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Lauri Heikkilä

Finnish politician (1957–2024)

Lauri Heikkilä


Member of the Parliament of Finland from Finland Proper
In office 20 April 2011 – 21 April 2015

Personal details
Born	(1957-06-24)24 June 1957 Rymättylä, Finland
Died	25 March 2024(2024-03-25) (aged 66) Strasbourg, France
Political party	Finns Party
Alma mater	University of Turku
Occupation	special researcher, physicist, farmer
Website	www.lauriheikkila.fi

Lauri Juho Antti Heikkilä (24 June 1957 – 25 March 2024) was a Finnish politician, representing the Finns Party. He was elected to the Parliament of Finland in April 2011. He was a senior researcher and a lecturer of microelectronics at the University of Turku, but he also did farming.^[1]

In the 2015 parliamentary election, Heikkilä got 3,658 votes and was not re-elected.^[2]

From 1996 to 2011 Heikkilä was much involved in the making of Finns Party platforms.^[3]

Heikkilä died of a sudden illness during a conference trip in Strasbourg, on 25 March 2024, at the age of 66.^[4]

References

^ "Fyysikko - Lauri Heikkilä". www.lauriheikkila.fi. Archived from the original on 2011-04-21.
^ "Varsinais-Suomi - ehdokkaat". Yle. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
^ Tähti, Tuomas (December 15, 2018). "Lauri Heikkilä puhuu!". tuomastahti.wordpress.com (in Finnish). Retrieved October 3, 2019.
^ "Lauri Heikkilä, 66, on kuollut äkillisesti" (in Finnish). Ilta-Sanomat. 28 March 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024.