Now, I didn't actually get into the local parliament, since we did a pretty sucky local election campaign(the liberals did much better on average, and we didn't really make much trouble because we like the current mayor). Not helped by the Labour party being historically very strong around here doing their best election ever, getting 58% of the votes.party/total votes/percentage/difference since last election/ seats
A (labour) 2158 57.9 +13.3 16 (+4)
SV(socialistic left) 173 4.6 -2.2 1 (-1)
SP(central party/(farmers party)) 289 7.8 -12.3 2 (-3)
KRF(christian people's party) 163 4.4 +0.9 1 (+0)
V(liberal ) 136 3.7 -1.0 1 (+0)
H(right/conservative party) 382 10.3 +4.5 3 (+1)
FRP(progress party/ populist-rightwing phobia-fiddle party) 425 11.4 -3.4 3 (-1)
But I did run around for a few votes, and I got 12 personal votes and 7 punted votes, which put me on 2nd place. Since we only got one seat I will be a backup in case of sickness. But there will be different sub-groups that have people from outside those that got one of the seats, so its very likely I'll be placed in one of those. Thinking I'll try to go for the school and culture group if i can, it seemed more interesting than the rest, although getting into the planning and economy group would have been cool, it is the most sought after position and is mostly taken by those elected.
Anyway, some national numbers:
from political left to right (might argue that the Christians are more right-wing than the liberal but meh):
- Rødt/Red(communists) 1.5% (-0.3)
- SV (Socialistic left) 4.1% (-2.2)
- Ap (Labour) 31.7% (+2.3)
- SP (Central party) 6.8% (-1.5)
- KrF (Christian party) 5.6% (-0.9)
- V (Liberal) 6.3% (+0.1)
- H (conservative) 28.0% (+8.9)
- FrP (populist) 11.4% (-6.8)
Not that these matter much since they are the average over the different counties and not a government election. But they do tell us a few things though. Labour was expected to do extremely well given sympathy votes from the Utøya massacre, but a 2.3% increase is not that much(take that Rush Limbaugh or whatever dissing the victims as a fascist youth-camp).
The progress party got hurt big-time because they couldnt play their fear-fiddle on foreigners and Muslims. There was a common agreement that the campaign was to be nice and not filled with hateful speeches, which neutered them.
The big winner of this election was the conservatives that are not almost just as big as the labour party, a clear sign that people are feeling fatigue from the 6-year old central-left government. Labour's allies, Central and Socialistic left, have been hit with the abandonment-stick.
Another victory is the Liberal party ousting the Christian party in size, may their followers breed slower than ours
Anyway, this is probably a uninteresting thread for most of you guys out there. But I figured I'd dump some numbers and announce my ascension into local politics. Not that I expect much to come out of it, at least I'm taking some small steps out in that direction.
Edited by duke_Qa, 15 September 2011 - 08:21 PM.