Søren Fredrik Voie (born 20 March 1949, in

Vestvågøy Vestvågøy is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Lofoten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Leknes. Some of the villages in the municipality include Ballstad, Borg, ...

) is a Norwegian politician for the

Conservative Party of Norway The Conservative Party or The Right ( nb, Høyre, nn, Høgre, , H; se, Olgešbellodat) is a liberal-conservative political party in Norway. It is the major party of the Norwegian centre-right, and was the leading party in government as part o ...

. 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 Nordland in 2001, but was not re-elected in 2005. He served in the position of deputy representative during the terms 1997–2001 and 2005–2009. On the local level Voie was a member of the executive committee of

municipality council during the term 1979–1983, and then served as mayor from 1983 to 1987. From 1987 to 1995 he was also involved in Nordland county council. He was a member of the Conservative Party central committee from 1998 to 2002. Outside politics Voie has had a diverse career. He started in the fishing industry, before being a high school teacher from 1976 to 1983, bank director in

Sparebank1 SpareBank 1 is a Norwegian alliance and brand name for a group of savings banks. The alliance is organised through the holding company ''SpareBank 1 Gruppen AS'' owned by the participating banks. In total the alliance is Norway's second largest ...

Nord-Norge from 1988 to 1992, administrative chief officer (''rådmann'' in Vestvågøy from 1992 to 1999 and director at the

Nord-Trøndelag University College Nord-Trøndelag University College (Norwegian: Høgskolen i Nord-Trøndelag) or HiNT was a Norwegian university college located throughout the county of Nord-Trøndelag. HiNT had about 5,500 students and 440 employees in 2013. In January 2016, th ...

from 1999 to 2001.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Voie, Soren Fredrik 1949 births Living people Members of the Storting Mayors of places in Nordland Conservative Party (Norway) politicians 21st-century Norwegian politicians People from Vestvågøy