1983 Norwegian local elections

Country-wide local elections for seats in municipality and county councils were held throughout Norway in 1983. For most places this meant that two elections, the municipal elections and the county elections ran concurrently.

Results

Municipal elections

Results of the 1983 municipal elections.^[1]

Party		Votes	%
	Labour Party	793,903	38.29
	Conservative Party	535,500	25.83
	Christian Democratic Party	176,659	8.52
	Centre Party	159,946	7.71
	Progress Party	111,925	5.40
	Socialist Left Party	107,959	5.21
	Liberal Party	93,623	4.52
	Red Electoral Alliance	23,768	1.15
	Liberal People's Party	11,966	0.58
	Communist Party	4,319	0.21
	Others	53,934	2.60
Total		2,073,502	100.00

County elections

Results of the 1983 county elections.^[1]

Party		Votes	%
	Labour Party		38.9
	Conservative Party		26.4
	Christian Democratic Party		8.8
	Centre Party		7.2
	Progress Party		6.3
	Socialist Left Party		5.3
	Liberal Party		4.4
	Red Electoral Alliance		1.2
	Liberal People's Party		0.7
	Communist Party		0.4
	Others		0.3
Total