Knut Werner Hansen (born 22 November 1951) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He served as a deputy representative to the

Storting The Storting ( ; ) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The Unicameralism, unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years based on party-list propo ...

from

Troms Troms (; ; ; ) is a Counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. It borders Finnmark county to the northeast and Nordland county in the southwest. Norrbotten Län in Sweden is located to the south and further southeast is a shorter border with ...

between 1997 and 2009. In total he met during 1 year and 46 days of parliamentary session. He was born in

Skjervøy Municipality Skjervøy Municipality (, ; ) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Troms Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Skjervøy (village), town of Skjervøy on the island of Skjervøya ...

. He was a member of the

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Karlsøy Municipality Karlsøy () is an island List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Troms Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hansnes. Other villages include Dåfjord, Hessfjord, Karlsøya ( ...

. Following the 2011 local elections, he was elected county mayor of

and thereby also the

Troms County Municipality Troms County Municipality (, , ) is the regional governing administration of Troms county in northern Norway. It was temporarily dissolved from 2020 to 2023 when Finnmark county was merged into Troms og Finnmark county, but that was undone effe ...

, with the

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' Christine Bertheussen Killie as deputy. He was re-elected following the 2015 local elections, this time with the Liberals' Irene Dahl as deputy. Following the decision to merge Troms and

Finnmark Finnmark (; ; ; ; ) is a counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland's Lapland (Finland), Lapland region to the south, and Russia's Murmansk Oblast to the east, and by water, the Norweg ...

counties and the 2019 local elections, Ivar B. Prestbakmo was elected as county mayor of the new county.

References

1951 births Living people Deputy members of the Storting Chairpersons of County Councils of Norway Labour Party (Norway) politicians Troms politicians People from Skjervøy {{Norway-politician-1950s-stub