Elisabeth Nauclér (born 7 March 1952 in

Eda Municipality Eda Municipality () 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 municipality through the ...

) is a Swedish-born Finnish

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and

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

Åland Åland ( , ; ) is an Federacy, autonomous and Demilitarized zone, demilitarised region of Finland. Receiving its autonomy by a 1920 decision of the League of Nations, it is the smallest region of Finland by both area () and population (30,54 ...

in the

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. She sat with the mainland's

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in the parliament. In 2015 elections she was replaced by

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. Nauclér's father was from

Värmland Värmland () is a ''Provinces of Sweden, landskap'' (historical province) in west-central Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Dalsland, Dalarna, Västmanland, and Närke, and is bounded by Norway in the west. Name Several Latinized version ...

in Sweden, and her mother was Norwegian. Nauclér earned her degree in law in

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, 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 is the set of right-wing politics, right-wing political ideologies that lean closer to the political centre. It is commonly associated with conservatism, Christian democracy, liberal conservatism, and conservative liberalis ...

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 (2007–2011) Members of the Parliament of Finland (2011–2015) 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 Politicians from Åland {{Åland-bio-stub

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