Lapland (constituency)
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Lapland is a constituency represented in the Finnish Eduskunta (parliament). It covers the administrative region of Lapland, with a population of 187,777 (as of 2002). Lapland currently elects seven members of the Eduskunta.
The constituency is largely rural, and the only cities in the area are rather small. Thus, the dominant party in the 2003 election was the rural Centre Party.
[edit] Current members of parliament
- Hannes Manninen (Centre)
- Markus Mustajärvi (Left Alliance)
- Maija Rask (Social Democrats)
- Simo Rundgren (Centre)
- Hannu Takkula (Centre)
- Esko-Juhani Tennilä (Left Alliance)
- Jari Vilén (National Coalition)
[edit] Election results
| Finnish parliamentary election, 2003 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Net Gain/Loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/- | |||
| Centre Party | 3 | -1 | 42.9 | 44.8 | 45,696 | +2.0% | |||
| Left Alliance | 2 | 0 | 28.9 | 25.6 | 26,067 | -1.5% | |||
| Social Democrats | 1 | 0 | 14.3 | 14.5 | 14,732 | +1.1% | |||
| National Coalition Party | 1 | 0 | 14.3 | 10.2 | 10,406 | +0.2% | |||
| Green League | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.1 | 2,152 | +0.3% | |||
| other groups | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 2,877 | n/a | |||
