Ragnar Bøe Elgsaas (born 8 June 1971) is a former Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He finished upper secondary school at

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in 1990. The next year he was hired as a Labour Party office clerk and was elected as a deputy member of Oslo city council for 1991–1995. He worked as a campaigner for the

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and in Sosialdemokrater mot EU i Oslo for the 1994 Norwegian referendum. He was leader of the Oslo chapter of the Workers' Youth League (AUF) from 1993 until 1995, when he withdrew after the publishing of the

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in ''

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''. In 1998, he was convicted of fraud. He remained a central board member of the Workers' Youth League nationwide from 1994 to 1998. In 2000 he finished a

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degree at the

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and made a political comeback as board member of Labour's borough branch in St. Hanshaugen, and in 2001 he commenced a four-year term as leader of ''Den Socialdemokratiske Forening''. He was elected as a deputy representative to the

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from Oslo during the term 2001–2005. In the very start of his term he met as a regular representative in place of

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, who was backing down as Prime Minister. In total Elgsaas met during 56 days of parliamentary session. In 2016 he fielded as a candidate to become the new leader of

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, but lost the vote at their convention with 29–100.

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