Lars Sponheim is a Norwegian politician. He was leader of the Liberal Party from 1996 to 2010. He was a member of the Storting from 1993 to 2009,and a government minister from 1997 to 2000 and from 2001 to 2005. He served as County Governor of Vestland from 2010 to 2022,having served as the County Governor of Hordaland from 2010 until the office was merged with that of neighboring Sogn og Fjordane in 2019.
Laila Dåvøy is a Norwegian nurse and politician for the Christian Democratic Party. She is a former member of the Norwegian parliament and a former Minister and leader of the Norwegian Nurses' Union.
Svein Harald Ludvigsen is a Norwegian former politician for the Conservative Party and a convicted sex offender. He served as a member of parliament (1989–2001),deputy leader of the Conservative Party (1990–1991),minister of fisheries (2001–2005),and county governor of Troms (2006–2014). In 2019 he was convicted of sexually abusing three young men,and sentenced to five years imprisonment;his conviction and sentence became final in January 2020.
Olav Akselsen was a Norwegian politician,who served six terms in the Norwegian Parliament for the Norwegian Labour Party,and was Minister of Petroleum and Energy in the first cabinet Stoltenberg from 2000 to 2001. From 2010 to 2021,he worked for the Norwegian Maritime Directorate.
Eva Margaret Nielsen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Finnmark in 2001,and has been re-elected on one occasion. She had previously served as a deputy representative during the term 1989–1993.
Per Rune Henriksen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
Kurt Mosbakk is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Trade and Shipping from 1986 to 1987,when the ministry was closed;he continued on as the Minister of Trade and Shipping Affairs at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs until June 1988. He served as the acting County Governor of Finnmark county for about five months during 1990.
Arne Alsåker Spilde is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.
Harald Hove was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Liberal Party.
Bjarte Erling Eikeset was a Norwegian lawyer,judge and politician for the Conservative Party.
Henrik Johan Lisæth is a Norwegian businessperson and politician from the Conservative Party.
Torill Selsvold Nyborg is a Norwegian nurse,missionary and politician for the Christian Democratic Party.
Odd With was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party. He served as the County Governor of Nordland county from 1983 until 1991 and he was a member of the Parliament of Norway from 1973 to 1985.
Håkon Randal was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.
Laila Marie Reiertsen,née Bjørkhaug is a Norwegian politician from Hordaland,residing in Os representing the Progress Party.
Ole Lysø is a Norwegian labourer,trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party. He was the mayor of Austrheim.
The 1994 national convention of the Progress Party of Norway was held from 15 April to 17 April at the hotel BolkesjøTuristhotell in Bolkesjø,Telemark. It was originally set up to be a normal convention with 157 delegates in a non-election year,but because of mounting antagonism between a traditionalist and a libertarian faction,it became clear some months before the conventions that personal positions could be at stake. The party leader seat,held by Carl I. Hagen since 1978,was up for re-election. The deputy leaders Ellen Wibe and Hans J. Røsjorde was not up for election until 1995,but there were talks about forming a motion of no confidence against Wibe. The political disagreements roughly corresponded to a cleavage between two factions.
Erling Løseth was a Norwegian educator and politician for the Labour Party.
Helge AndréNjåstad is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Hordaland in 2013 where he serves as the chair of the Standing Committee on Local Government and Public Administration. He was mayor of Austevoll from 2003 to 2013.
Marit Wikholm,née Vevatne was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
