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Presidential elections are held in Finland every six years as direct, popular elections. 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 presidential elections (since 1994) can be found on Statistics Finland’s website on the specific page designated for them in the list of statistics by topic, and since 1994 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 two election data files: regional file and candidate file.
The statistics consist of the first and second rounds of the elections of the President of the Republic. The main content includes: the numbers and proportions of votes cast for the presidential candidates separated into votes cast in advance voting and on the actual election day, information on the numbers of those entitled to vote and those who voted by gender, numbers of advance voters by gender. Statistics Finland’s election data system consists of two election files: area file and candidate file. The data are public.
Constituency, municipality group, municipality, party (included in the Register of Associations).
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 the first and second rounds of each presidential election.
Preliminary statistics on the first and second rounds of the elections 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 1925 onwards.
candidates, elections, parties, presidential election, right to vote, voting, voting turnout
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