Tove Linnea Brandvik (born 15 November 1968) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She was born in Levanger as a daughter of joiner Birger Bach and teacher Olaug Langdal. She took lower secondary education in Leirfjord from 1981 to 1984, and upper secondary education in

Sandnessjøen Sandnessjøen is a town and the administrative centre of Alstahaug Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. Sandnessjøen was granted special trading privileges in the late 1600s and it received town status in 1999. Sandnessjøen is located on ...

from 1984 to 1987. She then attended the Norwegian School of Management in Bergen and Trondheim from 1987 to 1990 and 1994 to 1997. She chaired her local party chapter from 2002 to 2004, and is a member of the Labour Party central committee from 2007. She was mayor of Lindås municipality from 2003 to 2007, and then a municipal council member in the executive committee from 2007 to 2011. She served as a deputy representative to the

Parliament of Norway 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 Hordaland during the terms 2005–2009 and 2009–2013. During the second term she held a regular seat since

Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen Anne-Grete Hjelle Strøm-Erichsen (born 21 October 1949 in Bergen) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She served as Minister of Defence from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2012 to 2013. She also served as Minister of Health and Care Ser ...

was a member of

Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet was the Government of Norway from 17 October 2005 to 16 October 2013. It was a coalition between the Labour Party, the Socialist Left Party and the Centre Party, known as the Red–Green Coalition. On 9 September ...

. She was a member of the

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. Brandvik has been a board member of ''Hordaland Olje og Gass'' from 2003 to 2007, chaired the Regional Council for Nordhordaland and Gulen since 2007 and been a member of many municipal boards. She has also been a judge in

Nordhordland District Court Nordhordland District Court ( no, Nordhordland tingrett) was a district court in Norway serving the Nordhordland and Midhordland (except for the city of Bergen) in Hordaland county, as well as Gulen Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county. The c ...

. She is the first member of parliament in Norway to utilise a wheelchair.

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1968 births Living people People from Levanger Labour Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting Mayors of places in Hordaland BI Norwegian Business School alumni Politicians with disabilities 21st-century Norwegian politicians Wheelchair users {{Norway-politician-1960s-stub