In Norway, elections are held every second year, alternating between elections for the Parliament and local elections, both of which are held on a 4-yearly basis.
The last election was the 2005parliamentaryelection, on 12 September this year.
In recent elections a vote in the northernmost county Finnmark has counted approximately twice a vote in the capital Oslo or the surrounding county Akershus.
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Parliamentaryelections were held in Norway on 12 September 2005.
The red-green coalition was the winner of the election and formed a majority government, with Jens Stoltenberg as prime minister, on October 17, 2005, as soon as a national budget for 2006 had been proposed by the old government.
This disparity is caused by the Norwegian electoral system, which assigns seats according to a formula favouring the geographically larger counties with small populations that are located proportionally further from the the capital, and disadvantages the more dense populated counties.
In the ordinary course of parliamentary business, I expect it is the Appropriation Bill that would now be before the House but because the main Party in the Dáil considered it politically expedient to prolong and hold up the various Estimates we now have the Vote on Account.
The Norwegian Government has nationalised football pools and without going into any details I simply [473] want to point out that, according to this article in yesterday's Times, a very large amount of money has been raised which has been devoted to the very type of scientific research which I am advocating this afternoon.
Norwegian and Dutch scientists at this Institute are now considering the practical problems involved in building a reactor for propelling a merchant ship.
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January 31, February 1 - North Sea Flood of 1953The North Sea Flood of 1953 and associated storm was a major natural disaster which affected the coastlines of the United Kingdom and The Netherlands on the night of 31 January 1953 – 1 February 1953.
It began with the assault on the Moncada base on the 26 July 1953, and ended on 1 January 1959, when Batista was driven from the country and the cities Santa Clara and Santiago de Cuba were seized by sections of the people's army, led by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, respectively.
The nearby island territories of Svalbard and Jan Mayen are under Norwegian sovereignty and are considered as part of Norway as a kingdom, while Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean and Peter I Isla...
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The norwegianlabour party (det norske arbeiderparti, dna or arbeiderpartiet, ap) is a social democratic political party in norway....
Jan simonsen (born march 3 1953 in stavanger, norway) is a member of the norwegian parliament (stortinget)....
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The Danish and Norwegian clubs were not too pleased with the prospect of being represented by a Swedish newspaper only and therefore launched their own organ, Social-Demokraten, published in the common Dano-Norwegian literary language, in the autumn of 1911 {63}
As an evolutionary parliamentary social democrat, Mengshoel was against communist revolutions in America, anarchist bomb attacks, and industrial sabotage, but at the same time deplored that communists, anarchists, and syndicalists would not cooperate with the Socialist party in elections.
In the first issue of Folkets Røst, Mengshoel editorialized that those Norwegians who did not look upon themselves as belonging to the people were too few to bother with and added that he trusted that his new organ would not founder on the rocks of insidious intrigues inspired by unjust suspicion and petty intolerance.
The son of Norwegian immigrants, Rasmus Bjørn Anderson was born in the town of Albion, Dane County, Wisconsin, on January 12, 1846.
The Luther College authorities, in their report to the next annual meeting of the Norwegian Synod, offered pious thanks to the Lord because they were rid of the noxious weed in their school.
He interpreted the university to Norwegian Americans, translated papers by Presidents Chadbourne and Bascom into the Norwegian language, gave lectures about the university, and urged immigrants to send their sons and daughters there instead of to the church schools.
The return of Prime Minister L.S. St. Laurent's government in the August 10, 1953 general election and the reappointment of L.B. Pearson to the External Affairs portfolio ensured the continuation of the close working relationship that had developed in the preceding years between the Department of External Affairs and its political masters.
In early 1953 Ottawa agreed to permit the building of two experimental radar stations on Canadian territory to test the feasibility of an early warning radar system in the far north.
Studies carried out in the United States that summer recommended the construction of an early warning line along the 55th parallel to be followed by a distant early warning system when required.
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It presages an escalation of the conflict with the Palestinians and threatens instability and renewed warfare in the region.
Sharon was in command of a force that in 1953 raided the West Bank village of Qibya, killing more than 60 men, women and children and dynamiting dozens of houses, a school and a mosque.
If he does not form a new administration within 45 days, parliamentaryelections must be held, which would of necessity become a focus for the political tensions wracking Israel.
At a time when the threat of nuclear arms is again increasing, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to underline that this threat must be met through the broadest possible international cooperation.
In December 1953, he gave his famous “Atoms for Peace” speech at the United Nations.
With the awards of 1975, 1985 and 1995 in mind, it is difficult for the Committee to deny the charge.
General elections were held for all the seats in Parliament following premature dissolution of this body on 9 February 2004.
Most of the voteless were among the country's 3.2 million Tamils, who are predominant in the north and east of the country, where most of the fighting raged.
Since parliamentary inviolability does not cover judicial proceedings in general, it does not cover judicial proceedings instituted against MPs before their election.
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The Danish ParliamentaryElection of 2001 held on November 20, 2001 saw a dramatic change in the political composition of the Danish parliament or Folketing The folketing, or folketinget, is the name of the national parliament of denmark....
Anders Fogh Rasmussen Anders fogh rasmussen (born 26 january, 1953) is the current prime minister of denmark....
[For more, click on this link], as the head of the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I After the 2001 danish parliamentaryelection, anders fogh rasmussen was able form a government coalition of his own liberal party and the conservative peoples party (denmark)conservative peoples party, with...
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1953 - Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1953 - John F. Kennedy marries Jackie Bouvier.
2003 - During the Ontario general election, 2003, the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party issued a press release that called the leader of the Ontario Liberal Party an "evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet".
Syrian parliamentary officials told el-Hayat that the 130 members of the Parliament are backing a bill to impose commercial sanctions on US economic interests in Syria in response to sanctions imposed on Damascus by the White House.
Americans, worried about potential violence during Afghan elections this fall, wanted Canadians to act as a rapid reaction force and stay past their scheduled departure this summer.
The group of lawyers plans to be at the ready to assist voters if any problems crop up in the coming 'elections.' A group of lawyers plans to fan out across the state for Florida's upcoming 'elections,' intent on helping any citizens who have problems at the polls.
Since the 1950s (1953 Refugee Relief Act and 1954 amendments), refugee policy is conceived as a separate category from that of immigration.
Jack, and confirmed by Dag Fjaervoll (Norway) on the basis of the Norwegian experience with the Saami people, it is only when aboriginal people are no longer ashamed of themselves that things start changing.
Explaining the reasons for New York's police performance, Commissioner McGuire traced it to a "cultural change" at the top which began after the election of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani under Police Commissioner William J. Bratton and was pursued by his successor, current Police Commissioner Howard Safir.