Elisabeth Nauclér (born 7 March 1952 in

Eda Municipality Eda Municipality (''Eda kommun'') is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden, on the Norwegian border. Its seat is located in the town of Charlottenberg. The municipal reform of 1971 saw the forming of the present municipalit ...

) is a Swedish-born Finnish

independent politician An independent or non-partisan politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views t ...

and

jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Un ...

. Naucler was the single member of parliament for the autonomous region of

Åland Åland ( fi, Ahvenanmaa: ; ; ) is an Federacy, autonomous and Demilitarized zone, demilitarised region of Finland since 1920 by a decision of the League of Nations. It is the smallest region of Finland by area and population, with a size of 1 ...

in the

Parliament of Finland The Parliament of Finland ( ; ) is the unicameral and supreme legislature of Finland, founded on 9 May 1906. In accordance with the Constitution of Finland, sovereignty belongs to the people, and that power is vested in the Parliament. Th ...

. She sat with the mainland's

Swedish People's Party The Swedish People's Party of Finland ( sv, Svenska folkpartiet i Finland (SFP); fi, Suomen ruotsalainen kansanpuolue (RKP)) is a political party in Finland aiming to represent the interests of the minority Swedish-speaking population of Finlan ...

in the parliament. In 2015 elections she was replaced by

Mats Löfström Mats Löfström (born 27 October 1983 in Eckerö) is a Finnish politician representing Åland Centre. Löfström is the single member of parliament for the autonomous region of Åland in the Parliament of Finland. He was an Åland Centre party ...

. Nauclér's father was from

Värmland Värmland () also known as Wermeland, is a ''landskap'' (historical province) in west-central Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Dalsland, Dalarna, Västmanland, and Närke, and is bounded by Norway in the west. Latin name versions are ...

in Sweden, and her mother was

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. Nauclér earned her degree in law in

Uppsala University Uppsala University ( sv, Uppsala universitet) is a public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation. The university rose to significance durin ...

, and moved to Åland, Finland, with her Finnish husband. She began her career in the provincial administration of Åland in 1979 and continued until 2006. She was elected to the Parliament of Finland in the election of 2011 from the

centre-right Centre-right politics lean to the right of the political spectrum, but are closer to the centre. From the 1780s to the 1880s, there was a shift in the Western world of social class structure and the economy, moving away from the nobility and m ...

alliance ''Borgerlig allians'' ( C, FS, Lib., Ob.).Riksdagsvalet 18.3.2007
, Tabell 8. Resultatet för de olika listorna vid riksdagsvalen 1987-2007

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1952 births Living people People from Eda Municipality Swedish people of Norwegian descent Forest Finns Women from Åland in politics Members of the Parliament of Finland (2007–11) Members of the Parliament of Finland (2011–15) Swedish emigrants to Finland Norwegian emigrants to Finland Swedish people of Forest Finnish descent 21st-century Finnish women politicians Norwegian people of Forest Finnish descent Women members of the Parliament of Finland {{Åland-bio-stub

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