The Market towns of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark ( no, Kjøpstedene i Nordland, Troms og Finnmark) was an electoral district for
parliamentary
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elections in Norway. It comprised the
market town
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s ( no, kjøpsteder) of
Bodø and
Narvik in
Nordland county,
Tromsø
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Tromsø lies in Northern Norway. The municipality is the ...
in
Troms
Troms (; se, Romsa; fkv, Tromssa; fi, Tromssa) is a former county in northern Norway. On 1 January 2020 it was merged with the neighboring Finnmark county to create the new Troms og Finnmark county. This merger is expected to be reversed by t ...
county and
Hammerfest
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,
Vadsø
Vadsø (; sme, Čáhcesuolu; fkv, Vesisaari) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark County, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Vadsø, which was the administrative centre of the former Finnmark county. O ...
and
Vardø
( fi, Vuoreija, fkv, Vuorea, se, Várggát) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county in the extreme northeastern part of Norway. Vardø is the easternmost town in Norway, more to the east than Saint Petersburg or Istanbul. The administr ...
in
Finnmark
Finnmark (; se, Finnmárku ; fkv, Finmarku; fi, Ruija ; russian: Финнмарк) was a county in the northern part of Norway, and it is scheduled to become a county again in 2024.
On 1 January 2020, Finnmark was merged with the neighbouri ...
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.
Representatives
The following representatives were elected from the ''Market towns of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark'':
''Legend:''
*NKP =
Communist Party
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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 =
Christian Democratic Party
__NOTOC__
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, ''Kristelig Folkeparti''
*B =
Farmers' Party, ''Bondepartiet''
*V =
Liberal Party
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, ''Venstre''
*FV =
Liberal Left Party, ''Frisinnede Venstre''
*H =
Conservative Party, ''Høyre''
References
Parliamentary representatives- Norwegian Parliament official site
{{Constituencies of Norway
Nordland, Troms and Finnmark
1921 establishments in Norway
1953 disestablishments in Norway