Editing Florø (section)

==History==
[[File:1866 4sk Norway Floro Mi8.jpg|thumb|left|The Florø post office cancel in 1866]]
Florø was founded as a [[List of cities in Norway|town]] ''([[ladested]])'' in 1860. Shortly after its founding, on 3 January 1861, it was removed from the (now) [[List of former municipalities of Norway|former municipality]] of [[Kinn (former municipality)|Kinn]] and made into a municipality of its own with a population of 846. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the [[Schei Committee]]. On 1 January 1964, a large municipal merger took place, merging the following places to form the newly created municipality of [[Flora, Norway|Flora]].<ref name="Dag">{{Cite book |last=Jukvam |first=Dag |year=1999 |title=Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen |url=http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/90/rapp_9913/rapp_9913.pdf |publisher=[[Statistics Norway|Statistisk sentralbyrå]] |language=no |isbn=9788253746845}}</ref>
*the town-municipality of Florø (population: 2,040) 
*the municipality of [[Eikefjord]] (population: 919)
*the municipality of Kinn (population: 3,567)
*the parts of the municipality of [[Bru, Sogn og Fjordane|Bru]] located north of the [[Førde Fjord]] (population: 1,155)
*the Husefest and Breivik areas of the municipality of [[Bremanger]] (population: 9)
*the Steindal area of the municipality of [[Vevring]] (population: 25)

On 1 January 2020, Flora was one of the municipalities that merged into a newly re-created [[Kinn]] municipality, much larger than the Kinn that existed until 1964.

===Coat of arms===
The [[coat of arms]] for the town of Florø was granted on 19 February 1960 and they were in use until 1 January 1964, when the new Flora Municipality was created and it included the town of Florø. (On 6 October 1967, the old arms of Florø were granted as the arms for Flora Municipality. These arms were in use until 1 January 2020 when the municipality of Flora was dissolved.) The official [[blazon]] is ''"[[Gules]], three [[herring]]s [[bendwise]] [[argent]]"'' ({{langx|no|På raud botn tre sølv sildar i skrå-stilling}}). This means the arms have a red [[field (heraldry)|field]] (background) and the [[charge (heraldry)|charge]] is a set of three diagonal [[herring]]. The charge has a [[tincture (heraldry)|tincture]] of [[argent]] which means it is commonly colored white, but if it is made out of metal, then silver is used. The three herrings are a symbol for the great local importance of herring [[fishing]] for the development and [[economy]] of Flora. The arms were designed by [[Hallvard Trætteberg]]. The municipal flag had the same design as the coat of arms.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Civic heraldry of Norway - Norske Kommunevåpen |url=https://www.heraldry-wiki.com/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Flora_(Sogn_og_Fjordane) |access-date=2023-05-29 |publisher=Heraldry of the World}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Flora, Sogn og Fjordane (Norway) |url=https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/no-14-01.html |access-date=2023-05-29 |website=Flags of the World}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1967-10-06 |title=Godkjenning av våpen og flagg |url=https://lovdata.no/dokument/LFO/forskrift/1967-10-06-3 |access-date=2023-05-29 |website=Lovdata.no |publisher=Norges kommunal- og arbeidsdepartementet |language=no}}</ref>

===Self-government (1861-1964)===
During its existence, this municipality was governed by a [[Municipal council (Norway)|municipal council]] of [[Direct election|directly elected]] representatives. The [[mayor]] was [[Indirect election|indirectly elected]] by a vote of the municipal council.<ref name="ks">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=kommunestyre |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |publisher=[[Kunnskapsforlaget]] |url=https://snl.no/kommunestyre |access-date=2023-01-01 |date=2022-09-20 |editor-last=Hansen |editor-first=Tore |language=no |editor2-last=Vabo |editor2-first=Signy Irene}}</ref>

====Mayors====
The [[Mayor#Scandinavia|mayors]] of Florø:<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hole |first=E.M. |url=http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2011101408062 |title=Florø gjennem 100 år - En utsikt over byens historie 1860-1935 |year=1935 |location=Florø |pages=5 and 21–23 |language=no}}</ref>
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* 1865–1873: Ude Jacob Høst
* 1874–1881: [[Livius Smitt]] 
* 1882–1885: Gunnar Olsen 
* 1886–1886: Oscar von Koss 
* 1887–1887: Fredrik Faye 
* 1888–1890: Fredrik T. Lorentzen
* 1891–1897: Gunnar Olsen 
* 1897–1901: E.M. Hole 
* 1902–1904: Elias Olsen 
* 1905–1907: Abraham Haave 
* 1908–1908: Ole Johannes Vasbotten 
* 1909–1910: Elias Olsen
* 1911–1922: E.M. Hole
* 1923–1927: Abraham Haave
* 1928–1933: Alfred V. Lauvsnes
* 1934–1934: Andreas Hodnefjeld
* 1935–1939: Alfred V. Lauvsnes
* 1940–1940: Einar Stavang
* 1945–1945: S.I. Solheim
* 1945–1946: Einar Stavang
* 1949–1955: Olav Kolle
* 1955–1957: [[Ludvig Olai Botnen]] ([[Liberal Party (Norway)|V]])
* 1958–1959: Kjeld Haus
* 1960–1961: [[Ludvig Olai Botnen]] ([[Liberal Party (Norway)|V]])
* 1962–1964: Kjeld Haus
{{div col end}}

