Kjell Tellander (14 March 1899 – 24 September 1968) was a Norwegian politician for the

Conservative Party The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right. Political parties called The Conservative P ...

. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from the

Market towns of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark The Market towns of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark ( no, Kjøpstedene i Nordland, Troms og Finnmark) was an electoral district for parliamentary elections in Norway. It comprised the market towns ( no, kjøpsteder) of Bodø and Narvik in Nordland c ...

in 1945. He was not listed at the conservative party ballot, but was elected by popular votes (cumulative votes, where voters are free to remove a person from the ballot and replace that name/person with another). He was not re-elected in 1949. He was born in Oslo, enrolled as a student in 1917 and graduated as cand.jur. in 1922. He was acting

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() in Tromsø from 1924 to 1926 and chief administrative officer () of

Bodø Bodø (; smj, Bådåddjo, sv, Bodö) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Bodø (which is also the capital of Nordland count ...

from 1928 to 1967. He was never involved in local politics, and felt his election to the Norwegian Parliament was a call for him as a district representative, rather than a representative for a specific political party.

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1899 births 1968 deaths Members of the Storting Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Nordland politicians Politicians from Bodø Norwegian civil servants 20th-century Norwegian politicians {{Norway-politician-1890s-stub