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Norway is divided into 19 counties, and each county is a constituency in the election.

Each county elects a pre-calculated number of seats in the Parliament, the Storting, based on the population and geographical area of the county.

Each inhabitant scores one point and each square kilometer scores 1. 8 points.

This calculation is done every eight years.

This practice has been criticised because in some larger counties with sparse population a single vote counts more than in other more densely populated counties.

Others claim that counties with a scattered and sparse population situated far away from the central administration should have a stronger representation in the Parliament.

In recent elections a vote in the northernmost county Finnmark has counted approximately twice a vote in the capital Oslo or the surrounding county Akershus.