Åge Starheim (born 23 May 1946 in Eid) is a Norwegian politician, formerly for the Progress 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 bas ...

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 2005, and represented the Progress Party in parliament for eight years. In 2013 he was made an honorary member of the Progress Party. Starheim was mayor of

Selje Selje (municipality) was a municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway and was located in the traditional district of Nordfjord. The village of Selje was the administrative center this municipality. On 1 January 2020 the municipalit ...

municipality from 1983 to 1989. From 2003 to 2007 he was a member of Sogn og Fjordane county council. In March 2015 Starheim left the Progress Party, in protest of the conditions and economic scandals in the Sogn og Fjordane branch of the party.

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1946 births Living people Progress Party (Norway) politicians Mayors of places in Sogn og Fjordane Members of the Storting 21st-century Norwegian politicians People from Eid, Norway {{Norway-politician-1940s-stub