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.[3]
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".[4] 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.[5][6]
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: