Töysä

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Töysä [ tøysæ ] is a former municipality in the landscape Southern Ostrobothnia in western Finland. The community is monolingual Finnish. Since January 1, 2013 Töysä belongs to the municipality Alavus in the administrative community Kuusiokunnat.

The site covers an area of ​​309.67 km2, of which 11.86 km2 inland water surface. The formerly independent municipality, the municipality had number 863 at the time of dissolution of the municipality on 31 December 2012, it had 3,122 inhabitants, the population density was 10.5 inhabitants. / Km ².

Towns

To the municipality includes the villages of Hakojärvi, Kirkonkylä, Mutkankylä, Suutala, Tohni and Tuuri.

In Tuuri, the second largest department store in Finland is Veljekset Keskinen (Brothers Keskinen ), which is visited annually by more than five million customers from all over Finland and parts of Russia.

Coat of arms

Description of coat of arms: In a blue shield of deep silver Six mountain with aufstehendem same colored common grass.

Policy

As in most rural areas of Finland is in Töysä the Centre Party, the strongest political force. In the local elections 2008, she received almost two-thirds of the votes and represents the local council, the highest decision-making authority in municipal matters, 14 of 21 deputies. The other two major parties of Finland, the conservative National Coalition Party and the Social Democrats are represented by four and three deputies in the municipal council; other parties not competed in the local elections. In the parliamentary elections of 2007 achieved the right-wing populist True Finns, with 11.5 percent of the vote in Töysä a disproportionately high earnings.

Twin Cities

Töysä maintains since 1991 a city partnership with Tootsi in Estonia.

Sons and daughters

• Olli -Pekka Karjalainen ( born 1980 ), athlete
• Jari -Matti Latvala ( born 1985 ), rally driver