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The Storting is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members, and is elected every four years based on party-list proportional representation in nineteen plurinominal constituencies. A member of the Storting is known in Norwegian as a stortingsrepresentant, literally "Storting representative".
Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Reigate constituency in Surrey, and from May 2010 to September 2012 he was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prisons and Youth Justice within the Ministry of Justice.
Mark Gino Francois is a British Conservative Party politician, former lobbyist, and Territorial Army veteran. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rayleigh and Wickford and former MP for Rayleigh. He has previously served as a Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence, a Minister of State for the Armed Forces, a Minister of State for Communities and Resilience and Minister for Portsmouth at the Department for Communities and Local Government. In 2018, he was appointed the Deputy Chair and de facto "Whip" of the Conservative eurosceptic European Research Group by its Chair, Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Kevin James Andrews is an Australian politician and member of the Liberal Party of Australia. He is currently a backbench Member of the House of Representatives for the seat of Menzies, to which he was first elected at the 1991 by-election. Andrews is a conservative and a Catholic.
Colonel John Mark Lancaster, is a British Conservative Party politician, who has served as Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes North since the seat's creation at the 2010 general election, having been Member of Parliament for the North East Milton Keynes constituency between 2005 and 2010. Since 13 June 2017, he has been Minister of State for the Armed Forces in the Second May ministry.
Jioji Konousi "George" Konrote, OF, MC is a Fijian politician and retired Major-General of the Fiji Military who has been President of Fiji since 2015. After commanding a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, Konrote served as Fiji's High Commissioner to Australia from 2001 to 2006, as Minister of State for Immigration briefly in 2006, and as Minister for Employment Opportunities, Productivity and Industrial Relations from 2014 to 2015. He is the first non-iTaukei president and the first Seventh-day Adventist to be elected by parliament, as previous presidents were selected by the Great Council of Chiefs.
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Rajesh Verma is an Indian politician and a member of the Bhartiya Janta Party. He was elected to the 13th Lok Sabha in 1999, the 14th Lok Sabha in 2004 and the 16th Lok Sabha in 2014 from Sitapur constituency in Uttar Pradesh state. He is again given the ticket from Sitapur by the BJP for the 2019 General Elections.
General elections were held in Fiji on 17 September 2014, to select the 50 members of the Fijian parliament.
The 40th Canadian Parliament was in session from November 18, 2008 to March 26, 2011, and was the last Parliament of the longest-running minority government in Canadian history that began with the previous Parliament. The membership of its House of Commons was determined by the results of the 2008 federal election held on October 14, 2008. Its first session was then prorogued by the Governor General on December 4, 2008, at the request of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who was facing a likely no-confidence motion and a coalition agreement between the Liberal party and the New Democratic Party with the support of the Bloc Québécois. Of the 308 MPs elected at the October 14, 2008 general election, 64 were new to Parliament and three sat in Parliaments previous to the 39th: John Duncan, Jack Harris, and Roger Pomerleau.
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Lt Col Pio Tikoduadua is a Fijian politician, Member of the Parliament of Fiji, and former cabinet Minister. He is a member of the National Federation Party.
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Christopher John Crewther is an Australian politician. He is the federal member for Dunkley in the Australian House of Representatives, where he lives with his wife Grace and two children. He is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia, serving under the current Coalition government led by prime minister Scott Morrison. Crewther succeeded the previous member, Bruce Billson, at the 2016 federal election. He was the youngest member of parliament in the Australian House of Representatives from 2 July 2016 to 28 July 2018, and remains the youngest representative in the Government.
