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Municipal 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 municipal elections since 1992 can be found on Statistics Finland’s website on the specific page designated for them in the list of statistics by topic, and since 1976 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 election results by municipality: the numbers and proportions of votes cast for the parties separated into votes cast in advance voting and on the actual election day, council seats gained by the parties, numbers and proportions of votes cast for female candidates and numbers of elected female councillors by party, numbers of those entitled to vote and those who voted by gender, numbers of advance voters by gender. From 2004 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 councillors, nationality and 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 the company mentioned. 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 Municipal election.
Preliminary statistics are produced on the election night after the actual polling 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 1921 onwards.
candidates, councillors, elections, municipal elections, parties, right to vote, voting turnout, voting
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