Pirkanmaa (constituency)
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Pirkanmaa (formerly Häme North) is a constituency represented in the Finnish Eduskunta (parliament). It covers the administrative region of Pirkanmaa, with a population of 453,978 (as of 2002). Pirkanmaa currently elects 18 members of the Eduskunta.
The constituency is largely urban, centred around the traditionally working-class city of Tampere. The largest party in the 2003 election was the Social Democratic Party of Finland.
[edit] Current members of parliament
- Mikko Alatalo (Centre)
- Jukka Gustafsson (Social Democrats)
- Satu Hassi (Greens)
- Saara Karhu (Social Democrats)
- Mikko Kuoppa (Left Alliance)
- Rosa Meriläinen (Greens)
- Reino Ojala (Social Democrats)
- Heikki A Ollila (National Coalition)
- Klaus Pentti (Centre)
- Leena Rauhala (Christian Democrats)
- Tero Rönni (Social Democrats)
- Kimmo Sasi (National Coalition)
- Arto Satonen (National Coalition)
- Minna Sirnö (Left Alliance)
- Marja Tiura (National Coalition)
- Irja Tulonen (National Coalition)
- Pia Viitanen (Social Democrats)
- Jaana Ylä-Mononen (Centre)
[edit] Election results
| Finnish parliamentary election, 2003 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Net Gain/Loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/- | |||
| Social Democrats | 5 | 0 | 27.8 | 25.6 | 63,382 | +1.8% | |||
| National Coalition Party | 5 | 0 | 27.8 | 22.8 | 56,443 | -1.3% | |||
| Centre Party | 3 | +1 | 16.7 | 16.6 | 40,957 | +1.9% | |||
| Left Alliance | 2 | -1 | 11.1 | 12.5 | 63,382 | -3.5% | |||
| Green League | 2 | +1 | 11.1 | 9.7 | 24,050 | +2.7% | |||
| Christian Democrats | 1 | 0 | 5.6 | 6.1 | 14,991 | +1.5% | |||
| style="background-color: Template:Kirjava "puolue"/meta/color; width: 3px;" | | Kirjava "puolue" | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 6,265 | -0.9% | ||
| Communist Party | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.2 | 5,430 | +0.9% | |||
| other groups | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.9 | 4,732 | n/a | |||
