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Hordaland County Municipality Hordaland fylkeskommune
Former County
Coat of arms
Location in Norway
Country	Norway
Disestablished	1 Jan 2020
Administrative center	Bergen
Government
• County mayor	Anne Gine Hestetun
ISO 3166 code	NO-12
Revenue	NOK 3,300 million
Employees	4,200
Schools	46
Pupils	17,000
Transit authority	Skyss
Website	www.hordaland.no

Hordaland County Municipality (Norwegian: Hordaland fylkeskommune) was the regional governing administration of the old Hordaland county in Norway. The county municipality was established in its most recent form on 1 January 1976 when the law was changed to allow elected county councils in Norway. The county municipality was dissolved on 1 January 2020, when Hordaland was merged with the neighboring Sogn og Fjordane county, creating the new Vestland county which is led by the Vestland County Municipality.

The main responsibilities of the county municipality included the running of 46 upper secondary schools, with 17,000 pupils. It managed all the county roadways, public transport, dental care, culture, and cultural heritage sites in the county.

County government

The Hordaland county council (Norwegian: Fylkestinget) was made up of 57 representatives that were elected every four years. The council essentially acted as a Parliament or legislative body for the county and it met several times each year. The council was divided into standing committees and an executive board (fylkesutvalg) which met considerably more often. Both the council and executive board were led by the County Mayor (fylkesordfører) who held the executive powers of the county. The final County Mayor was Anne Gine Hestetun of the Labour Party, while her deputy was Rune Haugsdal.

County council

The party breakdown of the council was as follows:

Transport

Public transport in Hordaland was the responsibility of the county municipality, including the city buses in the city of Bergen. Control of the city buses was transferred from the city to the county on 1 January 2008.

In 2007, the county municipality created the transit authority called "Skyss" that would market public transport while it would be operated by private companies based on public service obligation contracts. Prior to this, most routes had been operated by the private company Tide Buss and its predecessors.

References

1. "Members of county councils, by party/electoral list1 and county. 2015" (in Norwegian). Statistics Norway. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
2. ^ Are Tvedt, Knut; Tjørnhaugen, Andreas, eds. (18 September 2019). "valgresultater fylkesting 1975-2015 - Hordaland". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 1 December 2020.

External links

• Official site Archived 5 February 2005 at the Wayback Machine

v t e County municipalities of Norway
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Former	Aust-Agder Hedmark Hordaland Nord-Trøndelag Oppland Sogn og Fjordane Sør-Trøndelag Troms og Finnmark Vest-Agder Vestfold og Telemark Viken

• Hordaland County Municipality
• Hordaland
• County municipalities of Norway
• Organisations based in Bergen
• 1838 establishments in Norway
• 2020 disestablishments in Norway