TEK's election

The General Council is TEK’s sovereign policymaking body. The General Council comprises 70 elected members, with 66 elected from Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland and 4 elected from the Finnish Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers (TFiF). 

The General Council usually meets twice annually to decide how TEK will promote the interests of its members, what kind of member services it will provide, and how the profession will influence society as a whole.

The General Council elects the Executive Council of TEK, and determines certain financial matters such as the membership fees. Working on the General Council provides an overview of the labour market and access to a broad network of members.

Read more in Finnish and see the members of TEK's General Council

There are 70 seats on the General Council, with 66 seats filled from the electoral districts of Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland and 4 seats filled from the electoral district of the Finnish Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers (TFiF).

TFiF's district covers the whole of Finland.

The 66 seats elected by members of Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland are divided into 32 seats from the southern, 21 seats from the western, 6 seats from the eastern, and 7 seats from the northern electoral districts.

Southern electoral district: Uusimaa.
Western electoral district: Åland, Southern Ostrobothnia, Kanta-Häme, Central Ostrobothnia, Central Finland, Tampere Region, Ostrobothnia, Päijät-Häme, Satakunta and Southwest Finland.
Eastern electoral district: South Karelia, South Savo, Kymenlaakso, North Karelia and North Savo.
Northern electoral district: Kainuu, Lapland and Northern Ostrobothnia.

Links go to Finnish websites.

iTyö

Keskusta

Kokoomus

SDP

TEKin Nuoret

TFiFarna

Vasemmisto

Vihreät

Yhtenäinen TEK ja Teekkarihenki

Members' privacy is valuable to TEK and plays a key role in all operations. TEK's election is conducted in compliance with data protection legislation and with the data protection principles of the General Data Protection Regulation. We process personal data only for lawful purposes and for predetermined purposes. Information will not be disclosed for other purposes. Regarding the election, we only collect information that is necessary for the election and store it for a limited time. The data processing agreements required by the Regulation have been concluded with our partners dealing with personal data. We inform our members about the processing of personal data in the privacy statement for the General Council election (in Finnish). 

The TEK election committee is responsible for organising the election. 

For further details of upcoming elections, please e-mail election committee secretary Daniel Valtakari.

Next election will be held in spring 2023.