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Jørn Magdahl

Norwegian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ6321634 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jørn Magdahl (born 7 April 1950) is a Norwegian politician.

He was the leader of the Red Electoral Alliance from 1995 to 1997. He was succeeded by the more profiled Aslak Sira Myhre. He resides in Skallestad.

Editorial summary

“Jørn Magdahl” enters the record as norwegian politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jørn, Magdahl and Norwegian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1950, 1995, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1950-04-07. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jørn, Magdahl and Norwegian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Jørn Magdahl” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jørn, Magdahl and Norwegian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Sep 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6321634. VIAF identifies the subject as 100148996091359752860. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1950, 1995 and 1997.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  • Building a first chronology
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This entry incorporates text from “Jørn Magdahl” 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.