Lillesand is municipality in Agder county,Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Lillesand. Some of the larger villages in Lillesand municipality include Åkerøyhamn,Brekkestø,Gamle Hellesund,Helldal,Høvåg,Ribe,Skottevik,Trøe,Ulvøysund,and Vesterhus.
Birkenes is a municipality in Agder county,Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Birkeland,where about half the municipal population lives. Other villages in Birkenes include Ås,Engesland,Flakk,Håbbesland,Herefoss,Mollestad,Oggevatn,Rugsland,Senumstad,Søre Herefoss,Svaland,Tveide,and Væting.
Truls Aronsen Wickholm is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He served as a deputy member of parliament for Oslo between 2005 and 2017 and later served as mayor of Nesodden between 2017 and 2021,when he became state secretary to minister of labour and social inclusion Hadia Tajik,a position he held until March 2022.
Søndeled is a former municipality in the old Aust-Agder county in Norway. The 189-square-kilometre (73 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964 when it was merged into the municipality of Risør in what is now Agder county. The municipality encompassed the land around the Søndeledfjorden. The administrative centre of Søndeled was the village of Søndeled at the innermost part of the Søndeledfjorden. Other villages in Søndeled included Stamsø,Akland,Moen,Bossvika,and Sivik. The main churches for Søndeled municipality were Indre Søndeled Church in the village of Søndeled and Ytre Søndeled Church in the east,just outside of the town of Risør.
Kjell Ingolf Ropstad is a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party,who served as the Minister of Children,Family and Church Affairs and the leader of the Christian Democratic Party from 2019 to 2021. He has been a member of the Norwegian Parliament,the Storting,since 2009.
Knut Werner Hansen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
Ivar Bühring Prestbakmo is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He currently serves as a deputy member of the Storting for Troms since 2021,having previously done so from 1993 to 2001. Prestbakmo was mayor of Salangen Municipality from 1999 to 2014,when he became county commissioner for transport and the environment until 2019.
Arne Bergsvåg is a Norwegian builder and politician for the Centre Party. He served as mayor of Ølen from 1999 to 2005 and then Vindafjord between 2005 and 2011. He later served as deputy county mayor of Rogaland between 2019 and 2023,and was also a deputy member of parliament for Rogaland between 2005 and 2013 and again from 2017 to 2021.
Roger Ryberg is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He served as county mayor of Viken from 2020 to 2023. He previously served as county mayor of Buskerud from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2015 to 2019.
Svein Harberg is a Norwegian businessman and politician for the Conservative Party. He has served as an member of Parliament for Aust-Agder since 2009,and the Storting's first Vice President since 2021. He was also mayor of Grimstad from 2003 to 2007.
Tom Tvedt is a Norwegian politician and former handball player for the Labour Party.
Runar Sjåstad is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He currently serves as a member of parliament for Finnmark since 2017 and was previously a deputy member between 2001 and 2017. He also served as county mayor of Finnmark between 2007 and 2017.
Kristian Sundtoft was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.
Laila Øygarden is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
Ragnhild Vassvik Kalstad is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She is currently serving as the mayor of Gamvik Municipality since 2023. Previously she served as county mayor of Finnmark between 2017 and 2019 and deputy county mayor from 2015 to 2017.
Jorunn Elisabet Gleditsch Lossius is a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party.
Gro-Anita Mykjåland is a Norwegian politician. She has been a member of the Storting for Aust-Agder since 2021. She previously served as mayor of Iveland from 2011 to 2021.
Marianne Sivertsen Næss is a Norwegian school principal and politician for the Labour Party. She is currently minister of fisheries and ocean policy since 2024 and a member of parliament for Finnmark since 2021. She previously served as mayor of Hammerfest Municipality between 2019 and 2021,and deputy mayor between 2011 and 2019.
The 2023 Norwegian local elections were held on 11 September 2023. Voters elected representatives to municipal and county councils,which are responsible for education,public transportation,healthcare,elderly care,waste disposal,the levy of certain taxes,and more. All council seats were up for election across the 15 counties and 357 municipalities of Norway.
Ramani Konstanse Cornels Nordli is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
