Jone Blikra

Jone Blikra (born 11 October 1962) is a Norwegian police officer and politician for the Labour Party. A deputy to the Storting from Telemark from 2021, he has met as deputy for Terje Aasland since 2022.

Jone Blikra
Deputy Member of the Storting
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 October 2021
Deputising for	Terje Aasland (2022–)
Constituency	Telemark
Mayor of Kragerø
In office 22 October 2015 – 17 October 2019
Deputy	Charlotte Therkelsen
Preceded by	Kåre Preben Hegland
Succeeded by	Grunde Knudsen
Personal details
Born	(1962-10-11) 11 October 1962 (age 63)
Nationality	Norwegian
Political party	Labour
Occupation	Police officer Politician

Personal life

Blikra was born on 11 October 1962, a son of Kristoffer Blikra and Margit Lillemo and hails from Kragerø.^[1]

Political career

Local politics

Blikra was a member of the municipal council of Kragerø from 1999, and served as mayor of Kragerø from 2015 to 2019.^[2] He took over from Kåre Preben Hegland from the Conservative Party.^[3] Following the 2019 local elections, he was succeded by Grunde Knudsen from the Centre Party.^[4]

Parliament

He was elected deputy representative to the Storting from the constituency of Telemark at the 2021 election. He was re-elected in 2025. He has deputised for Terje Aasland since March 2022 while Aasland was government minister. In the Storting, Blikra was a member of the Standing Committee on Transport and Communications from 2022.^[1][5]

Civic career

Blikra is police officer by education and worked in the police from 1985 to 2019.^[2] From 1992 to 1993 he served as police for the United Nations Protection Force.^[2]

He chaired the Telemark chapter of the Norwegian Police Federation from 1999 to 2006.^[2] From 2012 to 2014 he held the position of lensmann (leader of a rural police district) in Drangedal.^[2]

Blikra previously chaired the board of Teater Ibsen, a theatre based in Skien.^[6]