Lapland constituency

Constituency 13: Lapland
country	Finland
Regions	Lapland
Seats in parliament	7th

The Lapland constituency (constituency 13, constituency 15 from 1962 to 2011) is one of 13 Finnish constituencies for elections to the Finnish parliament . It includes the Finnish landscape of Lapland . In the parliamentary elections, each constituency has a certain number of seats in parliament according to its population, the constituency of Lapland currently has 7 seats.

History of the constituency

In the first parliamentary election in 1907 , what was then the province of Oulu was divided into three constituencies, Südoulu , Nordoulu and Lapland. Lapland was the largest constituency in Finland in terms of area, but the only one in which only one MP could be elected. In 1920 the Petsamo area was added. In 1938 the province of Oulu was divided, the previous Lapland was enlarged to include Peräpohjola , which had previously been part of the Nordoulu constituency . The constituency of Lapland has been adapted to the new provincial borders. Since the new province had significantly more inhabitants, Lapland has had several MPs since then.

Elected parties in the constituency

See also: List of political parties in Finland

Until 1917 the Grand Duchy of Finland was part of Russia . During this time the Finnish Party (SP) and the Young Finnish Party (NSP) were successful. In 1917 the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) was successful in Lapland for the first time. In the period after the First World War, the National Progressive Party (ED), the National Collection Party (KOK) and the Landbund (ML) were particularly successful. The Landbund was renamed the Center Party (KESK) in 1965 . In 1945, the Democratic Union of the Finnish People (SKDL) won mandates in the constituency for the first time , which in 1990 became part of the Left Alliance (VAS). The People's Party of Finland (KP), from 1965 the Liberal Party (LKP), has only had one MP from Lapland with Tuure Salo . The same applies to the Communist Democratic Alternative (DV), which only existed for a short time . The only MP from Lapland was Esko-Juhani Tennilä , who was also successful once as an independent applicant, otherwise ran for SKDL / VAS. Salo is listed in the election tables under “other”, as is Tennilä as a candidate for the DV and as an independent. The Peasants' Party (SMP), the Party of the Unity of the Finnish People (SKYP) since 1975 , was able to send a representative in the 1970s, the Perussuomalaiset (PS, True Finns or Basic Finns , since 2012 The Finns ) received one seat each in 2011 and 2015. 2017 the only PS MP from Lapland changed to the spin-off Blue Future (ST), which her successor also joined.

Current MPs

Lapland constituency 1907–17

Since the 2015 election, Lapland has sent 4 members of the Center Party (KESK) to parliament, namely Markus Lohi and Eeva-Maria Maijala since the 2011 election and Katri Kulmuni since the 2015 election . In 2015, Mikko Kärnä replaced Paavo Väyrynen , who, since he had not been given a ministerial office, had decided to remain in the European Parliament. The Left Alliance (VAS) has been represented by Markus Mustajärvi since 2003 and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) by Johanna Ojala-Niemelä since 2007 . Hanna Mäntylä , who had been a member of the (True) Finns (PS) since 2011 , formed the New Alternative faction with other members of the PS in June 2017 , which was also constituted as a party in November 2017 under the name Blue Future (ST) . At the end of June 2017, Mäntylä resigned to work for the Council of Europe . Her successor is Matti Torvinen , who also joined the ST. The National Collection Party (KOK), which has almost always been able to send a representative from Lapland in the elections since the Second World War, received nothing in the 2015 election.

elections

Lapland constituency 1917–38

1907 to 1938

In the first elections in 1907/08 and 1913 Yrjö Halonen from the Finnish Party and in 1909/10/11 and 1916 Aleksanteri Fränti from the Young Finnish Party were alternately elected. In 1917, the Social Democrat Ville Kiviniemi was successful in the last election under Russian sovereignty. The first Lapland MP in independent Finland was again Fränti, who stood for the National Progressive Party . His successor, also from the Progress Party , was Arthur Aspelin in 1922 . In 1924 and 1927 Aukusti Neitiniemi was elected twice by the National Collection Party. In the elections from 1929 to 1936 candidates of the Landbund were successful, namely Matti Hannula and Lauri Kaijalainen .

