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Sampo Terho
Minister for European Affairs, Culture and Sports
In office 5 May 2017 – 6 June 2019
Prime Minister	Juha Sipilä
Preceded by	Timo Soini (European Affairs) Sanni Grahn-Laasonen (Education and Culture)
Succeeded by	Tytti Tuppurainen (European Affairs) Annika Saarikko (Science and Culture)
Member of Parliament for Helsinki
In office 22 April 2015 – 14 April 2019
Member of the European Parliament for Finland
In office 19 April 2011 – 27 April 2015
Succeeded by	Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner
Personal details
Born	(1977-09-20) 20 September 1977 (age 47) Helsinki, Finland
Political party	Blue Reform (2017−) Finns Party (until 2017)
Alma mater	University of Tampere
Website	Official website

Sampo Terho (born 20 September 1977 in Helsinki) is a Finnish politician who served as Minister for European Affairs, Culture and Sports. He was the chairman of Suomalaisuuden Liitto and was earlier a Member of the European Parliament.

Life and career

Terho graduated from the University of Tampere in 2003 with a Master's degree in Finnish History, and has worked as a researcher in the Finnish National Defence University. He has written a book on the history of capital punishment. Terho has also served as a peacekeeper in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Terho received the second largest number of votes on the Finns Party (then known as the True Finns) electoral list in the 2009 European Parliament elections. He succeeded Timo Soini in the European Parliament when Soini was elected to Parliament of Finland in the 2011 elections. He was re-elected in the 2014 elections.

Terho participated in the 2015 parliamentary elections and was elected to the parliament with 10,067 personal votes. His term in the European Parliament ended on 27 April, when Terho officially accepted the seat in the Finnish Parliament. He subsequently became the chairman of the Finns Party's parliamentary group. On 5 May 2017, he started as the Minister for European Affairs, Culture and Sports in Sipilä Cabinet.

In 2017, Terho ran against Jussi Halla-aho for party chairmanship, but ultimately lost the chairmanship election at the party convention on 10 June. On 13 June, Terho and 19 others left the Finns Party parliamentary group to found the New Alternative parliamentary group which was turned into a new party known as Blue Reform. After the split, the New Alternative group took the Finns Party's place in the cabinet and Terho continued as a Minister.

In 2019 parliamentary elections, Terho was a candidate of the Blue Reform in Uusimaa constituency, but was not elected. After leaving politics, Terho became a writer and published his first book Olev Roosin kyyneleet in January 2021.

Terho wrote a chamber music piece, of around five minutes long, to celebrate Finland's 100 years of independence, for the Kuopio city orchestra. The piece is arranged by Terho with conductor Heikki Elo, who together have orchestrated the piece.

Electoral history

Chairmanship election

European Parliament elections

Parliamentary elections

Municipal elections

Personal life

Terho was married with Maija Sihvonen from 2011 until their divorce in 2019. They have one child together.

References

1. Sampo TERHO. European Parliament, 2011. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
2. Sampo Terho: Silmä silmästä: Kuolemanrangaistuksen historiaa. Jyväskylä: Atena, 2007. ISBN 978-951-796-495-1
3. "Etusivu".
4. "Sampo TERHO - Parliamentary activities - MEPs - European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu.
5. "Valitut ehdokkaat Helsingin vaalipiiri". Ministry of Justice. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
6. "Hannu Takkula aloitti työnsä EU-parlamentissa". Ilta-sanomat. 29 April 2015. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
7. Sampo Terho on uusi perussuomalaisten ryhmäjohtaja, Yle 1 June 2015, accessed 1 June 2015.
8. "Presidentti nimitti kolme uutta ministeriä – perussuomalaisten uusi kulttuuriministeri nosti kärkiaiheekseen poliittisten nuorisojärjestöjen tuet". Helsingin Sanomat. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
9. "Tällainen on Uusi vaihtoehto – Nämä kansanedustajat jättivät perussuomalaiset". Yle. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
10. "Ministeri toisensa jälkeen putosi eduskunnasta – he joutuvat hakemaan uutta työtä". Iltalehti (in Finnish). 15 April 2019. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
11. "Poliittisen uran ja avioeron jälkeen". Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). 23 January 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
12. "Sampo Terho sävelsi teoksen satavuotiaalle Suomelle – Kuopion kaupunginorkesteri esittää sävellyksen marraskuussa". 5 October 2017.
13. Lötjönen, Kaisu (5 October 2017). "Kulttuuriministeri Sampo Terho sävelsi kappaleen Suomelle – Kuopion kaupunginorkesteri kantaesittää teoksen" [Minister of Culture Sampo Terho composed the song for Finland - Kuopio City Orchestra premieres the work]. Savon Sanomat (in Finnish).
14. "Kulttuuriministeri Sampo Terho ryhtyi säveltäjäksi – Kuopion kaupunginorkesteri kantaesittää Satavuotiaalle Suomelle -kappaleen". 5 October 2017.
15. "Information Service". vaalit.fi. Ministry of Justice of Finland. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
16. "Sampo Terho eroaa vaimostaan" (in Finnish). 12 August 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2021.

• 1977 births
• 21st-century Finnish writers
• Finnish male novelists
• Living people
• Politicians from Helsinki
• Finns Party politicians
• Blue Reform politicians
• Government ministers of Finland
• Members of the Parliament of Finland (2015–2019)
• Finns Party MEPs
• MEPs for Finland 2009–2014
• MEPs for Finland 2014–2019
• Finnish columnists
• University of Tampere alumni
• Culture ministers of Finland
• Sports ministers of Finland