The main responsibilities of the county municipality included the running of 12 upper secondary schools with 4,500 pupils.

[2] The Sogn og Fjordane county council (Norwegian: Fylkestinget) is made up of 31 representatives that were elected every four years.

The council essentially acted as a Parliament or legislative body for the county and it met several times each year.

[3] The party breakdown of the council is as follows: In 2020, Sogn og Fjordane merged with neighbouring Hordaland to form Vestland county municipality.

The merger was part of a larger reform in local and regional administration initiated by the national government, which will see the number of county municipalities fall from 19 to 11.