Political party	Distribution of seats in elections from 1907 to 1936
	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911	1913	1916	1917	1919	1922	1924	1927	1929	1930	1933	1936
SP	1	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
NSP	-	-	1	1	1	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
SDP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
ED	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
COOK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-
ML	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	1
all in all	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

1939 to 1979

1939 was the first election in enlarged Lapland in which several MPs were elected. Lauri Kaijalainen from Landbund (ML) was re-elected, and the Landbund from Lapland sent Uuno Hannula , Antti Junes , Janne Koivuranta and Matti Lahtela to Helsinki, the SDP was successful with Olli Kekäläinen and Martti Peltonen . Because of the wars ( Winter War , Continuation War and Lapland War ), Parliament remained in office until 1945. Toivo Salakivi moved up for Hannula in early 1945.

The Communists, first admitted in the 1945 election, were also successful in Lapland. With Eino Tainio and Reino Uusisalmi , they provided two MPs. Since the latter died after a few months, Elsa Karppinen moved up for him. Both SDP MPs lost their seats, and Heikki Pesonen was elected in their place . For the first time since 1927 the National Collection Party (KOK) was given a seat again, which Erkki Koivisto took . Kaijalainen and Lahtela from the Landbund (ML) were re-elected, Koivuranta and Salakivi lost their seats, but Martti Miettunen , who later became Prime Minister, and Markus Niskala were newly elected to parliament.

The 1948 election did not result in a shift in the parties among the Lappish MPs. Toivo Friman replaced Karppinen at the SKDL, while Vilho Väyrynen took over for the SDP . At the Landbund , Kaijalainen was replaced by Koivuranta.

In the 1951 election , the SKDL was able to improve at the expense of the ML. Anna-Liisa Korpinen was a new member of parliament, Koivuranta lost his seat. In the 1954 election , Lapland now had a ninth seat, Jussi Pöykkö moved to parliament for the ML. In the 1958 election , the SKDL was again able to improve itself at the expense of the ML and Eemeli Lakkala moved into parliament. At ML, Matti Lahtela, Martti Miettunen and Jussi Pöykkö ended their time in parliament, but Olavi Lahtela and Akseli Paarman followed.

In 1962 the ML was able to make up for its loss from 1958, Eino Sääskilahti came to parliament. The SKDL lost one seat. Vilho Suosalo was newly elected, Lakkala and Friman were eliminated. The SDP lost its one seat, which Vilho Väyrynen had held since 1948. New to parliament for two legislative terms was Tuure Salo from the People's Party of Finland (KP), which in 1965 merged with the Liberal Federation to form the Liberal People's Party (LKP).

In 1966 , Lapland was allowed to send 10 members for one legislative period. SDP and SKDL could use this. The SDP had another Lappish representative in Urho Knuuti , and Pekka Salla came to parliament for the SKDL. Friman managed to move back in, Suosalo lost his seat. The KOK lost its seat and Erkki Koivisto had to leave parliament after 21 years. Veikko Hanhirova was a new member of parliament for the Center Party (KESK), as the Landbund was called since 1965 .

In the 1970 election , Lapland lost one of its seats. With Artturi Niemelä , the Finnish Farmers' Party (SMP) succeeded in entering parliament. With Jouni Mykkänen, the KOK again had a representative in Helsinki. In compensation, the Liberals lost their seat, the KESK had to do without Sääskilahti and Paarman, who had not been elected in 1966, but had moved up for Lahtela in 1969. The 23-year-old Paavo Väyrynen , later Foreign Minister, MEP and multiple presidential candidate, was elected to parliament for the first time. Toivo Friman's career ended at the SKDL and that of Eino Tainio after 25 years in parliament. Niilo Koskenniemi moved into parliament.

The early elections in 1972 did not bring about any major changes in Lapland. At the SDP Urho Knuuti was replaced by Aimo Ajo , at the KESK Mikko Jokela replaced Veikko Hanhirova, who was re-elected in 1975 , which means that the KESK again provided four of the nine MPs from Lapland. Mikko Ekorre had already succeeded Anna-Liisa Korpinen at SKDL in 1974 . Shortly before the election, Lauri Impiö replaced Jouni Mykkänen at KOK. Esko-Juhani Tennilä was newly elected for the SKDL.

