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Runar Sjåstad

Politician

Runar Sjåstad is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Runar Sjåstad				[sources]
Alias	Runar Sjastad · Sjåstad, Runar				[sources]
Birth date	1968-08-28				[sources]
Place of birth	Kirkenes				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Norway				[sources]
Country	Norway				[sources]
Citizenship	Norway				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Runar				[sources]
Last name	Sjåstad				[sources]
Political association	Arbeiderpartiet · Norwegian Labour Party				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q11998610				[sources]
Position	County Governor of Troms og Finnmark (2024) · Storting (member, 2017-) · county mayor of Finnmark (2007-2017) · deputy member of the Parliament of Norway (2001-2005) · deputy member of the Parliament of Norway (2009-2013) · 3 more...				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Norwegian politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Storting	2017-10-01	-
Member of the Parliament of Norway	2017-10-01

Data sources

Norway Members of the Storting254

Current and recent members of the Norwegian Storting, the national legislature.

Norway · Stortinget

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,647

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,936

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,358

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata355,710

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: no-storting-402fefc8f279d84d538be77a5dcbd24ea2d5e31b · evpo-c1ea3f70-1442-46bc-97fe-0d667f96ab62

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