Charlotte Therkelsen

Charlotte Therkelsen 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.

Political career

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

She was elected second deputy leader for the Red Party in April 2023.

Therkelsen was deputy mayor in Kragerø from 2015 to 2019. She succeeded Henriette Fluer Vikre in the position and served with Jone Blikra as mayor. Following the 2019 local elections, she was succeeded by Jan Petter Abrahamsen. She was elected mayor of Kragerø following the 2023 local elections, with independent Jonas Nilsen as deputy mayor.
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, and the county governor had not approved the municipal budget for 2024.