnede Venstre'' *H = Conservative Party, ''Høyre''

References

{{Constituencies of Norway Hedmark and Oppland 1921 establishments in Norway 1953 disestablishments in Norway