Kåre Øvregard (born 19 February 1933 in

Jostedal Jostedal is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1963. It was located in the Jostedalen valley in the northern part of the present-day municipality of ...

) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was elected to the

Norwegian Parliament The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years base ...

from

Sogn og Fjordane Sogn og Fjordane (; English: "Sogn and Fjordane") was, up to 1 January 2020, a county in western Norway, when it was merged to become part of Vestland county. Bordering previous counties Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland, the cou ...

in 1977, and was re-elected on two occasions. On the local level he was deputy mayor of

municipality from 1959 to 1962. In 1963, Jostedal became a part of Luster, and Øvregard was a member of Luster municipality council from 1963 to 1977 (except for 1968, 1969 and 1970), serving as deputy mayor in 1965–1967 and mayor in 1975–1977. Outside politics he graduated from Stord Teachers College in 1957, worked as a school teacher from 1957 to 1975 and ''rådmann'' in Luster from 1989 to 1994.

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* 1933 births Living people Members of the Storting Labour Party (Norway) politicians Mayors of places in Sogn og Fjordane 20th-century Norwegian politicians People from Luster, Norway {{Norway-politician-1930s-stub