Lapland is a Finnish constituency represented in the eduskunta. It covers the administrative region of Lapland, with a population, as of its most recent accessible calculation in 2002, of 187,777. Lapland currently elects seven members to the eduskunta.The constituency is largely rural, and the only cities in the area are small. Thus, the dominant party has traditionally been the rural Centre Party. The second party that holds major influence in the area is the SKDL/Left Alliance. The other two major Finnish parties, the social democratic SDP and conservative NCP have usually received one of the seats in the constituency. The NCP has often allied with the Christian Democrats.
Election | Member | Member | Member | Member | Member | Member | Member | |||||||
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April 2015 | Katri Kulmuni | Markus Lohi | Mikko Kärnä | Eeva-Maria Maijala | Johanna Ojala-Niemelä | Hanna Mäntylä | Markus Mustajärvi | |||||||
Matti Torvinen | ||||||||||||||
April 2019 | Heikki Autto | Kaisa Juuso | ||||||||||||
April 2023 | Sara Seppänen | Seat abolished 6 seats | ||||||||||||
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