Tavastia (constituency)
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Tavastia (formerly Tavastia South) is a constituency represented in the Finnish Eduskunta (parliament). It covers the administrative regions of Tavastia Proper and Päijänne Tavastia, with a combined population of about 364,000 (as of 2002). Tavastia currently elects 14 members of the Eduskunta.
The constituency is largely urban, centred around the cities of Hämeenlinna and Lahti. The largest party in the 2003 election was the Social Democratic Party of Finland.
[edit] Current members of parliament 2007–
- Sirkka-Liisa Anttila (Kesk.)
- Risto Autio (Kesk.)
- Tarja Filatov (SDP)
- Timo Heinonen (Kok.)
- Matti Kauppila (Vas)
- Jari Koskinen (Kok.)
- Johannes Koskinen (SDP)
- Tuija Nurmi (Kok.)
- Kirsi Ojansuu (Vihr.)
- Juha Rehula (Kesk.)
- Päivi Räsänen (KD)
- Jouko Skinnari (SDP)
- Satu Taiveaho (SDP)
- Ilkka Viljanen (Kok.)
- KD = Christian Democrats
- Kesk. = Centre
- Kok. = National Coalition
- SDP = Social Democrats
- Vihr. = Greens
[edit] Election results
| Finnish parliamentary election, 2003 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Net Gain/Loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/- | |||
| Social Democrats | 5 | +1 | 35.7 | 31.9 | 60,289 | +3.6% | |||
| National Coalition Party | 3 | -1 | 21.4 | 21.8 | 41,137 | -4.5% | |||
| Centre Party | 3 | +1 | 21.4 | 18.4 | 34,759 | +1.6% | |||
| Christian Democrats | 1 | 0 | 7.1 | 9.8 | 18,425 | +1.0% | |||
| Left Alliance | 1 | 0 | 7.1 | 8.9 | 16,760 | +0.0% | |||
| Green League | 1 | 0 | 7.1 | 6.0 | 11,416 | -0.3% | |||
| other groups | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3.2 | 6,068 | n/a | |||
