Valgerd Svarstad Haugland is a Norwegian teacher,politician and civil servant.
Erna Solberg is a Norwegian politician and the current Leader of the Opposition. She served as the 35th prime minister of Norway from 2013 to 2021,and has been Leader of the Conservative Party since May 2004.
Marit Arnstad is a Norwegian lawyer and politician for the Centre Party. She is currently the party's parliamentary leader since 2014,having previously held the office from 2003 to 2005. Arnstad was the Norwegian Minister of Transport from 2012 to 2013 and Minister of Petroleum and Energy from 1997 to 2000.
Liv Signe Navarsete is a Norwegian politician from the Centre Party. She has served as county governor of Vestland county since 2022. She previously served as Minister of Local Government from 2009 to 2013,Minister of Transport from 2005 to 2009 and party leader from 2008 to 2014. On 11 February 2014,she announced that she would retire as the leader of the party in April. She was succeeded by Trygve Slagsvold Vedum.
Ulf Isak Leirstein is a Norwegian politician,formerly for the Progress Party and then independent,and a member of the Storting from 2005 to 2021. He left the party after it was revealed that he had sent pornographic pictures to a mailing list belonging to the Progress Party's youth wing.
Marit Tingelstad is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
Kirsti Bergstø is a Norwegian politician serving as the leader of the Socialist Left Party since March 2023. She previously served as one of the party's deputy leaders from 2017 to 2023.
Marit Nybakk is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party,a former First Vice-president of the Norwegian Parliament,the Storting,and a former President of the Nordic Council. From 2016 to 2018 she was President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights,the preeminent women's and girls' rights organisation in Norway.
Steinar Gudmund Ness is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
Geir Pollestad is a Norwegian solicitor and politician for the Centre Party. He is currently serving as the minister of agriculture and food since 2023,and has been a member of parliament for Rogaland since 2013.
Eli Arnstad is a Norwegian civil servant,sports official and politician for the Centre Party.
Henrik Asheim is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He was leader of the Norwegian Young Conservatives from 2008 to 2012,and Minister of Higher Education from 2020 to 2021. He has also been an MP for Akershus since 2013 and the party's first deputy leader since 2022.
Sosialdemokrater mot EU was a Norwegian interest organization which opposed a future Norwegian membership in the European Union,coupled with a Social Democrat ideology. It was special in that the Social Democrat Norwegian Labour Party,spearheaded by Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland,strongly supported such a membership. Sosialdemokrater mot EU was active in 1993 and 1994,around the 1994 Norwegian European Union membership referendum where a majority rejected the membership.
Hadia Tajik is a Pakistani-Norwegian jurist,journalist and politician from the Labour Party. She served as Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion from 2021 to 2022. She previously served as Minister of Culture from 2012 to 2013. She was 29 years of age at the time and became the youngest minister to serve in the Norwegian government. She is the first Cabinet member that is a Muslim. Tajik has served as a Member of Parliament representing Rogaland since 2017,and Oslo from 2009 to 2017. She was also the party's deputy leader from 2015 until 2022.
Anne Tingelstad Wøien is a Norwegian politician from Oppland representing the Centre Party. She was a member of parliament for Oppland between 2009 and 2017. She sat on the Standing Committee on Education,Research and Church Affairs.
Kjersti Stenseng is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party currently serving as the party secretary since 2015. She also served as a deputy member of the Storting from Oppland from 2013 to 2017.
Sandra Konstance Nygård Borch is a Norwegian politician who served as the minister of research and higher education from 2023 to 2024,and previously as minister of agriculture and food from 2021 to 2023. A member of the Centre Party,she served as the leader of the Centre Youth from 2011 to 2013,while simultaneously serving as a deputy MP from her home constituency of Troms from 2009 to 2013. She was elected a permanent representative in 2017. In January 2024 it was revealed that parts of her master's thesis had been plagiarised,leading to calls for her immediate resignation. As a result of the affair,she resigned in the evening of 19 January 2024. She risks losing her degree.
Sigbjørn Gjelsvik is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He was elected to Parliament in 2017. He also served as minister of local government from 2022 to 2023.
Marie Sneve Martinussen is a Norwegian musician and politician representing the Red Party. She has represented Akershus in the Storting since 2021 and served as the party's first deputy leader from 2012 to 2023,and acting leader since 2023.
Oppland is one of the 19 multi-member constituencies of the Storting,the national legislature of Norway. The constituency was established as Opland in 1921 following the introduction of proportional representation for elections to the Storting. Its spelling was settled as Oppland in 1950. It consists of the municipalities of Dovre,Etnedal,Gausdal,Gjøvik,Gran,Lesja,Lillehammer,Lom,Nord-Aurdal,Nord-Fron,Nordre Land,Østre Toten,Øyer,Øystre Slidre,Ringebu,Sel,Skjåk,Søndre Land,Sør-Aurdal,Sør-Fron,Vågå,Vang,Vestre Slidre and Vestre Toten in the county of Innlandet. The constituency currently elects five of the 169 members of the Storting using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2021 parliamentary election it had 132,383 registered electors.
