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North Savo (parliamentary electoral district)

electoral district in Finland

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ6304515 ↗
Source-derived summary

North Savo (formerly Kuopio) was an electoral district represented in the Finnish Eduskunta (parliament). Since 2013 it has been part of the Savo-Karelia electoral district. It covered the administrative region of North Savo, with a population of about 251,000 (as of 2002). North Savo currently elects ten members of the Eduskunta.

The constituency is largely rural, and the only major city in the area is Kuopio. The largest party in the 1999, 2003 and 2007 elections was the Centre Party.

2015–2019 members of parliament

Markku Eestilä (NCP)

Sari Essayah (CD)

Hannakaisa Heikkinen (Centre)

Hannu Hoskonen (Centre)

Elsi Katainen (Centre)

Kimmo Kivelä (Finns)

Kari Kulmala (Finns)

Seppo Kääriäinen (Centre)

Krista Mikkonen (Greens)

Riitta Myller (SDP)

Merja Mäkisalo-Ropponen (SDP)

Pentti Oinonen (Finns)

Sari Raassina (NCP)

Markku Rossi (Centre)

Matti Semi (Left)

Anu Vehviläinen (Centre)

2019–2023 members of parliament

Sanna Antikainen (Finns)

Markku Eestilä (NCP)

Seppo Eskelinen (SDP)

Sari Essayah (CD)

Hannakaisa Heikkinen (Centre)

Hannu Hoskonen (Centre)

Hanna Huttunen (Centre)

Marko Kilpi (NCP)

Krista Mikkonen (Greens)

Merja Mäkisalo-Ropponen (SDP)

Minna Reijonen (Finns)

Matti Semi (Left)

Anu Vehviläinen (Centre)

Tuula Väätäinen (SDP)

Jussi Wihonen (Finns)

Current members of parliament 2007–

Hannakaisa Heikkinen (Kesk.)

Elsi Katainen (Kesk.)

Jyrki Katainen (Kok.)

Kari Kärkkäinen (KD)

Seppo Kääriäinen (Kesk.)

Pentti Oinonen (PS)

Kari Rajamäki (SDP)

Markku Rossi (Kesk.)

Erkki Virtanen (Vas)

Tuula Väätäinen (SDP)

KD = Christian Democrats

Kesk. = Centre

Kok. = National Coalition

PS = True Finns

SDP = Social Democrats

Vas.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “North Savo (parliamentary electoral district)” as electoral district in Finland. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2002, 1999, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1962. The account is most persuasive where North, Savo and parliamentary can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as electoral district in Finland. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6304515. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013, 2002, 1999 and 2003.

Critical limits

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How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “North Savo (parliamentary electoral district)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.