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Parliamentary elections are held in Finland every four years. Statistics Finland produces official statistics from the elections; preliminary data are produced and made available on the Internet on the day following the actual polling day, final statistics (as a conventional paper publication) in the year following the election year.
Detailed data on parliamentary elections since 1995 can be found on Statistics Finland’s website on the specific page designated for them in the list of statistics by topic, and on elections since 1983 in the StatFin online service.
Statistics Finland receives the basic data for the elections from the Ministry of Justice’s election information system, the technical implementation of which it has assigned to TietoEnator Group. Statistics Finland’s election data system comprises four election data files: regional file, party file, candidate file and candidate register.
The main content includes: the numbers and proportions of votes cast for the parties by municipality separated into votes cast in advance voting and on the actual election day, numbers and proportions of votes cast for female candidates by party and constituency, numbers of those entitled to vote and those who voted by gender and municipality both in advance voting and on the actual election day, numbers of candidates and elected MPs by party and gender, and numbers of votes cast for all candidates and comparative figures by constituency. Statistics Finland’s election data system consists of four election files: area file, party file, candidate file and candidate register. From 2003 onwards data are also available by voting district in Statistics Finland’s StatFin online service.
Constituency, municipality group, municipality, voting district, party (included in the Register of Associations), age of candidates and elected MPs, country of residence.
The Ministry of Justice’s election information system, the technical implementation of which it has assigned to TietoEnator Group. Statistics Finland receives the basic data on the elections from that company. The data are transmitted as an electronic data transfer from the election information system already on the election night for production of preliminary statistics. After confirmation of the election results, the confirmed results are supplied to Statistics Finland for compilation of the final election statistics. Information on advance voting is collected with forms from a few dozen municipalities not using the Ministry of Justice’s voting register.
The election year of each parliamentary election.
Preliminary statistics are produced on the election night after the actual election day and they are also immediately available on the Internet. Final statistics (as a conventional paper publication) are produced in the year following the election year.
Statistics are available from 1907 onwards.
candidates, elections, Members of Parliament, parliamentary elections, parties, right to vote, voting, voting turnout
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