Sjur Hopperstad (30 October 1930 – 28 September 2015) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. A farmer from

Vangsnes Vangsnes is a village located in the municipality of Vik in Vestland county, Norway. It's located on a relatively flat and fertile peninsula that juts out on the south side of the Sognefjorden, roughly at the midpoint of the fjord which is Norway ...

, he was a member of

Balestrand Balestrand is a former municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It was located on the northern shore of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center was the village of Balestrand. Other villages in th ...

municipality council from 1960 to 1964. That year the area around

was moved to

Vik Vik (Old Norse: vík) means wick or bay in Norwegian and Swedish (''vig'' in Danish), and it may refer to the following: Places Iceland *Vík í Mýrdal, a village in southern Iceland Iran *Vik, Iran, a village in Zanjan Province, Iran Norway *V ...

municipality, and so Hopperstad became a municipality council member there. He served as mayor from 1974-87. He was also a member of the county council from 1964-75 and 1980-99. Since 1992 he served as county mayor, and from 1995 as deputy county mayor.NRK County Encyclopedia of Sogn og Fjordane
accessed 30 September 2015

References

1930 births 2015 deaths Centre Party (Norway) politicians Mayors of places in Sogn og Fjordane Chairmen of County Councils of Norway {{Norway-politician-1930s-stub