Bent Gunnar Bøgsted (born 4 January 1956 in Serritslev) is a Danish politician, who is a member of the

Folketing The Folketing ( da, Folketinget, ; ), also known as the Parliament of Denmark or the Danish Parliament in English, is the unicameral national legislature (parliament) of the Kingdom of Denmark—Denmark proper together with the Faroe Islands ...

for the Danish People's Party. He was elected into parliament at the

2001 Danish general election General elections were held in Denmark on 20 November 2001.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p525 For the first time since the 1924 elections, the Social Democrats did not win the most seats. Anders ...

Background

Bøgsted graduated from Aalborg Technical School. Before being elected into parliament, Bøgsted has worked as an operator, gunsmith, farmer and shipyard worker.

Political career

Bøgsted first ran for parliament in the

, where he was elected into parliament with 4,608 votes cast for him. He was reelected in the

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

and

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

elections.Dst.dk
"Valgte kandidater og stedfortrædere, Folketingsvalg onsdag 5. juni 2019" Retrieved 16 January 2021

External links

Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget)

References

Living people 1956 births People from Brønderslev Municipality Danish People's Party politicians Gunsmiths 20th-century Danish farmers Members of the Folketing 2001–2005 Members of the Folketing 2005–2007 Members of the Folketing 2007–2011 Members of the Folketing 2011–2015 Members of the Folketing 2015–2019 Members of the Folketing 2019–2022 21st-century Danish farmers {{Denmark-politician-stub