Gisle Handeland (born 1943) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. From 1990 to 1995, during the third cabinet Brundtland, Handeland was private secretary (today known as political advisor) / state secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Communications. In 1999 Handeland was elected county mayor (''fylkesordfører'') of

Hordaland Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Municipal ...

, as the first from the Labour Party to hold this position. He lost the position in

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, but remained a member of the county council. He is also a member of the board of the

Western Norway Regional Health Authority Western Norway Regional Health Authority ( no, Helse Vest RHF) is a state-owned regional health authority responsible for operating the hospitals in the counties of Rogaland and Vestland in Norway. Based in Stavanger the authority operates five ...

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He hails from

Fedje Fedje is an island municipality in the Nordhordland region of Vestland county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Fedje. The traditional economic activity of the inhabitants is fishing. The municipality is ...

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1943 births Living people Labour Party (Norway) politicians Hordaland politicians Chairmen of County Councils of Norway {{Norway-politician-1940s-stub