Telemark County Municipality is the regional governing administration of Telemark

Telemark

is a county in Norway, bordering Vestfold, Buskerud, Hordaland, Rogaland and Aust-Agder. The county administration is in Skien. Until 1919 the county was known as Bratsberg amt.-Location:...

, 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...

. The main responsibilities of the county municipality includes the running of 29 upper secondary schools

Education in Norway

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. It administrates the county roadways, public transport

Public transport

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, dental care

Dental care

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, culture

Culture

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 and cultural heritage

Cultural Heritage Management

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.

The county council

County council (Norway)

A County Council is the highest governing body of the county municipalities in Norway. The county council sets the scope of the county municipal activity. The council is led by a chairman or county mayor...

 is led by Gunn Marit Helgesen

Gunn Marit Helgesen

Gunn Marit Helgesen is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.Helgesen has been a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament since 1993. Since 2003 she is county mayor of Telemark. From 1995 to 2003 she was deputy county mayor...

 of 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...

. The administration is located in Skien

Skien

' is a city and municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Skien. Skien is also the administrative centre of Telemark county....

. The county municipality has 1,544 employees, and in 2007, a revenue of .

2007 election

Party	Votes	%	Change '99	Seats	Change '99
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....	27,054	36.5%	+2.1%
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...	16,226	21.9%	+0.7%
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...	8,214	11.1%	+1.3%
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...	6,053	8.2%	–0.3%
Christian Democrats	5,897	8.0%	+0.1%
Socialist Left Socialist Left Party (Norway) The Socialist Left Party or SV, is a Norwegian left-wing political party. At one point one of the smallest parties in Parliament, it became the fourth-largest political party in Norway for the first time in the 2001 parliamentary election, and has been so ever since...	4,773	6.4%	–6.7%
Liberal	3,760	5.1%	+2.1%
Red Electoral Alliance Red Electoral Alliance Red Electoral Alliance was an alliance of left-wing groups formed into a Norwegian political party to promote revolutionary far-left ideals into the Norwegian parliament...	1,409	0,7%	-0,2%
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...	495	0.7%	+0.7%
Democrats Demokratene The Democrats in Norway , formerly and commonly known as the Democrats, is a Norwegian political party. The party was formed in 2002, chiefly by former Progress Party members. It is led by Vidar Kleppe, a former Deputy Leader and Member of Parliament for the Progress Party...	118	0,2%	0,0%
Coastal Party Coastal Party The Coastal Party is a Norwegian conservative and centrist political party. The party has district, fishing and coastal issues among its primary policies and is a staunch opponent of Norwegian EU membership. It was represented in the Norwegian Parliament from 2001 to 2005, and its predecessor, the...	95	0.1%	+0.1%

Upper Secondary Schools

• Bamble Upper Secondary School
• Bø vidaregåande skule
• Croftholmen Upper Secondary School
• Hjalmar Johansen Upper Secondary School
• Kragerø Upper Secondary School
• Lunde vidaregåande skule
• Notodden Upper Secondary School
• Porsgrunn Upper Secondary School
• Rjukan Upper Secondary School
• Skien Upper Secondary School
• Skogmo Upper Secondary School
• Søve Upper Secondary School
• Vest-Telemark Upper Secondary School