History

Madla municipality

Municipalities of Norway

Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties , and 430 municipalities...

 was created by a split from Håland

Håland

Håland was a former municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.Håland is part of the traditional Norwegian district of Jæren. The clerical district of Håland had included churches located in Sola, Tananger, Tjora and Madla. The parish of Håland was established as a municipality on January 1, 1838...

 in 1930. At that time Madla had a population of 1,091. On 1 January 1965 Madla was incorporated into Stavanger along with the majority of Hetland

Hetland

Hetland is a former municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.It was created as Hetland formannskapsdistrikt in 1837. On 1 July 1922, Randaberg was separated from Hetland to create a municipality of its own. The split left Hetland with a population of 10,167...

 municipality. Prior to the merger Madla had a population of 6,025.

Neighbourhoods

Although the borders of neighbourhoods do not correspond exactly to the borough borders, Madla roughly consists of the following neighbourhoods (delområder): Madlamark

Madlamark

Madlamark is a neighborhood in the borough Madla in Stavanger, Norway.The neighborhood has a population of 6,556, distributed on an area of 2,49 km².-References:*Based on the...

, Hafrsfjord

Hafrsfjord

Hafrsfjord is a fjord or bay located in the municipalities of Stavanger and Sola in Norway. Stretching 9 kilometres. Hafrsfjord fjord is bounded by Tananger, Sola and Madla...

, Kvernevik

Kvernevik

Kvernevik is a neighborhood in the borough Madla in Stavanger, Norway.Kvernevik is a subsite of Madla district in the municipality of Stavanger in Rogaland County.Delområdets area is 1.46 km ² and its population in 2005 was 4714 persons...

 and Sunde

Sunde, Stavanger

Sunde is a neighborhood in the borough Madla in Stavanger, Norway.The neighborhood has a population of 4,104, distributed on an area of 5,74 km².-References:*Based on the...

.

Politics

Madla has a borough council (bydelsutvalg). The council consists of 11 members, with the following party allegiance:

• 2 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 Centre Party
  Centre Party (Norway)
  The Centre Party is a centrist and agrarian political party in Norway, founded in 1920. The Centre Party's policy is not based on any of the major ideologies of the 19th and 20th century, but has a focus on maintaining decentralised economic development and political decision-making.From its...
  
   (Senterpartiet)
• 1 from the Christian Democratic Party (Kristelig Folkeparti)
• 1 from the Liberal Party (Venstre)
• 3 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)
• 1 from the Pensioners Party
  Pensioners Party (Norway)
  The Pensioners' Party is a political party in Norway without parliamentary representation. It was founded in 1985 to work for the interests of pensioners. The party has never been elected to parliament, althouth former Arne Haukvik who was elected on the Centre Party list in 1993 joined the party...
  
   (Pensjonistpartiet)
• 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)