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Work as a city councilor

I was elected in April 2025 as a member of the Kaarina City Council for the term 2025-2029. The first city council meeting will be held on 2 June. The meeting will elect, among other things, the composition of the city government.

After Easter, we will begin political negotiations both within the SDP and with other council groups. Our group is in a strong position in these negotiations, as we increased our number of seats by 3 as election winners. The Coalition Party's lead narrowed in these elections.

Photo from the SDP election night in Kaarina
Photo from the SDP election night in Kaarina

Municipal elections results in Kaarina: 

The Coalition party (Kokoomus) 17 (0)

Social Democrats 14 (+3)

Greens 8 (+1)

Finss Party (Perussuomalaiset) 3 (-4)

Centre 3 (+1)*

Left Alliance 3 (0)

Christian Democrats 2 (-1)*

Finnish Swedish People's Party 1 (0)

*electrocal alliance

This term I am the youngest of the city councillors (19 at the start) and the next youngest are 30-year-old Suvi Kesti (kok.) and my 31-year-old party companion Veera Meltti. At the time of the election, our oldest councillors are 74-year-old Irja Gustafsson (sd.), Hannu Rautanen (G) & Hannu Hurme (kok.).

In short, the parties can be divided along the left-right axis and the conservative-liberal axis. The Left Alliance and the Social Democrats are left-wing and labor parties and liberals, with the Left Alliance being the most liberal on average. The National Coalition Party, the Finns Party, the Christian Democrats and the Finnish People's Party are right-wing parties, of which the Christian Democrats and the Finns Party are the most conservative. The Greens and the Centre Party have diverse economic policy thinking, the Greens are clearly a liberal party and the Centre Party is particularly a promoter of the issues of the rural population.

In terms of gender distribution, the council has a female majority, i.e. 31 women and 20 men. The SDP's Niina Alho (1203 votes) and Juuso Ranne (315 votes), the Coalition Party's Mikko Aaltonen (486 votes) and Mira Virta (322 votes) and the Green Party's Päivi Huhtanen (277 votes) received the most votes in the elections.