The municipality of Øre was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). On 1 September 1882, a part of the neighboring Fredø Municipality (population: 40) was transferred to Øre. On 1 September 1893, the northern part of Øre (population: 226), was separated from Øre and merged with parts of Fredø and Kvernes municipalities to form the newly created Gjemnes Municipality.[4]
During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1965, the municipality of Øre ceased to exist. Øre Municipality (population: 1,565) was merged with Gjemnes Municipality (population: 697) and all of Tingvoll Municipality that was located west of the Tingvollfjorden (population: 778).[4]
Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Øre farm (Old Norse: Eyrar) since the first Øre Church was built there. The name is the plural form of eyrr which means "gravel shoal near the mouth of a river".[5]
The municipal council(Herredsstyre) of Øre was made up of 19 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows: