Terje Søviknes (born 28 February 1969) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party who has served as the mayor of Bjørnafjorden since 2023.

Søviknes was the first politician of his party to become mayor of a Norwegian municipality, namely Os, Hordaland in 1999, and one of the longest-serving, retaining the position for five consecutive elections until his 2016 government appointment.

[4][5] Søviknes retained his position as mayor of Os (since 1999) and did not lose his local support after the incident.

The candidate from the Conservative Party who came in second, jokingly commented that "You don't challenge Terje Søviknes in Os.

[11] While the municipality was struggling with large deficits before Søviknes became mayor, this has since been turned into a significant surplus as of 2004.

[13] On 20 December 2016, Søviknes was appointed Minister of Petroleum and Energy in the Solberg Cabinet, succeeding fellow party member Tord Lien.

[14] In October 2017, he was found to have misinformed the Storting about a controversial petroleum project's finalisation date.

[15] During his tenure, the government approved for Norway to join the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators or Acer in 2018.

This faced heavy opposition from people against the EU, even escalating to Søviknes receiving death threats.