Tavastia (electoral district)

Tavastia (formerly Tavastia South) is an electoral district 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 on the cities of Hämeenlinna and Lahti. The largest party in the 2011 election was the Social Democratic Party of Finland.

Current members of parliament 2011–

Municipality	Region	Most popular	National Coalition Party	Social Democratic Party of Finland	True Finns	Centre Party	Left Alliance	Greens	Christian Democrats
Seats 2011 (2007)	Päijänne Tavastia and Proper	Social Democratic Party of Finland	3 (-1)	4 (+-0)	3 (+3)	2 (-1)	1 (0)	0 (-1)	1 (1)
Asikkala	Päijänne Tavastia	True Finns ^[1]			James Hirvisaari
Forssa	Tavastia Proper	Centre Party ^[2]	Sanni Grahn-Laasonen			Sirkka-Liisa Anttila
Hartola	Päijänne Tavastia	Centre Party ^[3]
Hattula	Tavastia Proper	Social Democratic Party of Finland ^[3]
Hausjärvi	Tavastia Proper	Social Democratic Party of Finland ^[4]
Heinola	Päijänne Tavastia	Social Democratic Party of Finland ^[5]
Hollola	Päijänne Tavastia	True Finns ^[6]			Anne Loukola	Juha Rehula
Humppila	Tavastia Proper	Centre Party ^[7]
Hämeenkoski	Päijänne Tavastia	Centre Party ^[8]
Hämeenlinna	Tavastia Proper	Social Democratic Party of Finland ^[9]		Tarja Filatov Johannes Koskinen	Ismo Soukola
Janakkala	Tavastia Proper	Social Democratic Party of Finland ^[10]
Jokioinen	Tavastia Proper	Centre Party ^[11]
Kärkölä	Päijänne Tavastia	True Finns ^[12]
Lahti	Päijänne Tavastia	National Coalition Party ^[13]		Mika Kari Jouko Skinnari
Loppi	Tavastia Proper	National Coalition Party^[14]	Timo Heinonen
Nastola	Päijänne Tavastia	True Finns ^[15]
Orimattila	Päijänne Tavastia	True Finns ^[16]	Kalle Jokinen
Padasjoki	Päijänne Tavastia	True Finns ^[17]
Riihimäki	Tavastia Proper	Social Democratic Party of Finland ^[18]					Aino-Kaisa Pekonen		Päivi Räsänen
Sysmä	Päijänne Tavastia	Centre Party ^[19]
Tammela	Tavastia Proper	Centre Party ^[20]
Ypäjä	Tavastia Proper	Centre Party ^[21]

In official statistics of Finland the parliamentary elections are always compared with both the previous parliamentary elections and municipal elections. The municipal elections will be held in 2012. In Tavastia electoral district Tavastia Proper wins more parliamentary seats than Päijänne Tavastia as 1/4 of the votes for the candidates from Tavastia Proper is achieved from Päijänne Tavastia. As for the Centre Party this has been due to the expertise of the agricultural policies affecting the agrarian surroundings of the city of Lahti and as for the Social Democratic Party of Finland hard campaigning in Lahti and on its surroundings from Tavastia Proper. Both of the regions compete with each other's in the front of the state.

National Coalition Party

Timo Heinonen, Loppi, 6 533 votes
Sanni Grahn-Laasonen, Forssa, 5 866 votes
Kalle Jokinen, Orimattila, 5 277 votes
vice member of the parliament: Ilkka Viljanen, Lahti, 4 794 votes, Ilkka Viljanen was a member of the parliament 2007-2011. Mrs Tuija Nurmi did not succeed in re-election.

Social Democratic Party of Finland

Johannes Koskinen, Hämeenlinna, 7 710 votes
Tarja Filatov, Hämeenlinna, 6 780 votes
Mika Kari, Lahti, 5 269 votes
Jouko Skinnari, Lahti, 5 185 votes
vice member of the parliament: Iisakki Kiemunki, 5 164 votes

Centre Party

Sirkka-Liisa Anttila, Forssa, 5 881 votes
Juha Rehula, Hollola, 5 574 votes
vice member of the parliament: Mika Penttilä, 4 535 votes, the member of the parliament, Mr. Risto Autio did not succeed in re-election.

Left Alliance

Aino-Kaisa Pekonen, Riihimäki, 4 009 votes
vice member of the parliament: Antti Holopainen, 2 722 votes

Christian Democrats

Päivi Räsänen, Riihimäki, 7 003 votes
vice member of the parliament: Marjo Loponen, Lahti, 1 862 votes

True Finns

Anne Louhelainen, Hollola, 6 157 votes
James Hirvisaari, Asikkala, 5 530 votes
Ismo Soukola, Hämeenlinna, 5 053 votes
vice member of the parliament: Rami Lehto, Lahti, 4 761 votes

Percentage of the electorate in municipalities (votes)

Orimattila, 28,8%
Nastola, 27,9%
Hollola, 26,9%
Asikkala, 26,8%
Kärkölä, 24,9%
Padasjoki, 23,2%
Hämeenkoski, 23,1%

Loppi, 21,6%
Lahti, 21,3%
Hausjärvi, 20,9%
Hattula, 20,2%
Janakkala, 19,6%
Hartola, 17,8%
Riihimäki, 17,8%

Forssa, 17,7%
Heinola, 17,7%
Jokioinen, 17,7%
Sysmä, 17,6%
Humppila, 17,3%
Hämeenlinna, 17,2%
Ypäjä, 17,0%
Tammela, 16,2%

Current members of parliament 2007–2011

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

Old election results

Finnish parliamentary election, 2003
Party		Seats	Net Gain/Loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Social Democratic	5	+1	35.7	31.9	60,289	+3.6%
	National Coalition	3	-1	21.4	21.8	41,137	-4.5%
	Centre	3	+1	21.4	18.4	34,759	+1.6%
	Christian Democrat	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