The Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland counties ( no, Kjøpstedene i Vest-Agder og Rogaland fylker) was an electoral district for
parliamentary
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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
Flekkefjord
is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Lister. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Flekkefjord. The villages of Sira, Gyland, Rasvåg, Kirkehavn, and Åna-Sira are lo ...
,
Kristiansand
Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, following the incorporation ...
and
Mandal
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in
Vest-Agder
Vest-Agder (; "West Agder") was one of 18 counties (''fylker'') in Norway up until 1 January 2020, when it was merged with Aust-Agder to form Agder county. In 2016, there were 182,701 inhabitants, around 3.5% of the total population of Norway. I ...
county and
Haugesund
Haugesund () is a municipality on the North Sea in Rogaland county, Norway. While the population is greater in the neighboring Karmøy municipality, the main commercial and economic centre of the Haugaland region in northern Rogaland and southern ...
and
Stavanger
Stavanger (, , American English, US usually , ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the fourth largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the a ...
in
Rogaland
Rogaland () is a Counties of Norway, county in Western Norway, bordering the North Sea to the west and the counties of Vestland to the north, Vestfold og Telemark to the east and Agder to the east and southeast. In 2020, it had a population of 47 ...
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 Vest-Agder and Rogaland counties'':
''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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__TOC__ Active liberal parties
This is a li ...
, ''Venstre''
*FV =
Liberal Left Party
The Free-minded Liberal Party ( no, Frisinnede Venstre) 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 severa ...
, ''Frisinnede Venstre''
*H =
Conservative Party
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, ''Høyre''
References
Parliamentary representatives- Norwegian Parliament official site
{{Constituencies of Norway
Vest-Agder and Rogaland
1921 establishments in Norway
1953 disestablishments in Norway