Bente Bakke (born 13 November 1942) is a Norwegian politician. She was a two-term MP for the Conservative Party. September 14, 2015 she was elected as member of the municipal council in Vestby, representing the Green Party.
She was born in Oslo as a daughter of shipbroker Rolv Dahl-Jørgensen (1904–1980) and housewife Ragnhild Bjørneby (1908–2003). [1] She was a paternal granddaughter of politician Erling Jørgensen. [2] She finished secondary school in 1961 and Oslo Commerce School in 1962, and worked as a secretary in Oslo, London and Mysen. She was a journalist in Østfold Bygdeblad from 1980 to 1981 and edited the magazine KFB-bladet from 1991 to 2001. [1]
From 1973 she was a member of the New People's Party for one year. [3] She then joined the Conservative Party in 1974. [4] She was a member of Eidsberg municipal council from 1975 to 1979, and chaired the local party chapter from 1978 to 1979. She served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Østfold during the term 1981–1985, but during the entire term she filled in for Svenn Stray who was a cabinet member. She was elected as a full representative in 1985, and sat through the four-year term. In 1990 she released her memoirs from Parliament. [1]
She was a supervisory council member of the Norwegian Cancer Society from 1990 to 1995 and a member of Statens kulturminneråd from 1991 to 1996. [1] In 2011 she left the Conservative Party and joined the Green Party. [4] She is also active in the campaigns to stop Statoil's tar sand projects in Canada. She resides in Vestby.
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