In 1979 Lapland lost another seat and only had eight members. KESK lost this seat, and Hannele Pokka came to parliament for Pekka Vilmi and Veikko Hanhirova . Aimo Ajo (SDP), Lauri Impiö (KOK), Niilo Koskenniemi, Mikko Ekorre and Esko-Juhani Tennilä (SKDL) as well as Paavo Väyrynen and Mikko Jokela (KESK) were re-elected.

Political party	Distribution of seats in elections from 1939 to 1979
	1939	1945	1948	1951	1954	1958	1962	1966	1970	1972	1975	1979
ML / KESK	5	4th	4th	3	4th	3	4th	4th	3	3	4th	3
SKDL	-	2	2	3	3	4th	3	4th	3	3	3	3
SDP	2	1	1	1	1	1	-	1	1	1	1	1
COOK	-	1	1	1	1	1	1	-	1	1	1	1
SMP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-
other	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-
all in all	7th	8th	8th	8th	9	9	9	10	9	9	9	8th

Since 1983

In the general election in 1983 came Esko-Juhani Tennilä not for SKDL, but could defend his seat as an independent and joined in the Parliament of the Group of SKDL on. Mikko Ekorre was not re-elected because the SKDL could only win one seat, which Niilo Koskenniemi defended. Aimo Ajo was re-elected for the SDP and Lauri Impiö for the KOK. At KESK, Paavo Väyrynen and Hannele Pokka were re-elected, Mikko Jokela was replaced by Seppo Pelttari .

In 1987 Esko-Juhani Tennilä ran for the newly founded Democratic Alternative (DV) and was elected. The distribution of the other seats between the parties did not change, but Niilo Koskenniemi was replaced by Asko Apukka from the SKDL , Keijo Jääskeläinen succeeded Lauri Impiö at KOK , Kimmo Sarapää was elected for KESK and replaced Mikko Jokela.

In 1990 the SKDL, DV and other groups formed the Left Alliance (VAS). In 1991 Esko-Juhani Tennilä and Asko Apukka were re-elected for the VAS. Maija Rask replaced Aimo Ajo at SDP after 19 years. The KOK lost its seat, which Keijo Jääskeläinen had held. The KESK was able to improve to five seats. Seppo Pelttari was re-elected. Hannele Pokka was also re-elected, but gave up the seat of parliament in 1994 to become governor of the province of Lapland. Paavo Väyrynen had decided to run in the constituency of Uusima , where he was also elected. Maria Kaisa Aula , Timo E. Korva and Lasse Näsi came to parliament for the KESK . Ossi Korteniemi took over for Hannele Pokka in 1994.

The 1995 election cost the KESK another seat. Only Korteniemi and Aula were re-elected, Hannes Manninen and the later European Parliamentarian Hannu Takkula moved to the Reichstag. With Osmo Kurola , kok was able to send another representative from Lapland to Helsinki. The MPs from SDP and VAS were re-elected. Asko Apukka resigned in 1998, however, and was succeeded by Matti Huutola .

The 1999 election did not change the distribution of the Lappish seats among the parties. The only change in personnel was Jari Vilén Osmo Kurola as the representative of the KOK.

Although KESK was the winner of the 2003 election across Finland , it lost one seat in Lapland as the constituency only had seven seats due to population growth. Maria Kaisa Aula and Timo E. Korva, who moved up in 2001 for Ossi Korteniemi who was ill, were not re-elected. Simo Rundgren came to Parliament for this. At VAS, Matti Huutola was replaced by Markus Mustajärvi , the longest-serving Finnish MP from Lapland in 2017. In 2004, Tatja Karvonen replaced Hannu Takkula at KESK , who moved to the European Parliament.

The 2007 election resulted in no changes to the parties in Lapland, but Ulla Karvo replaced Jari Vilén as the representative of the KOK, Paavo Väyrynen, who was running again in Lapland, and Janne Seurujärvi moved to replace Tatja Karvonen and Simo Rundgren for the KESK Reichstag, and Johanna Ojala-Niemelä became the new SDP representative in place of Maija Rask.

The overwhelming election success of the '' Perussuomalaiset '' (PS, True Finns or Basic Fins , since 2012 The Finns ) in the 2011 election helped Hanna Mäntylä to get her first mandate. In Lapland this was at the expense of the leftist alliance , whose draft horse Esko-Juhani Tennilä had not run again after 36 years in parliament and his seat was lost as a result. At KOK, Ulla Karvo was replaced by Heikki Autto ; at KESK, Paavo Väyrynen, Hannes Manninen and Janne Seurujärvi were replaced by Simo Rundgren, Markus Loh and Eeva-Maria Maijala .

Although the 2011 defeat had not cost KESK any of its Lappish seats, it was able to gain one seat from the partial recovery in the 2015 election . Katri Kulmuni was newly elected to parliament; Paavo Väyrynen, who gave up his seat after a few days, was replaced by Mikko Kärnä . Heikki Autto (KOK) lost his seat. In 2017 Matti Torvinen replaced Hanna Mäntylä. Both had recently switched from PS to the Blue Future .

Political party	Distribution of seats in elections since 1983
	1983	1987	1991	1995	1999	2003	2007	2011	2015
KESK	4th	4th	5	4th	4th	3	3	3	4th
SKDL / VAS	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	1	1
SDP	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
COOK	1	1	-	1	1	1	1	1	-
PS	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1
other	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
all in all	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	7th	7th	7th	7th

List of MEPs elected in Lapland

The following elected representatives for Lapland left office prematurely: Uuno Hannula moved to the Lapland provincial government in 1944. Reino Uusisalmi died in 1945 just a few months after the election. Markus Niskala died in 1963 during the legislative period. Olavi Lahtela died in 1968 after collapsing at a hearing in parliament. In 1974 Anna-Liisa Korpinen moved to the management of the steel company Rautaruukki , where she was responsible for occupational safety. Jouni Mykkänen joined Yleisradio , Finland's public broadcaster , at the end of 1974 . Hannele Pokka became the first woman governor of the province of Lapland in 1994. In 1998 Asko Apukka became director of the Social Insurance Office of the Finnish Social Insurance Agency Kansaneläkelaitos . Ossi Korteniemi resigned in 2001 because he was seriously ill, from which he died in 2002. Hannu Takkula became a member of the European Parliament in 2004 . Hanna Mäntylä left parliament in 2017 to work for the Council of Europe .

Aleksanteri Fränti was again in parliament for the constituency of Südoulu from 1933 to 1936 . Paavo Väyrynen was 1991-95 and a few days 1999 for the constituency of Uusimaa in Parliament.

The party abbreviations are based on the Finnish names of the parties, these are listed above .

Surname	Political party	from	to	annotation
Aimo Ajo	SDP	1972	1991
Asko Apukka	VAS	1987	1998	until 1990 SKDL, successor Matti Huutola
Arthur Aspelin	ED	1922	1924
Maria Kaisa auditorium	KESK	1991	2003
Heikki Autto	COOK	2011	2015
Mikko Ekorre	SKDL	1974	1983	Successor for Anna-Liisa Korpinen
Aleksanteri Fränti	NSP	1909	1922	1909–1914, 1917 and 1919–1922, from 1919 ED
Toivo Friman	SKDL	1948	1970	1948-1962 and 1966-1970
Yrjö Halons	SP	1908	1917	1908-1909 and 1914-1917
Veikko Hanhirova	KESK	1966	1979	1966-1972 and 1975-1979
Matti Hannula	ML	1929	1930
Uuno Hannula	ML	1939	1944	Successor Toivo Salakivi
Matti Huutola	VAS	1998	2003	Successor for Asko Apukka
Lauri Impio	COOK	1975	1987	Successor for Jouni Mykkänen
Mikko Jokela	KESK	1972	1987
Antti Junes	ML	1939	1945
Keijo Jääskeläinen	COOK	1987	1991
Lauri Kaijalainen	ML	1930	1948
Mikko Kärnä	KESK	2015		Successor for Paavo Väyrynen
Elsa Karppinen	SKDL	1945	1948	Successor for Reino Uusisalmi
Ulla Karvo	COOK	2007	2011
Tatja Karvonen	KESK	2004	2007	Successor for Hannu Takkula
Olli Kekäläinen	SDP	1939	1945
Ville Kiviniemi	SDP	1917	1918
Urho Knuuti	SDP	1966	1972
Erkki Koivisto	COOK	1945	1966
Janne Koivuranta	ML	1939	1951	1939-1945 and 1948-1951
Anna-Liisa Korpinen	SKDL	1951	1974	Successor Mikko Ekorre
Ossi Korteniemi	KESK	1994	2001	Successor for Hannele Pokka, replacement for Timo E. Korva
Timo E. Korva	KESK	1991	2003	1991–1995 and 2001–2003, successor for Ossi Korteniemi
Niilo Koskenniemi	SKDL	1970	1987
Katri Kulmuni	KESK	2015
Osmo Kurola	COOK	1995	1999
Matti Lahtela	ML	1939	1958
Olavi Lahtela	KESK	1958	1968	until 1965 ML, successor Akseli Paarman
Eemeli Lakkala	SKDL	1958	1962
Markus Lohi	KESK	2011
Eeva-Maria Maijala	KESK	2011
Hannes Manninen	KESK	1995	2011
Hanna Mäntylä	PS	2011	2017	from 2017 ST , successor Matti Torvinen
Martti rental tunes	ML	1945	1958
Markus Mustajärvi	VAS	2003
Jouni Mykkänen	COOK	1970	1974	Successor Lauri Impiö
Let Näsi	KESK	1991	1995
Aukusti Neitiniemi	COOK	1924	1929
Artturi Niemelae	SMP	1970	1975	from 1975 SKYP
Markus Niskala	ML	1945	1963	Successor Pekka Vilmi
Johanna Ojala-Niemelae	SDP	2007
Akseli Paarman	KESK	1958	1970	1958–1966 and 1969–1970, until 1965 ML, successor for Olavi Lahtela
Martti Peltonen	SDP	1939	1945
Seppo Pelttari	KESK	1983	1995
Heikki Pesonen	SDP	1945	1948
Hannele Pokka	KESK	1979	1994	Successor Ossi Korteniemi
Jussi Pöykkö	ML	1954	1958
Maija Rask	SDP	1991	2007
Simo Rundgren	KESK	2003	2015	2003–2007 and 2011–2015
Eino Sääskilahti	KESK	1962	1970	until 1965 ML
Toivo Salakivi	ML	1945	1945
Pekka Salla	SKDL	1966	1975
Tuure Salo	LKP	1962	1970	until 1965 KP
Kimmo Sarapää	KESK	1987	1991
Janne Seurujärvi	KESK	2007	2011
Vilho Suosalo	SKDL	1962	1966
Eino Tainio	SKDL	1945	1970
Hannu Takkula	KESK	1995	2004	Successor Tatja Karvonen
Esko-Juhani Tennilä	VAS	1975	2011	until 1983 SKDL, 1983 independent, 1987 DV
Matti Torvinen	ST	2017		Successor for Hanna Mäntylä
Reino Uusisalmi	SKDL	1945	1945	Successor Elsa Karppinen
Paavo Väyrynen	KESK	1970	2015	1970–1991, 2007–2011 and 2015, successor Mikko Kärnä
Vilho Väyrynen	SDP	1948	1962
Jari Vilén	COOK	1999	2007
Pekka Vilmi	KESK	1963	1979	Successor for Markus Niskala, ML until 1965

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Väyrynen tilittää: Asetuin ehdolle vain päästäkseni ulkoministeriksi - "Tappio Suomen ulkopolitiikalle" (Finnish: Väyrynen: I was only nominated as foreign minister - "Loss for Finnish foreign policy" ) in Helsingin Sanomat , 29 May 2015, accessed December 17, 2017
2. ^ Uuno Hannula (Finnish), Finnish Parliament, accessed December 17, 2017
3. ↑ Anna-Liisa Korpinen (Finnish), Finnish Parliament, accessed December 17, 2017
4. ↑ Jouni Mykkänen (Finnish), Finnish Parliament, accessed December 17, 2017
5. ↑ Hannele Pokka (Finnish), Finnish Parliament, accessed December 17, 2017
6. ↑ Aleksanteri Fränti (Finnish), Finnish Parliament, accessed December 17, 2017
7. ↑ Paavo Väyrynen (Finnish), Finnish Parliament, accessed December 17, 2017