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Jan Steinar Engeli Johansen

Norwegian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ17098009 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jan Steinar Engeli Johansen (born 12 June 1972) is a Norwegian politician.

He was elected deputy representative to the Storting from the constituency of Møre og Romsdal for the period 2017–2021 for the Progress Party. He replaced Sylvi Listhaug at the Storting from October 2017 to March 2018, thereafter Jon Georg Dale, and again Listhaug from May 2019 to January 2020.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jan Steinar Engeli Johansen” is norwegian politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Steinar, Engeli and Johansen, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 2017, 2021, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1972-06-12. For this dossier, Steinar, Engeli and Johansen is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “norwegian politician” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17098009. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1972, 2017, 2021 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jan Steinar Engeli Johansen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.