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Runar Sjåstad

Runar Sjåstad
Member of the Storting
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 October 2017
ConstituencyFinnmark
Deputy Member of the Storting
In office
1 October 2001 – 30 September 2017
ConstituencyFinnmark
County Mayor of Finnmark
In office
22 October 2007 – 25 October 2017
DeputyAnn-Solveig Sørensen
Bente Haug
Ragnhild Vassvik Kalstad
Preceded byKirsti Saxi
Succeeded byRagnhild Vassvik Kalstad
Personal details
Born (1968-08-28) 28 August 1968 (age 56)
Political partyLabour
Children3

Runar Sjåstad (born 28 August 1968) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He currently serves as a member of parliament for Finnmark since 2017 and was previously a deputy member between 2001 and 2017. He also served as county mayor of Finnmark between 2007 and 2017.

Political career

Parliament

He served as a deputy representative from Finnmark between 2001 and 2017, having been re-elected in 2005, 2009 and 2013.[1] He was elected as a regular representative from Finnmark in 2017 and was re-elected in 2021.

In parliament, he served as Secretary to the Storting Presidency between 2017 and 2021. He concurrently sat on the Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment. Currently he sits on the Preparatory Credentials Committee and sat on the Standing Committee on Labour and Social Affairs between 2021 and 2023. From 2023 he sits on the Standing Committee on Business and Industry.[1]

Local politics

In the 2007 elections he was elected as the county mayor of Finnmark.[2] He was re-elected in 2011[3] and 2015.[4][5] He resigned in 2017 when he was elected to parliament and was succeeded by his deputy, Ragnhild Vassvik Kalstad.[6]

Personal life

Sjåstad is married and has three children. He and his family reside in Vadsø Municipality.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Runar Sjåstad" (in Norwegian). Storting.
  2. ^ "Runar Sjåstad" (in Norwegian Bokmål). Flickr. 22 October 2007. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Sjåstad gjenvalgt" (in Norwegian Bokmål). Radio Nordkapp. 18 October 2011. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  4. ^ "Ny fylkesvaraordfører i Finnmark" (in Norwegian Bokmål). NRK Sápmi. 7 May 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Kaotisk start for fylkestinget" (in Norwegian Bokmål). iFinnmark. 15 October 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Vassvik er ny fylkesordfører" (in Norwegian Bokmål). Radio Nordkapp. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
  7. ^ "Runar Sjåstad" (in Norwegian Bokmål). Arbeiderpartiet. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
Political offices
Preceded by County Mayor of Finnmark
2007–2017 		Succeeded by


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