Market towns of Vestfold county
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The Market towns of Vestfold county was an electoral district for parliamentary elections in Norway. It comprised the market towns of Holmestrand
Holmestrand
is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Holmestrad. The city was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 . The neighboring rural municipality of Botne was merged into the municipality of Holmestrand on 1 January...

, Horten
Horten
is a town and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway—located along the Oslofjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Horten. The municipality also includes the villages of Borre, Åsgårdstrand, Skoppum, and Nykirke....

, Tønsberg
Tønsberg
is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, southern Norway, located around north-east of Sandefjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tønsberg....

, Sandefjord
Sandefjord
is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Sandefjord. The municipality of Sandefjord was established on 1 January 1838...

 and Larvik
Larvik
is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Larvik. Larvik kommune - has about 41 364 inhabitants and covers 530 km2....

 in Vestfold
Vestfold
is a county in Norway, bordering Buskerud and Telemark. The county administration is in Tønsberg.Vestfold is located west of the Oslofjord, as the name indicates. It includes many smaller, but well-known towns in Norway, such as Larvik, Sandefjord, Tønsberg and Horten. The river Numedalslågen runs...

 county.

The district was established ahead of the Norwegian parliamentary election, 1921
Norwegian parliamentary election, 1921
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 following the change from single member
Single-winner voting systems
A single-member district or single-member constituency is an electoral district that returns one officeholder to a body with multiple members such as a legislature...

 constituencies to plural member constituencies in 1919.

Following changes in the national policy on market towns in 1952, these electoral districts were abolished ahead of the Norwegian parliamentary election, 1953
Norwegian parliamentary election, 1953
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. Instead, each county became one electoral district, and for election purposes the towns were integrated into their respective counties.

Representatives

The following representatives were elected from the Market towns of Vestfold county:
Representative 1 Representative 2 Representative 3 Representative 4
1921
Norwegian parliamentary election, 1921
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Christiansen, H Meinich, H Høeg, H Hanssen, A
1924
Norwegian parliamentary election, 1924
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Christiansen, H H.B. Sollie
Harald Bredo Sollie
Harald Bredo Sollie was a Norwegian jurist, naval officer and politician for the Conservative Party.He was born in Horten as a son of Hans Paulsen Sollie and Bredine Andrea Løes . He was an uncle of politician Hans Johan Sollie...

, H
Jenssen, SDA Preus, H
1927
Norwegian parliamentary election, 1927
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Spæren, H Jenssen, A Blom, H Christiansen, A
1930
Norwegian parliamentary election, 1930
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Nerdrum, H Jenssen, A Blom, H Rynning, H
1933
Norwegian parliamentary election, 1933
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Jenssen, A Sverdrup, H Christiansen, A H.J. Sollie
Hans Johan Sollie
Hans Johan Sollie was a Norwegian bookseller and politician for the Conservative Party.He was born in Aalesund as a son of headmaster Paul Sollie and Dorothea Torgersen . He was a nephew of politician Harald Bredo Sollie. He finished his secondary education in Fredrikshald in 1903, and set out to...

, H
1936
Norwegian parliamentary election, 1936
The parliamentary election of 1936 was the last one held in Norway before World War II and the German invasion of Norway.-Results:*...

Jenssen, A Sverdrup, H Christiansen, A Meyer, H
1945
Norwegian parliamentary election, 1945
These elections were held on 8 October 1945. The Labour Party won an absolute majority in the Storting which they would keep until 1961.-Results:...

Andersen, A Firing
Jørgen Leonard Firing
Jørgen Leonard Firing was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.He was born in Horten.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from the Market towns of Vestfold county in 1945, but was not re-elected in 1949...

, H
Henry
Carl Henry (politician)
Carl Henry was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.He was born in Kristiania as a son of baker Carl Jacobsen and Helga Elise Pedersen. He attended upper secondary school for four years, studying both sciences and commerce, the latter in Sandefjord. He also attended the Nordic folk high...

, A
Olsen
Claudia Olsen
Claudia Olsen was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.She was born in Tønsberg.She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from the Market towns of Vestfold in 1945, and was re-elected on three occasions.Olsen was a member of the executive committee of Tønsberg city council in the...

, H
1949
Norwegian parliamentary election, 1949
The general election of 1949 was held to elect 150 MPs to the Storting. The Norwegian Labour Party increased its share of the vote an won a large majority of seats in the chamber....

Torp, A Olsen
Claudia Olsen
Claudia Olsen was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.She was born in Tønsberg.She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from the Market towns of Vestfold in 1945, and was re-elected on three occasions.Olsen was a member of the executive committee of Tønsberg city council in the...

, H
Andersen, A Støtvig
Bjarne Støtvig
Bjarne Støtvig was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.He was born in Botne.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from the Market towns of Vestfold in 1950-1953, and was re-elected 1958 and 1961...

, H


Legend:
  • NKP = Communist Party, Norges Kommunistiske Parti
  • A = 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....

    , Det Norske Arbeiderparti
  • SDA = Social Democratic Labour Party
    Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway
    The Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway was a Norwegian political party in the 1920s. Following the Labour Party's entry into the Comintern in 1919, its right wing left the party to form the Social Democratic Labour Party in 1921...

    , Norges Socialdemokratiske Arbeiderparti
  • RF = Radical People's Party (Worker Democrats)
    Radical People's Party
    Radical People's Party was a political party in Norway, originally founded as the Labour Democrats . The party took part in its first elections in 1906. At that time the party was led by Johan Castberg...

    , Det Radikale Folkeparti (Arbeiderdemokratene)
  • KrF = Christian Democratic Party, Kristelig Folkeparti
  • B = Farmers' 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...

    , Bondepartiet
  • V = Liberal Party
    Venstre (Norway)
    The Liberal Party is a centrist liberal political party in Norway. The party is the oldest in the country, and has enacted reforms such as parliamentarism, freedom of religion, universal suffrage and free education. Since 2010, the leader of the party is Trine Skei Grande...

    , Venstre
  • FV = Liberal Left Party, Frisinnede Venstre
  • H = 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
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