Leif Johan Sevland
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Conservative Party of Norway
The Conservative Party is a Norwegian political party. The current leader is Erna Solberg. The party was since the 1920s consistently the second largest party in Norway, but has been surpassed by the growth of the Progress Party in the late 1990s and 2000s...
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He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Rogaland
Rogaland
is a county in Western Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. It is the center of the Norwegian petroleum industry, and as a result of this, Rogaland has the lowest unemployment rate of any county in Norway, 1.1%...
during the terms 1985–1989 and 1993–1997.
On the local level, Sevland has been mayor of Stavanger
Stavanger
Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...
since 1995. From 1987 to 1999 he was also a member of Rogaland county council
County council (Norway)
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. He chaired the party chapter in Stavanger from 1989 to 1994 and the county chapter from 1994 to 1998.
He graduated from Rogaland University College (now named University of Stavanger
University of Stavanger
The University of Stavanger is located in Stavanger, Norway and has about 8,500 students and 1200 administration, faculty and service staff. It is organised in three faculties, including two national centres of expertise. It includes 107 professors, and more than 150 of the academic staff hold...
) in 1983. Before entering politics he worked at the trotting track Forus, from 1989 to 1994 as manager.
He is married to Anne Iren Selnes.