Hundvåg
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Hundvåg is an island and borough of the city of Stavanger
Stavanger
Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...

, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

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In addition to the island Hundvåg, other islands are Sølyst
Sølyst
Sølyst is an island located in the neighborhood Buøy in the borough Hundvåg in Stavanger, Norway.It is connected to mainland Stavanger via the island Grasholmen and Stavanger City Bridge....

, Grasholmen
Grasholmen
Grasholmen is an island located in the neighborhood Buøy in the borough Hundvåg in Stavanger, Norway.It is connected to mainland Stavanger via the Stavanger City Bridge....

, Engøy
Engøy
Engøy is an island located in the neighborhood Buøy in the borough Hundvåg in Stavanger, Norway.It is connected to mainland Stavanger via the Engøy Bridge, which connects Engøy to the islands Sølyst and Grasholmen, and Stavanger City Bridge which connects Sølyst and Grasholmen to the mainland....

, Buøy
Buøy
Buøy is an island and neighborhood in the borough Hundvåg in Stavanger, Norway.The neighborhood has a population of 1,792, distributed on an area of 1,19 km²...

, Bjørnøy
Bjørnøya, Stavanger
Bjørnøya, also known as Bjørnøy, is a small island connected by bridge to Hundvåg, an island and borough of the city of Stavanger, Norway. It is also connected to the islands of Roaldsøy and Ormøy....

, Roaldsøy and Ormøy. These islands are connected to mainland Stavanger by the Stavanger City Bridge
Stavanger City Bridge
Stavanger City Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge with one tower that crosses Strømsteinsundet from the centre of Stavanger, Norway to Grasholmen and Sølyst in the borough Hundvåg....

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Neighbourhoods

Although the borders of neighbourhoods do not correspond exactly to the borough borders, Hundvåg roughly consists of the following neighbourhoods (delområder): Buøy
Buøy
Buøy is an island and neighborhood in the borough Hundvåg in Stavanger, Norway.The neighborhood has a population of 1,792, distributed on an area of 1,19 km²...

 and Hundvåg.

Politics

Hundvåg has a borough council (bydelsutvalg). The council consists of 11 members, with the following party allegiance:
  • 3 from the Labour Party
    Norwegian Labour Party
    The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

     (Arbeiderpartiet)
  • 1 from the Christian Democratic Party (Kristelig Folkeparti)
  • 1 from the Liberal Party (Venstre)
  • 4 from the Conservative Party
    Conservative Party of Norway
    The Conservative Party is a Norwegian political party. The current leader is Erna Solberg. The party was since the 1920s consistently the second largest party in Norway, but has been surpassed by the growth of the Progress Party in the late 1990s and 2000s...

     (Høyre)
  • 2 from the Progress Party
    Progress Party (Norway)
    The Progress Party is a political party in Norway which identifies as conservative liberal and libertarian. The media has described it as conservative and right-wing populist...

    (Fremskrittspartiet)
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