is the second-most populated municipality in Troms county,Norway. It is mostly located on the large island of Hinnøya. The municipal center is the town of Harstad,which is the most populous town in Central Hålogaland and the third-largest in all of Northern Norway. The town was incorporated in 1904. Villages in the municipality include Elgsnes,Fauskevåg,Gausvik,Grøtavær,Kasfjord,Lundenes,Nergården and Sørvika.
Kristin Clemet is a Norwegian politician for Høyre,Norway's Conservative Party.
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.
Kari Gjesteby is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She has never been a member of the Norwegian Parliament,but has been State Secretary for three tenures,as well as Minister of Trade and Shipping from February to October 1981 and Minister of Justice and the Police from 1990 to 1992. After her political career she has been a director in the Bank of Norway,director of the National Library of Norway and the Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille and,from 2009 to 2013,the first female State Conciliator of Norway.
Helga Pedersen is a Norwegian politician,former Minister,and member of the Storting,who served as the deputy leader for the Labour Party from 2007 to 2015. A native of Sør-Varanger,she served between 2003 and 2005 as the County Mayor of the northernmost Finnmark county. From 2005 to 2009 she served as Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs,becoming the youngest member of the Labour-led Red-Green Coalition headed by Jens Stoltenberg.
Ola Borten Moe is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He was an MP for Sør-Trøndelag from 2005 to 2013,and was re-elected in 2021. From 2021 to 2023,he served as Minister of Research and Higher Education. He also served as Minister of Petroleum and Energy from 2011 to 2013.
Per-Willy Trudvang Amundsen is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party who served as Minister of Justice from December 2016 to January 2018. He previously served as state secretary in the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development from 2013,and represented Troms in the Norwegian parliament from 2005 until 2013. He was re-elected in 2017.
Anne Marit Bjørnflaten is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
John-Ragnar Aarset is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.
Roger Ingebrigtsen is a Norwegian journalist and politician for the Labour Party. He is best known as State Secretary in Stoltenberg's First and Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet and county councillor in Troms County Municipality (2003–2006). He has also worked as a journalist in Dagbladet and Verdens Gang,and was the news editor in Nordlys. He has also been information or communications director in the Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine,Hurtigruten and Tromsø2018.
Barbro Lill Hætta-Jacobsen 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 from 1999 to 2014,when he became county commissioner for transport and the environment until 2019.
Oddny Ballo Aleksandersen,is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
Håkon Arald Gulbrandsen is a Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Socialist Left Party.
Martin Henriksen is a Norwegian politician.
Regina Alexandrova is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.
Sandra Konstance Nygård Borch is a Norwegian former politician who served as the minister of research and higher education from 2023 to 2024 until her resignation over the extensive plagiarism of her master's thesis. As minister she had launched a crackdown on students' reuse of their own texts,so-called "self-plagiarism," leading to criticism from many academics who argued that reuse of one's own work is not plagiarism or research misconduct. She previously served 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 significant parts of her master's thesis had been plagiarised. She announced her resignation in the evening of 19 January 2024. She risks losing her degree.
Cecilie Myrseth is a Norwegian psychologist and politician for the Labour Party. She is currently the minister of fisheries since 2023. She is also a member of the Storting for Troms since 2017,and previously chaired the Troms county cabinet from 2015 to 2017.
Troms og Finnmark was a county in northern Norway that was established on 1 January 2020 as the result of a regional reform. It was the largest county by area in Norway,encompassing about 75,000 square kilometres (29,000 sq mi),and was formed by the merger of the former Finnmark and Troms counties in addition to Tjeldsund Municipality from Nordland county.
