Charlotte Therkelsen

Charlotte Therkelsen (born 29 July 1981) is a Norwegian politician representing the Red Party. She has been a deputy representative to the Storting since 2021, the party's second deputy leader and the mayor of Kragerø since 2023.

Charlotte Therkelsen
Mayor of Kragerø
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 October 2023
Deputy	Jonas Nilsen
Preceded by	Grunde Wegar Knudsen
Second Deputy Leader of the Red Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 April 2023
Leader	Bjørnar Moxnes Marie Sneve Martinussen
Preceded by	Silje Josten Kjosbakken
Deputy Member of the Storting
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 October 2021
Constituency	Telemark
Deputy Mayor of Kragerø
In office 22 October 2015 – 17 October 2019
Mayor	Jone Blikra
Preceded by	Henriette Fluer Vikre
Succeeded by	Jan Petter Abrahamsen
Personal details
Born	(1981-07-29) 29 July 1981 (age 43)[1]
Nationality	Norwegian
Political party	Red
Occupation	Politician

Political career

Parliament

A member of the Red Party, Therkelsen was elected deputy representative to the Storting from the constituency of Telemark for the period 2021–2025.^[1]

Deputy party leader

She was elected second deputy leader for the Red Party in April 2023.^[2]

Local politics

Therkelsen was deputy mayor in Kragerø from 2015 to 2019.^[3][4] She succeeded Henriette Fluer Vikre in the position and served with Jone Blikra as mayor.^[5] Following the 2019 local elections, she was succeeded by Jan Petter Abrahamsen.^[6][7] She was elected mayor of Kragerø following the 2023 local elections, with independent Jonas Nilsen as deputy mayor.^[8][9]

In September 2024, she expressed that the municipality of Kragerø was in a difficult economic situation, when Kragerø had been included in the Register for Governmental Approval of Financial Obligations (the ROBEK list), and the county governor had not approved the municipal budget for 2024.^[10][11]