Bente Thorsen (born 31 October 1958 in Karmøy) is a Norwegian politician representing the Progress Party.

She has been a member of the Storting since following the 2009 parliamentary election as Rogaland's 12th representative.

[1] Ahead of the 2009 election, Thorsen was nominated as the Progress Party's fourth candidate on the Rogaland ballot.

Following the election there was some confusion about the result because of a calculation error at Statistics Norway which showed that Karmøy mayor Kjell Arvid Svendsen (KrF) had won the 12th seat instead of Thorsen.

When this was corrected, it turned out that Thorsen had won the seat and that Svendsen was out.