Sigbjørn Gjelsvik

On 7 June, Gjelsvik announced that the government would look into separating Kristiansand municipality after Søgne and Songdalen were merged with it, with heavy opposition from the latter's populations. He also added that the task would be given to the county governor, which would in effect be a call for a referendum on the matter. He stated: "When I now take this initiative, I will facilitate a good dialogue with the municipality and the county governor about the further process. A referendum will be held in Søgne and Songdalen in connection with the local elections in 2023. It is also important to have a good dialogue with the employees". A week later, he announced that a referendum would be held only in Søgne and Sogndalen on whether or not they should re-emerge as separate municipalities from Kristiansand.

In October, following the state budget for 2023's presentation on 6 October, Gjelsvik said it was too early to tell if too little money has been allocated for the separation of Ålesund municipality and counties who had requested to be separated. He stated: "Now we will see what comes in from the county municipalities and Ålesund. We still have not received the applications from any of them. As long as we have not received the applications, we have no basis for assessing the extent of the need for support".

Gjelsvik responded to criticism from the Red Party in December regarding the appointment of Kristoffer Thoner as an advisor at the Prime Minister's office. Thoner's appointment caused controversy due to his confidential customer lists when he worked for McKinsey & Company. Gjelsvik stated that the government would be putting forward a consultation note by spring 2023 and "prepare a possible proposal for changes to the Act on the registration of government members' positions and financial interests". The Red Party however noted that Gjelsvik would be opening to going against a parliamentary resolution by suggesting a "possible proposal".

He also served as the Centre Party's financial spokesperson until his government appointment in April 2022.

On 12 April 2022, in a minor reshuffle following Odd Roger Enoksen's resignation, Gjelsvik was appointed minister of local government, succeeding Bjørn Arild Gram who had been appointed Enoksen's successor.

Following the 2021 election, Gjelsvik was brought in by party leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, along with parliamentary leader Marit Arnstad, to assist in the subsequent government negotiations with the Labour Party following the Socialist Left Party's withdrawal from the negotiations. Gjelsvik was also mentioned as a strong candidate to become minister of finance, second to Marit Arnstad. However, after Jonas Gahr Støre rejected his appointment, Vedum himself became a more probable candidate to the post. The Labour Party had prompted that the Centre Party should rather appoint someone from their leadership to the post, a position Gjelsvik did not hold.

In 2020, he was convicted on delivering insufficient information to the buyer of a property, and ordered to pay 400,000 kr in damages.

Gjelsvik was elected to the Storting from Akershus in the 2017 election. Prior to this, he was employed as head of the secretariat for the Centre Party's parliamentary group. He successfully sought re-election to the Storting in the 2021 election.

He is the son of Kjell and Edith Gjelsvik. He married Margrethe Høydalsvik in 2011, with whom he has two children, while she also had a child from a previous marriage. They divorced in 2016, a year before the 2017 election. Høydalsvik died of serious illness in April 2019, making Gjelsvik a single father.

He has been politically active in the Centre Party and Nei til EU since 1992. In 1995, he became a member of Naustdal municipal council and Sogn og Fjordane county council. In 1996, he walked 440 km on foot from Oslo to Loen in protest against the fact that as a student in Oslo he was not allowed to cover travel expenses at municipal board meetings. The case ended with County Governor agreeing with Gjelsvik that he should have his travel expenses covered. Gjelsvik sat on the county board for the Centre Youth in Sogn og Fjordane from 1992 to 1995 and on the Centre Youth's central board from 1994 to 2000. He was the Centre Youth's political deputy leader from 1997 to 1998 and leader from 1998 to 2000. He was also leader in Nei til EU from 1999 to 2004.

Sigbjørn Gjelsvik (born 30 March 1974) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He was elected to Parliament in 2017. He has also served as minister of local government since 2022.

Gjeslvik was born in Naustdal in Sogn og Fjordane on 30 March 1974. He has studied economics and resource management at the Norwegian University of Agricultural Sciences. He currently lives in Sørum.