Töysä
Coordinates: 62 ° 38 ' N , 23 ° 49' E
Töysä [ ˈtøysæ ] is a former municipality in the South Ostrobothnian countryside in western Finland . The community is monolingual Finnish . Since January 1, 2013, Töysä has belonged to the Alavus municipality in the Kuusiokunnat administrative community .
The place covers an area of 309.67 km 2 , of which 11.86 km 2 are inland water. The formerly independent municipality had the municipality number 863. At the time the municipality was dissolved on December 31, 2012, it had 3,122 inhabitants, the population density was 10.5 inhabitants / km².
Localities
Hakojärvi, Kirkonkylä, Mutkankylä, Suutala, Tohni and Tuuri belong to the municipality.
Tuuri is home to Finland's second largest department store, Veljekset Keskinen (Keskinen Brothers) , which is visited by more than five million customers from all over Finland and parts of Russia every year .
coat of arms
Description of the coat of arms : In the blue shield a high-reaching silver six-mountain with a raised common cross of the same color .
politics
As in most rural areas of Finland, the Center Party is the strongest political force in Töysä . In the local elections in 2008 it received almost two thirds of the votes and has 14 out of 21 members of the local council, the highest decision-making body in local affairs. The two other people's parties of Finland, the conservative National Assembly Party and the Social Democrats are represented by four and three members respectively on the local council; other parties did not run in the local elections. In the 2007 parliamentary election, the right-wing populist True Finns achieved a disproportionately high result with 11.5 percent of the vote in Töysä.
| Political party | 2008 election results | Seats |
|---|---|---|
| Center Party | 66.1% | 14th |
| National rally party | 19.4% | 4th |
| Social democrats | 14.6% | 3 |
Twin cities
Töysä maintains a 1991 twinning with Tootsi in Estonia .
Sons and daughters
- Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (* 1980), athlete
- Jari-Matti Latvala (* 1985), rally driver
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maanmittauslaitos (Finnish Land Surveyors): Suomen pinta-alat kunnittain January 1, 2010 . (PDF; 199 kB) Accessed June 4, 2013 (Finnish).
- ↑ KUNTIA ASUKASLUVUT AAKKOSJÄRJESTYKSESSÄ. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 3, 2013 ; Retrieved June 4, 2013 (Finnish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Finnish Ministry of Justice: Result of the 2007 general election
- ↑ Finnish Ministry of Justice: Result of the 2008 local elections
