Haugesund - Local Government

Local Government

Haugesund has a mayor and a city council with 49 members. The mayor since 2001 is Petter Steen jr. of the Conservative Party. The distribution of council seats is summarized in the following table:


Haugesund Kommunestyre 2011 - 2015
Party Name Name in Norwegian Number of
representatives
Labour Party Det Norske Arbeiderpartiet 14
Progress Party Fremskrittspartiet 6
Conservative Party Høyre 19
Christian Democratic Party Kristelig Folkeparti 3
Pensioners' Party Pensjonistpartiet 3
Socialist Left Party Sosialistisk Venstreparti 1
Liberal Party Venstre 3
Total: 49


Read more about this topic:  Haugesund

Other articles related to "local government, government, local":

Washington Township, Bergen County, New Jersey - Government - Local Government
... of Washington is governed under the Faulkner Act (Mayor-Council) system of municipal government by a mayor and a five-member Township Council ...
Burlington Township, New Jersey - Government - Local Government
... Act (Mayor-Council) Plan E form of municipal government and consists of a mayor and a seven-member Township Council ...
Local Government - South America - Uruguay
... which were subordinate to the central government and responsible for local administration ... They also had the power to establish unpaid five-member local boards or town councils in municipalities other than the departmental capital if the population was large enough to ... duties, carrying out resolutions made by the local board (whose members were appointed on the basis of proportional representation of the political parties) ...

Famous quotes containing the words government and/or local:

    America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them help—because the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won.
    Martha Gellhorn (b. 1908)

    The local is a shabby thing. There’s nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.
    Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)