Kjell Edvard Helland (born 29 May 1940 in
Melhus
Melhus is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Gauldalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Melhus. Other villages include Gåsbakken, Hovin, Korsvegen, Kvål, Ler, Lundamo, ...
) is a Norwegian politician for the
Labour Party.
He was elected to the
Norwegian Parliament
The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) 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 base ...
from
Sør-Trøndelag
Sør-Trøndelag () was a county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Nord-Trøndelag county as well as the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, and Hedmark. To the west is the No ...
in 1973, and was re-elected on three occasions.
On the local level he was a deputy member of the executive committee of
Trondheim
Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, an ...
city council from 1971 to 1975.
Outside politics he spent large parts of his career in
Norway Post, before rounding off his career a labour bureaucrat in Sør-Trøndelag.
References
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1940 births
Living people
People from Melhus
Members of the Storting
Politicians from Trondheim
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
20th-century Norwegian politicians
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