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Article 11
 

Electoral district committee The State Provincial Office shall, in good time before parliamentary elections, appoint an electoral district committee for each electoral district referred to in section 5. Its term of office shall continue until a new committee has been appointed. The committee is appointed by the State Provincial Office in whose province the committee meetings are held. The electoral district committee consists of a chairperson, deputy chairperson and three other members and four deputy members. Both the members and deputy members shall, if possible, represent the political parties which in the previous parliamentary elections nominated candidates and were registered in the register of political parties in the electoral district. The member or deputy member who, according to the candidate application received by the committee, have 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 electoral district committee of Helsinki and the electoral district committee of Uusimaa shall hold their meetings in the city of Helsinki, the electoral district committee of Varsinais-Suomi shall hold its meetings in the city of Turku, the electoral district committee of Satakunta shall hold its meetings in the city of Pori, the electoral district committee of Åland shall hold its meetings in the city of Maarianhamina, the electoral district committee of Häme shall hold its meetings in the city of Hämeenlinna, the electoral district committee of Pirkanmaa shall hold its meetings in the city of Tampere, the electoral district committee of Kymi shall hold its meetings in the city of Kouvola, the electoral district committee of South Savo shall hold its meetings in the city of Mikkeli, the electoral district committee of North Savo shall hold its meetings in the city of Kuopio, the electoral district committee of North Karelia shall hold its meetings in the city of Joensuu, the electoral district committee of Vaasa shall hold its meetings in the city of Vaasa, the electoral district committee of Central Finland shall hold its meetings in the city of Jyväskylä, the electoral district committee of Oulu shall hold its meetings in the city of Oulu, and the electoral district committee of Lapland shall hold its meetings in the city of Rovaniemi.