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Gisle Handeland (born 1943) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.From 1990 to 1992 during the third cabinet Brundtland Handeland was appointed private secretary (today known as political advisor) in the Ministry of Transport and Communications.In 1999 Handeland was elected county mayor (fylkesordfører) of Hordaland as the first from the Labour Party to hold this position. He lost the position in 2003 but remained a member of the county council.