Kinnula

Kinnula is a municipality with 1767 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in Central Finland. It is located 160 km north-west of Jyväskylä in the hills of the Suomenselkä.

Kinnula lies on the border of the historic landscapes Savo and Ostrobothnia. The community was in 1850 from the western part of the municipality Lohtaja ( Ostrobothnia ) and the eastern part of Viitasaari ( Savo ) formed. The parish church of the village, a wooden cruciform church was built from 1864 to 1867.

The parish village of the municipality lies on a bay on the north shore of Lake Ylä- Jäppä, still belong to the community the villages Hakkaraniemi, Hiilinki, Jääjoki, Kangaskylä, Markokylä, Matkusjoki, Muhola, Myllykylä, Niemenkylä, Rantakylä, Saarenkylä, Silkkiperä, and Urpila. Kinnula is rural, hilly landscape is characterized by numerous small lakes and streams. In the north, the municipality share of the national park Salamajärvi.

Around one third of the workforce is employed in agriculture and forestry, more than half in trade and administration.

Policy

As in most rural areas of Finland is in Kinnula the Centre Party, the largest party. In the local elections 2008, she received nearly half of the votes and represents the local council, the highest decision-making body for local affairs, 8 out of 17 deputies. The second largest group is the conservative National Coalition Party with six seats, followed by the Social Democrats with three seats.