South Fron was the only municipality where there was a majority to join with neighboring municipalities in Sunday’s referendums.
residents in seven municipalities in Oppland flocked to the polls to vote yes or no to mergers government has demanded in its municipalities form. The answer was an emphatic no.
– It’s hard to say why North Carolina and Ringebu voted no to a merger with us. We are glad to neighboring ours, but now must be discussed ahead, said Mayor Ole Tvete Muri Teigen (Sp) in South Fron said.
– Not surprisingly
According Gudbrandsdølen Dagningen was 73.5 percent of residents in South Fron for a merger with neighboring municipalities, while in North Carolina and Ringebu were only 37.6 and 25.7 per cent of citizens who voted for the three municipalities were merged into a larger unit .
– the result was not surprising, but I had hoped that more would vote yes because the political majority wants it, said mayor Rune Støstad (Ap) in North Carolina municipality said.
He stressed that the council composed of FRP, the Conservatives and Labour now will make a comprehensive assessment of the situation.
– the signal from the referendum is clear, but I will not Defeased whether there will be a merger or not says Støstad.
in South Fron municipality was the turnout of 46.6 percent, while 49.4 percent in North Carolina and 54.8 percent in Ringebu.
No. of Lom and Skjåk
In Lom and Skjåk municipality voiced respectively 76 and 76.9 percent of residents towards a merger.
– This was what we wanted. The process from the government here has been perceived as obscure and immature, and a merger would have considerable negative consequences for both Skjåk and Lom municipality, said Mayor Elias Sperstad (Sp) in Skjåk municipality said.
Only 20, 5 percent of residents in Skjåk voted yes to a merger, while 2.6 percent abstained. Election turnout in the county was 59.6 percent.
914 of the 1,938 registered voters in Lom voted Sunday and voter turnout was thus 47 percent. Only 21 percent voted yes, while 3 percent ended up presenting abstentions.
Clear majority in Vågå and Sel
81.6 percent of the residents of Vågå municipality voted no to merger with Sel municipality in Oppland. Sel municipality responded in kind: 59.5 percent of residents voted against a merger.
– What we in the Labour Party constantly have said, that we should follow the people of this question, despite the fact that we had wanted a yes, we will now work for an answer in the council, said mayor Iselin Jonassen (Ap) in Vågå municipality said.
Only 16.7 percent of the residents of Vågå voted yes to a merging, while 1.7 percent abstained. In Sel stood yes side slightly stronger with 36.2 percent, mans 4.3 percent abstained.
1134 people showed up at polling stations in Vågå, which resulted in a turnout of 58.8 percent. Sel municipality thus had the lowest voter turnout in the referendum with 44.6 percent.
Super Monday
Monday it is ready for new referendums in 31 municipalities spread across six counties. In a number of municipalities that it is appropriate to merge with, there is no referendum, but instead held capita investigation.
Residents must answer whether they say yes or no to the merger. If the answer is yes, several municipalities have different options for which models are appropriate. The deadline to make decisions on voluntary amalgamation is 1 July.
Most councils have so far indicated that they should respond to citizens’ opinion after the referendum. Yet it is such that the individual municipal councils have the final word, regardless of the referendum, according to the Local Government Act. (NTB)
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