# Laksevåg (municipality)

Laksevåg is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county in Norway. The 32-square-kilometre (12 sq mi) municipality was located on the western part of the Bergen Peninsula. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Loddefjord. The municipality, which existed from 1918 until 1972, was a located a short distance west of the city of Bergen, and today it makes up the borough of Laksevåg which is part of the city of Bergen in Bergen Municipality which is now in Vestland county. The municipality was located along the Byfjorden, north of the Grimstadfjorden, and west of the Fyllingsdalen valley.

## History

The municipality of Laksevåg was established on 1 July 1918 when it was separated from the municipality of Askøy. Initially, the municipality had 6,957 residents. On 1 July 1921, the village area of Gyldenpris (population: 1,734) was transferred from Laksevåg to the growing city of Bergen, located to the east. On 1 January 1972, the city of Bergen was expanded and the four surrounding municipalities of Laksevåg (population: 24,672), Arna, Fana, and Åsane, were all merged with Bergen to form one large urban municipality with over 200,000 residents.

### Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Laksevåg farm (Old Norse: Laxavágr) since the first Laksevåg Church was built there. The first element is the plural genitive case of the word lax which means "salmon". The last element is vágr which means "inlet" or "bay". Thus, the name means "salmon bay". On 21 December 1917, a royal resolution enacted the 1917 Norwegian language reforms. Prior to this change, the name was spelled Laksevaag with the digraph "aa", and after this reform, the name was spelled Laksevåg, using the letter å instead.

## Government

During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.

### Mayors

The mayors (Nynorsk: ordførar) of Laksevåg:
* 1919–1920: A. Andersen
* 1920–1922: Ludvig Sæhoug
* 1923–1925: D.M. Davidsen
* 1926–1928: Bernhard Christensen
* 1929–1931: Hermann Havre
* 1932–1934: Bernhard Christensen
* 1935–1936: B. Groufh-Jacobsen
* 1936–1940: Alf Pettersen
* 1945–1945: Alf Pettersen
* 1946–1954: Andreas Nygaardsvik
* 1954–1964: Olav Hereid
* 1964–1971: Ingvald Iversen

### Municipal council

The municipal council (Kommunestyre) of Laksevåg was made up of 41 representatives that were elected to four-year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:
Laksevåg kommunestyre 1968–1971 :
| Party name (in Nynorsk) | Party name (in Nynorsk) | Number of representatives |
| | Labour Party (Arbeidarpartiet) | 20 |
| | Conservative Party (Høgre) | 7 |
| | Communist Party (Kommunistiske Parti) | 1 |
| | Christian Democratic Party (Kristeleg Folkeparti) | 2 |
| | Socialist People's Party (Sosialistisk Folkeparti) | 3 |
| | Liberal Party (Venstre) | 8 |
| Total number of members: | Total number of members: | 41 |
Laksevåg kommunestyre 1964–1967 :
| Party name (in Nynorsk) | Party name (in Nynorsk) | Number of representatives |
| | Labour Party (Arbeidarpartiet) | 22 |
| | Conservative Party (Høgre) | 8 |
| | Communist Party (Kommunistiske Parti) | 1 |
| | Christian Democratic Party (Kristeleg Folkeparti) | 2 |
| | Socialist People's Party (Sosialistisk Folkeparti) | 1 |
| | Liberal Party (Venstre) | 7 |
| Total number of members: | Total number of members: | 41 |
Laksevåg heradsstyre 1960–1963 :
| Party name (in Nynorsk) | Party name (in Nynorsk) | Number of representatives |
| | Labour Party (Arbeidarpartiet) | 19 |
| | Conservative Party (Høgre) | 5 |
| | Communist Party (Kommunistiske Parti) | 5 |
| | Christian Democratic Party (Kristeleg Folkeparti) | 4 |
| | Liberal Party (Venstre) | 8 |
| Total number of members: | Total number of members: | 41 |
Laksevåg heradsstyre 1956–1959 :
| Party name (in Nynorsk) | Party name (in Nynorsk) | Number of representatives |
| | Labour Party (Arbeidarpartiet) | 19 |
| | Conservative Party (Høgre) | 4 |
| | Communist Party (Kommunistiske Parti) | 6 |
| | Christian Democratic Party (Kristeleg Folkeparti) | 4 |
| | Liberal Party (Venstre) | 8 |
| Total number of members: | Total number of members: | 41 |
Laksevåg heradsstyre 1952–1955 :
| Party name (in Nynorsk) | Party name (in Nynorsk) | Number of representatives |
| | Labour Party (Arbeidarpartiet) | 15 |
| | Conservative Party (Høgre) | 2 |
| | Communist Party (Kommunistiske Parti) | 5 |
| | Christian Democratic Party (Kristeleg Folkeparti) | 3 |
| | Liberal Party (Venstre) | 7 |
| Total number of members: | Total number of members: | 32 |
Laksevåg heradsstyre 1948–1951 :
| Party name (in Nynorsk) | Party name (in Nynorsk) | Number of representatives |
| | Labour Party (Arbeidarpartiet) | 12 |
| | Conservative Party (Høgre) | 1 |
| | Communist Party (Kommunistiske Parti) | 8 |
| | Christian Democratic Party (Kristeleg Folkeparti) | 2 |
| | Liberal Party (Venstre) | 5 |
| | Joint List(s) of Non-Socialist Parties (Borgarlege Felleslister) | 4 |
| Total number of members: | Total number of members: | 32 |
Laksevåg heradsstyre 1945–1947 :
| Party name (in Nynorsk) | Party name (in Nynorsk) | Number of representatives |
| | Labour Party (Arbeidarpartiet) | 13 |
| | Conservative Party (Høgre) | 1 |
| | Liberal Party (Venstre) | 3 |
| | List of workers, fishermen, and small farmholders (Arbeidarar, fiskarar, småbrukarar liste) | 4 |
| | Joint List(s) of Non-Socialist Parties (Borgarlege Felleslister) | 3 |
| Total number of members: | Total number of members: | 24 |
Laksevåg heradsstyre 1938–1941* :
| Party name (in Nynorsk) | Party name (in Nynorsk) | Number of representatives |
| | Labour Party (Arbeidarpartiet) | 8 |
| | Conservative Party (Høgre) | 2 |
| | Communist Party (Kommunistiske Parti) | 5 |
| | Liberal Party (Venstre) | 4 |
| | Joint List(s) of Non-Socialist Parties (Borgarlege Felleslister) | 4 |
| | Local List(s) (Lokale lister) | 1 |
| Total number of members: | Total number of members: | 24 |
| Note: Due to the German occupation of Norway during World War II, no elections were held for new municipal councils until after the war ended in 1945. |||