Presidential elections

Producer:	Statistics Finland
Data:	Latest release: Sauli Niinistö and Pekka Haavisto made it to the second round of the Presidential election 2012 26 Jan 2012 In the first round of the Presidential election, the two candidates who received the highest numbers of votes were Sauli Niinistö and Pekka Haavisto. Sauli Niinistö, the candidate of the National Coalition Party received 1,131,254 votes, thus winning the first round with 37.0 per cent of all votes cast. Pekka Haavisto, the candidate of the Green League was second in the first round of the Presidential election with 18.8 per cent of all votes cast. He gained 574,275 votes. The difference between the two candidates with most votes cast was 556,979 votes and 18.2 percentage points. Next release: 10 Feb 2012
Description:	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. Read full description >>>
Change:	Result tables of Presidential election 2006 added to the database tables 22 Dec 2011 Tables concerning the results of the Presidential election 2006 have been added to the database tables on 22 December 2011.

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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Presidential elections [e-publication].
ISSN=2242-3699. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 9.2.2012].
Access method: http://www.tilastokeskus.fi/til/pvaa/index_en.html.

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