Description of the election result in the first round of the Presidential election 2000
Description of the election result in the first round of the Presidential election 2000
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Tarja Halonen won the first round of the Presidential election with 1,224,431 votes, which is 40.0 per cent of all votes cast. Halonen, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party, received the largest proportion of votes cast in seven constituencies. She gained most votes in the constituencies of Helsinki (48.1%) and Pirkanmaa (45.2%). The support for Halonen was 5.6 percentage points higher than for Aho. |
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Esko Aho , the Centre Party
candidate, was the other winner of the election. Aho received
1,051,159 votes, or 34.4 per cent of all votes cast and lost by
173,272 votes to the election winner. Aho gained the largest
proportion of votes cast in eight constituencies. In the
constituency of Oulu he got more than one half of all votes cast
(50.2%) and he also did well in the constituencies of Vaasa (49.8%)
and Lapland (48.6%). |
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The candidate of the National Coalition Party,
Riitta Uosukainen received 392,305 votes, i.e.
12.8 per cent of all votes cast. Uosukainen got the third highest
number of votes in the election, but her support was not sufficient
for the largest proportion of votes in any constituency. She was
most successful in the constituency of Kymi, where she got 20.2 per
cent of all votes cast. |
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Elisabeth Rehn, the candidate of
the Swedish People's Party, got 241,877 votes, which is 7.9 per
cent of all votes cast. Rehn succeeded best in the constituency of
Vaasa (15.9%) and in Åland (56.8%). The number of votes cast for
Rehn was now 14.1 percentage points lower than in the first round
of the Presidential election 1994. |
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Heidi Hautala received 100,740
votes, i.e. 3.3 per cent of all votes cast. Hautala was the
candidate of the Green League in the Presidential election. She was
most successful in the constituency of Helsinki, where she got 6.4
per cent of the vote. |
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Ilkka Hakalehto, the candidate of
True Finns, got 31,405 votes, which is one per cent of all votes
cast. The highest proportion of votes for Hakalehto were cast in
the constituencies of Satakunta and Pirkanmaa, where he got 1.4 per
cent of all votes cast. |
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Risto Kuisma collected a total of
16,943 votes, or 0.6 per cent of the votes cast. Kuisma was the
candidate of the Reform Group in the election. Kuisma attained the
best result in Uusimaa and Pirkanmaa (0.7%). |
Last updated 31.5.2004
Official Statistics of Finland (OSF):
Presidential elections [e-publication].
ISSN=2242-3699. 2000,
Description of the election result in the first round of the Presidential election 2000
. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 16.4.2024].
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