Constituency electoral committee

The Regional State Administrative Agency shall, in good time before parliamentary elections, appoint a constituency electoral committee for each electoral district referred to in section 5. The term of office of a constituency electoral committee continues until a new committee is appointed. The committee is appointed by the Regional State Administrative Agency in whose operational area the committee meetings are held.

The constituency electoral committee consists of a chairperson, deputy chairperson and three other members and four deputy members. Both the members and deputy members shall, insofar as possible, represent those political parties entered in the Party Register which in the previous parliamentary elections nominated candidates in the electoral district. A member or a deputy member who, according to a candidate application received by the committee, has been nominated as a candidate by a party or a constituency association cannot participate in the work of the committee in the elections in question.

The constituency electoral committee of Helsinki and the constituency electoral committee of Uusimaa hold their meetings in Helsinki, the constituency electoral committee of Varsinais-Suomi in Turku, the constituency electoral committee of Satakunta in Pori, the constituency electoral committee of Åland in Maarianhamina, the constituency electoral committee of Häme in Hämeenlinna, the constituency electoral committee of Pirkanmaa in Tampere, the constituency electoral committee of Southeast Finland in Mikkeli, the constituency electoral committee of Savo- Karjala in Kuopio, the constituency electoral committee of Vaasa in Vaasa, the constituency electoral committee of Central Finland in Jyväskylä, the constituency electoral committee of Oulu in Oulu, and the constituency electoral committee of Lapland in Rovaniemi.