Paul Svarstad (6 March 1917 – 3 April 1998) 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 born in

Innvik Innvik is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until 1965. Innvik is located in the present-day Stryn Municipality in Vestland county, encompassing about the western third of th ...

. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Sogn og Fjordane in 1965, and was re-elected on one occasion. Svarstad was involved in local politics in

and its successor municipality

Stryn Stryn is a municipality in the county of Vestland, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Nordfjord. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Stryn. The municipality is located along the innermost part of t ...

between 1952 and 1979, serving as deputy mayor of Innvik in the periods 1956–1959, 1959–1963, 1963–1964 and mayor of Stryn in 1975–1976. He had been a part of

Milorg Milorg (abbreviation of militær organisasjon – military organization) was the main Norwegian resistance movement during World War II. Resistance work included intelligence gathering, sabotage, supply-missions, raids, espionage, transport of ...

in 1943–1945.

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1917 births 1998 deaths Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting 20th-century Norwegian politicians {{Norway-politician-1910s-stub

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