====Municipal council====
The [[Municipal council (Norway)|municipal council]] {{lang|no|(Bystyre)}} of Florø was made up of 21 representatives that were elected to four year terms.  The [[Political party|party]] breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:
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{{Kommunestyre table
|name                      = Florø
|city                      = yes
|start                     = 1960
|end                       = 1963
|reference                 = <ref>{{Cite web |date=1960 |title=Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1959 |url=https://www.ssb.no/a/histstat/nos/nos_xii_022.pdf |access-date=2020-02-16 |publisher=Statistisk sentralbyrå |language=no |location=Oslo}}</ref>
|nynorsk                   = yes
|Total                     = 21
|Arbeiderpartiet           = 9
|Høyre                     = 5
|Venstre                   = 6
|Local_Lists               = 1
|}}
{{Kommunestyre table
|name                      = Florø
|city                      = yes
|start                     = 1956
|end                       = 1959
|reference                 = <ref>{{Cite web |date=1957 |title=Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1955 |url=https://www.ssb.no/a/histstat/nos/nos_xi_252.pdf |access-date=2020-02-16 |publisher=Statistisk sentralbyrå |language=no |location=Oslo}}</ref>
|nynorsk                   = yes
|collapsed                 = yes
|Total                     = 21
|Arbeiderpartiet           = 10
|Høyre                     = 6
|Venstre                   = 5
|}}
{{Kommunestyre table
|name                      = Florø
|city                      = yes
|start                     = 1952
|end                       = 1955
|reference                 = <ref>{{Cite web |date=1952 |title=Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1951 |url=https://www.ssb.no/a/histstat/nos/nos_xi_120.pdf |access-date=2020-02-16 |publisher=Statistisk sentralbyrå |language=no |location=Oslo}}</ref>
|nynorsk                   = yes
|collapsed                 = yes
|Total                     = 20
|Arbeiderpartiet           = 10
|Høyre                     = 4
|Venstre                   = 6
|}}
{{Kommunestyre table
|name                      = Florø
|city                      = yes
|start                     = 1948
|end                       = 1951
|reference                 = <ref>{{Cite web |date=1948 |title=Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1947 |url=https://www.ssb.no/a/histstat/nos/nos_x_165.pdf |access-date=2020-02-16 |publisher=Statistisk sentralbyrå |language=no |location=Oslo}}</ref>
|nynorsk                   = yes
|collapsed                 = yes
|Total                     = 20
|Arbeiderpartiet           = 11
|Høyre                     = 5
|Venstre                   = 4
|}}
{{Kommunestyre table
|name                      = Florø
|city                      = yes
|start                     = 1945
|end                       = 1947
|reference                 = <ref>{{Cite web |date=1947 |title=Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1945 |url=https://www.ssb.no/a/histstat/nos/nos_x_133.pdf |access-date=2020-02-16 |publisher=Statistisk sentralbyrå |language=no |location=Oslo}}</ref>
|nynorsk                   = yes
|collapsed                 = yes
|Total                     = 20
|Arbeiderpartiet           = 7
|NKP                       = 2
|Høyre                     = 6
|Venstre                   = 5
|}}
{{Kommunestyre table
|name                      = Florø
|city                      = yes
|start                     = 1938
|end                       = 1941* 
|reference                 = <ref>{{Cite web |date=1938 |title=Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1937 |url=https://www.ssb.no/a/histstat/nos/nos_ix_133.pdf |access-date=2020-05-13 |publisher=Statistisk sentralbyrå |language=no |location=Oslo}}</ref>
|collapsed                 = yes
|nynorsk                   = yes
|Total                     = 20
|Høyre                     = 3
|Venstre                   = 4
|Borgerlige_Felleslister   = 4
|Arbeiderpartiet           = 9
|}}
{{Kommunestyre table
|name                      = Florø
|city                      = yes
|start                     = 1935
|end                       = 1937 
|reference                 = <ref>{{Cite web |date=1935 |title=Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1934 |url=https://www.ssb.no/a/histstat/nos/nos_ix_057.pdf |access-date=2020-05-13 |publisher=Statistisk sentralbyrå |language=no |location=Oslo}}</ref>
|collapsed                 = yes
|Total                     = 20
|Høyre                     = 6
|Venstre                   = 4
|Arbeiderpartiet           = 9
|Local_Lists               = 1
|}}
{{div col end}}