The Norwegian Directorate of Elections ( no, Valgdirektoratet) is a government agency subordinate the

Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development ( no, Kommunal- og regionaldepartementet) is a Norwegian ministry established in 1948. It is responsible for the housing and building, regional and rural policy, municipal an ...

. An election commission, it is responsible for coordinating and managing national and local elections in

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

. The operative aspects of the election are conducted by the

municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

. The agency is located in

Tønsberg Tønsberg , historically Tunsberg, is a city and municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, eastern Norway, located around south-southwest of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near its mouth onto the Skagerrak. The administrative c ...

, where it shares premises with the Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection. The agency was established on . The first election it oversaw were the jointly held

2017 Norwegian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 11 September 2017 to elect all 169 members of the unicameral Norwegian Parliament, the Storting. The non-socialist parties retained a reduced majority of 88 seats, allowing Prime Minister Erna Solbe ...

and the 2017 Norwegian Sámi parliamentary election on 11 September 2017.

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Election commissions Elections in Norway Organisations based in Tønsberg 2016 establishments in Norway Government agencies established in 2016 {{Norway-gov-stub