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County Elections
The first county elections will be held as separate elections on Sunday 23 January 2022. The county elections will be held simultaneously with municipal elections starting from 2025.
According to the health and social services reform (HE 241/2020), 21 wellbeing services counties are established in Mainland Finland. In the county elections the constituency is the wellbeing services county. The City of Helsinki is not a wellbeing services county and does not belong to any wellbeing services county, so county elections are not held there. In the county elections to be held on 23 January 2022, the number of municipalities belonging to the 21 wellbeing services counties is 292 in Mainland Finland.
The highest decision-making power in the wellbeing services county is exercised by the county council, the members and deputy members of which are elected by means of county elections. The term of the council is four years.
Validity of the definition
- Valid
Source organisation
- Tilastokeskus
Jaa