Järvenpää Plus is a local

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

in the municipality of

Järvenpää Järvenpää (; , ; ) is a town in Finland, located in the southern interior of the country. Järvenpää is situated in the centre of the Uusimaa region in the immediate vicinity of Lake Tuusula. The population of Järvenpää is approximately ...

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

. It was founded as Järvenpää 2000, but changed its name to Järvenpää 2000+, and in the beginning of 2012, changed its name to "Järvenpää Plus". It first participated in the municipal elections in 1988 together with Greens and unaligned candidates. In the 2004 municipal elections the party got 2186 votes (14.2%). It won seven seats in the municipal council. Its most popular candidate was Rauha-Maria Mertjärvi, who got 520 personal preference votes.

External links

www.jarvenpaaplus.fi
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