Finland Proper (electoral district)
Finland Proper (formerly Turku Province South) is an electoral district represented in the Finnish Eduskunta (parliament). It covers the administrative region of Southwest Finland, with a population of 450,968 (as of 2002). Finland Proper currently elects 17 members of the Eduskunta.
The constituency is largely urban, centred on the cities of Turku and Salo. The largest party in elections since 1999 has been centre-right National Coalition.
Current members of parliament 2011-
Swedish People's Party
- Stefan Wallin, Turku, 12 323 votes (RKP), Minister of the Environment and Minister at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs responsible for Nordic Cooperation in Matti Vanhanen's second cabinet and Mari Kiviniemi' cabinet
Centre Party
- Esko Kiviranta, Sauvo, 6 026 votes
- Annika Saarikko, Turku, 4 194 votes
Green League
- Ville Niinistö, Turku, 5 358 votes
True Finns
- Kike Elomaa, Masku, 13 130 votes
- Lauri Heikkilä, Marttila, 6 189 votes
- Maria Lohela, Turku, 4 837 votes
Leftist League
- Annika Lapintie, Turku, 7 711 votes
- Jyrki Yrttiaho, Raisio, 4 553 votes
Social Democratic Party
- Heli Paasio, Turku, 13 945 votes
- Katja Taimela, Salo, 8 467 votes
- Ilkka Kantola, Turku, 6 313 votes
- Eeva-Johanna Eloranta, Turku, 3 641 votes
National Coalition Party
- Petteri Orpo, Turku, 11 014 votes
- Anne-Mari Virolainen, Lieto, 10 034 votes
- Ilkka Kanerva, Turku, 7 817 votes
- Pertti Hemmilä, Salo, 6 410 votes
Current members of parliament 2007–2011
- Janina Andersson (Vihr.)
- Pertti Hemmilä (Kok.)
- Liisa Hyssälä (Kesk.), Minister of Social Affairs and Health in Matti Vanhanen's second cabinet
- Ilkka Kanerva (Kok.), former Minister for Foreign Affairs in Matti Vanhanen's second cabinet
- Ilkka Kantola (SDP)
- Timo Kaunisto (Kesk.)
- Esko Kiviranta (Kesk.)
- Marjaana Koskinen (SDP)
- Annika Lapintie (Vas)
- Jouko Laxell (Kok.)
- Ville Niinistö (Vihr.)
- Petteri Orpo (Kok.)
- Heli Paasio (SDP)
- Katja Taimela (SDP)
- Anne-Mari Virolainen (Kok.)
- Stefan Wallin (RKP), Minister of the Environment and Minister at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs responsible for Nordic Cooperation in Matti Vanhanen's second cabinet
- Jyrki Yrttiaho (Vas)
Election results
| Finnish parliamentary election, 2003 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |||
| National Coalition | 5 | 0 | 29.4 | 26.1 | 64,823 | -1.0% | |||
| Social Democratic | 4 | 0 | 23.5 | 24.7 | 61,367 | -1.0% | |||
| Centre | 3 | 0 | 17.6 | 17.5 | 43,552 | +0.6% | |||
| Left Alliance | 2 | 0 | 11.8 | 10.7 | 26,515 | -1.2% | |||
| Green League | 1 | 0 | 5.9 | 8.6 | 21,250 | +0.9% | |||
| Swedish People's | 1 | 0 | 5.9 | 5.3 | 13,081 | +0.3% | |||
| Christian Democrat | 1 | 0 | 5.9 | 3.9 | 9,597 | -1.0% | |||
| other groups | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3.2 | 8,184 | n/a | |||
See also
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