Eva Margaret Nielsen (born 7 March 1950 in

Kvænangen Kvænangen ( sme, Návuotna; fkv, Naavuono) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Burfjord. The European route E6 highway goes through the municipality and ove ...

) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She 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

Finnmark Finnmark (; se, Finnmárku ; fkv, Finmarku; fi, Ruija ; russian: Финнмарк) was a county in the northern part of Norway, and it is scheduled to become a county again in 2024. On 1 January 2020, Finnmark was merged with the neighbouri ...

in 2001, and has been re-elected on one occasion. She had previously served as a deputy representative during the term 1989–1993. On the local level she was elected to the executive committee of Alta municipal council from in 1983, and later served as mayor from 1991 to 2001. She chaired the local party chapter from 1989 to 1992. During the same period she was also deputy leader of the county chapter as well as a member of the Labour Party national board.

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