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14we -- Number of candidates by party and information on current MPs, municipal councillors, county councillors and MEPs in Municipal elections, 2004-2025

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Statistics Finland, municipal elections
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Number of candidates

County elections
The candidates are nominated for the entire wellbeing services county, voters only vote for the candidates in their own wellbeing services county and the result is calculated for each wellbeing services county.

Number of candidates

Parliamentary elections:
Parliamentary election candidates can be nominated by registered political parties and constituency associations established by at least 100 persons entitled to vote. When nominating candidates two or more political parties have the right to form an electoral alliance by mutual agreement. Correspondingly, two or more constituency associations have the right to form a joint electoral list. Each party, electoral alliance or joint electoral list can nominate a maximum of 14 candidates in each electoral district. If, by virtue of a Government decision, more than 14 candidates are elected from an electoral district, the number of candidates may be at most the number of candidates elected from that electoral district.

Number of candidates

Municipal elections:
Municipal election candidates can be nominated by political parties and a minimum of 10 persons entitled to vote, who have established a constituency association. When nominating candidates two or more political parties have the right to form an electoral alliance by mutual agreement. Correspondingly, two or more constituency associations have the right to form a joint electoral list. A party, an electoral alliance or a joint electoral list can nominate at most one and a half times as many candidates as there are places for elected representatives.

Number of candidates

European Parliamentary elections:
European Parliamentary election candidates can be nominated by registered political parties and constituency associations established by at least 2,000 persons entitled to vote. When nominating candidates two or more political parties have the right to form an electoral alliance by mutual agreement. Correspondingly, two or more constituency associations have the right to form a joint electoral list. Each party, electoral alliance or joint electoral list can nominate a maximum of 20 candidates in each country.

Number of candidates

Presidential elections:
Candidates may be nominated in Presidential elections by 1) a political party, from whose list of candidates at least one representative was elected in the most recent Parliamentary elections or 2) at least 20,000 persons entitled to vote, who have established a constituency association. A political party or a constituency association may nominate only one candidate. Political parties and constituency associations may nominate the same candidate.

Members of Parliament

Members of Parliament = The information reported by the municipality in the data supplied
(based on the time before the Municipal elections 2017, thus not necessarily the results of the previous Parliamentary elections)

County councillor

The information reported in the data supplied (based on the time before the Municipal elections, thus not the results of the previous County elections)

Councillors

Councillor = The information reported by the municipality in the data supplied
(based on the time before the Municipal elections 2017, thus not the results of the previous municipal elections)

Member of the European Parliament

The information reported in the data supplied (based on the time before the Municipal elections, thus not the results of the previous European parliament elections)