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Nationwide local elections for seats in municipality and county councils will be held throughout Norway on 12 September 2011.[1] The various municipalities may also decide to additionally hold elections on 11 September.[1] For most places this means that two elections, the municipal elections and the county elections run concurrently.
The election is the first to follow the attacksbyAnders Behring Breivik, a lone wolf who used to be a member of the Progress Party and had far-right political views. He also attacked a youth event in Utoya held by the incumbent Labour Party's Workers' Youth League (AUF).
It has been announced that electronic voting over the internet will be tried out in certain areas for the first time in Norway, with the ultimate goal of implementing full general availability for internet voting for the 2017 parliamentary elections.[2]
In 2008, Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa, the Minister of Local Government and Regional Development announced that she was considering lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 in some municipalities as a trial. Three municipalities had applied for this in the 2007 election, but were turned down.[3]
Parliament decided to give adolescents of age 16 and 17 the right to vote in selected municipalities. Of 143 applicants, 20 municipalities plus Longyearbyen on Svalbard were selected for the trial. The municipalities taking part in the trial are:[4]
The issue of how and when the campaign would be conducted was affected by the 2011 Norway attacks on 22 July, in which killed 76 people, most of them young supporters of the national Labour Party. On 24 July, the prime minister, the president of the Storting, and the parliamentary leaders of the political parties met for the first time to discuss rules for the political debates which would take place. Liv Signe Navarsete predicted that the election campaign would be considerably muted.[5] On 25 July, the parliamentary leaders[who?] agreed to delay[why?] the start of the campaign until mid-August and to cancel the school debates. The school elections were, however, not cancelled.[6]
One of the bigger issues for the local elections is a controversy about local hospitals in Møre og Romsdal, involving the cities Molde and Kristiansund which has hospitals today.[7] The current Red-Green government postponed the planned building of a new hospital in Molde, instead considering moving vital functions to it from Kristiansund, the local population in Molde saw the postponement as a broken promise, while the locals in Kristiansund wanted a common hospital instead due to the latter issue.[7] In early 2011, the Labour Party saw a shock opinion poll in Romsdal (which includes the city Molde) of a mere 5.8% support, which fell further in April to 1%.[7] The handling of the controversy by the party, and particularly its Minister of Health and Care Services, Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen, was seen as the reason for the fall.[7]
Polling Firm | Date | Source | Labour Party | Conservative Party | Progress Party | Centre Party | Christian Democratic Party | Socialist Left Party | Liberal Party | Others |
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Last Election | 2007-09 | [1] | 29.6% | 19.3% | 17.5% | 8.0% | 6.4% | 6.2% | 5.9% | 7.1% |
TNS Gallup | 2010-01 | [2] | 31.9% | 25.0% | 17.5% | 6.4% | 4.9% | 6.1% | 3.6% | 4.6% |
TNS Gallup | 2010-07 | [3] | 25.9% | 27.1% | 20.0% | 6.1% | 4.5% | 5.8% | 4.9% | 5.7% |
Norfakta | 2010-09 | [4] | 27.5% | 27.4% | 18.5% | 5.8% | 5.2% | 5.3% | 5.6% | 4.7% |
Norfakta | 2011-01 | [5] | 22.5% | 30.1% | 17.5% | 5.4% | 4.9% | 6.7% | 6.3% | 6.6% |
TNS Gallup | 2011-02 | [6] | 28.7% | 27.4% | 16.0% | 7.7% | 4.6% | 5.3% | 5.4% | 2.7% |
Respons | 2011-02 | [7] | 26.8% | 25.4% | 19.4% | 7.0% | 6.8% | 5.4% | 5.1% | 4.1% |
TNS Gallup | 2011-03 | [8] | 26.8% | 29.3% | 16.1% | 7.6% | 5.1% | 5.6% | 5.6% | 3.9% |
Respons | 2011-03 | [9] | 28.4% | 28.7% | 17.0% | 6.8% | 4.7% | 5.7% | 5.4% | 3.3% |
Sentio | 2011-03 | [10] | 28.9% | 23.7% | 17.7% | 6.9% | 6.1% | 4.2% | 6.0% | 6.5% |
TNS Gallup | 2011-04 | [11] | 28.9% | 27.0% | 15.3% | 6.4% | 4.9% | 6.5% | 5.6% | 5.4% |
InFact | 2011-04 | [12] | 28.5% | 23.5% | 18.9% | 6.8% | 5.0% | 5.5% | 5.8% | 5.9% |
Norstat | 2011-05 | [13] | 30.6% | 28.9% | 13.6% | 6.4% | 4.6% | 4.7% | 5.5% | 5.6% |
TNS Gallup | 2011-05 | [14] | 27.3% | 28.1% | 15.2% | 6.6% | 5.0% | 6.5% | 5.2% | 6.0% |
TNS Gallup | 2011-06 | [15] | 27.0% | 31.0% | 13.2% | 5.3% | 6.9% | 6.5% | 4.9% | 5.1% |
InFact | 2011-06 | [16] | 29.0% | 26.8% | 20.6% | 5.1% | 5.0% | 6.0% | 3.7% | 3.8% |
InFact | 2011-07 | [17] | 24.9% | 27.0% | 16.9% | 7.5% | 5.7% | 5.2% | 6.1% | 6.7% |
TNS Gallup* | 2011-07 | [18] | 35.4% | 23.3% | 13.6% | 6.2% | 4.7% | 6.0% | 5.9% | 4.9% |
Norstat | 2011-08 | [19] | 34.2% | 25.2% | 16.0% | 5.6% | 4.5% | 3.6% | 5.0% | 6.0% |
TNS Gallup | 2011-08 | [20] | 33.8% | 24.9% | 12.7% | 4.9% | 6.0% | 6.8% | 6.2% | 4.7% |
InFact | 2011-08 | [21] | 31.6% | 24.5% | 17.5% | 5.8% | 5.1% | 4.7% | 5.5% | 5.2% |
Synovate | 2011-08 | [22] | 34.0% | 26.0% | 16.0% | 4.9% | 6.1% | 4.7% | 3.9% | 4.5% |
InFact | 2011-08 | [23] | 32.4% | 25.0% | 12.9% | 5.7% | 7.2% | 6.3% | 5.3% | 5.2% |
TNS Gallup | 2011-08 | [24] | 30.9% | 25.0% | 14.0% | 6.5% | 6.5% | 4.0% | 6.3% | 6.8% |
TNS Gallup | 2011-09 | [25] | 31.3% | 27.3% | 12.8% | 5.9% | 6.0% | 4.5% | 6.9% | 4.5% |
Synovate | 2011-09 | [26] | 31.0% | 25.1% | 15.3% | 6.2% | 7.0% | 4.4% | 6.1% | 4.9% |
TNS Gallup | 2011-09 | [27] | 31.9% | 27.9% | 12.8% | 6.0% | 6.5% | 4.1% | 6.7% | 4.1% |
Respons | 2011-09 | [28] | 32.1% | 25.9% | 16.3% | 5.6% | 5.9% | 3.7% | 5.5% | 5.0% |
TNS Gallup | 2011-09 | [29] | 34.3% | 27.1% | 11.3% | 5.2% | 6.2% | 3.6% | 5.7% | 6.6% |
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