Editing Sogn og Fjordane (section)

==Government==
A county ''(fylke)'' is the chief local administrative area in [[Norway]]. The country is divided into 19 counties. A county is also an election area, with popular votes taking place every 4 years.  The [[Sogn og Fjordane County Municipality]] was the government that oversaw the county.  It was a group of 39 members who were elected to form a [[county council (Norway)|county council]] ''(Fylkesting)''. Heading the ''Fylkesting'' was the county mayor ''(fylkesordførar)''. The last county mayor for the [[Sogn og Fjordane County Municipality]] was [[Åshild Kjelsnes]], the county mayor.  She replaced [[Nils R. Sandal]], who was county mayor from 2003 until 2011.<ref name=em />

The county also had a [[County governor (Norway)|County Governor]] ''(fylkesmann)'' who was the representative of the [[Monarchy of Norway|King]] and [[Politics of Norway|Government of Norway]]. [[Anne Karin Hamre]] was the last County Governor of Sogn og Fjordane. She replaced [[Oddvar Flæte]], who was county governor from 1994 until 2011.

The municipalities of Sogn og Fjordane were divided among three [[district court (Norway)|district courts]] (''tingrett''): [[Sogn District Court|Sogn]], [[Fjordane District Court|Fjordane]], and [[Nordhordland District Court|Nordhordland]]. Sogn og Fjordane was also part of the [[Gulating Court of Appeal]] district based in [[Bergen]].<ref name=no />
* Sogn District Court: [[Aurland Municipality|Aurland]], [[Balestrand Municipality|Balestrand]], [[Leikanger Municipality|Leikanger]], [[Luster Municipality|Luster]], [[Lærdal Municipality|Lærdal]], [[Sogndal Municipality|Sogndal]], [[Vik Municipality|Vik]], and [[Årdal Municipality|Årdal]]
* Fjordane District Court: [[Askvoll Municipality|Askvoll]], [[Bremanger Municipality|Bremanger]], [[Eid Municipality (Sogn og Fjordane)|Eid]], [[Fjaler Municipality|Fjaler]], [[Flora Municipality|Flora]], [[Førde Municipality|Førde]], [[Gaular Municipality|Gaular]], [[Gloppen Municipality|Gloppen]], [[Hornindal Municipality|Hornindal]], [[Hyllestad Municipality|Hyllestad]], [[Høyanger Municipality|Høyanger]], [[Jølster Municipality|Jølster]], [[Naustdal Municipality|Naustdal]], [[Selje Municipality|Selje]], [[Solund Municipality|Solund]], [[Stryn Municipality|Stryn]], and [[Vågsøy Municipality|Vågsøy]]
* Nordhordland District Court: [[Gulen Municipality|Gulen]] (and the rest of the [[Nordhordland]] district of the county of [[Hordaland]])

All of the municipalities of Sogn og Fjordane except Gulen and Solund were part of the Sogn og Fjordane [[Law enforcement by country#Norway|police district]]. Gulen and Solund were part of the Hordaland police district.<ref name=no />