Thor Gystad was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

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He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus

Akershus

- Geography :The county is conventionally divided into the traditional districts Follo and Romerike, which fill the vast part of the county, as well as the small exclave west of Oslo that consists of Asker and Bærum...

 in 1969, and was re-elected on two occasions.

On the local level he was a member of Ullensaker

Ullensaker

Ullensaker is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Jessheim. It has a population of approximately 30,000 inhabitants...

city council from 1951 to 1971 and 1979 to 1983, serving as mayor from 1959 to 1969. From 1959 to 1969 he was also a member of Akershus county council, serving as county mayor from 1963 to 1969.