Over the weekend, were the municipal elections in Finland, which triumphed Coalition Party, the Social Democrats and Centre Party.
26th October, the Finnish municipal elections went hääletusõiguslikest 61.3 percent of the people. Compared to four years ago, the election turnout was 2.7 percent higher. The three largest parties - the Conservatives, Social Democrats and Centre Party - voted for by almost 65 percent voted käinutest.
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The first light-minded right-wing Coalition Party, the major political parties who only managed to get more votes (+1.6%) than in the past and the quantity 23.4 percent of the vote.
Koonderakonnale followed by the Social Democrats Centre Party 20.1 percent and 21.2 percent of the vote. Both lost 2.9 and 2.7 percent, compared to the previous local elections.
It remains unclear which will come to talk to the media and the Estonian Centre Party and the Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen's party, "loss", every fifth person was the voice and ambassador of places around as much as the Coalition of Social Democrats and two together.
Over the Finnish political parties nominated candidates were elected as follows: 3520 Centre Party, the Social Democrats in 2071, Coalition 2018, Left Alliance 832, NCB 509, Põlissoomlased 442, Green 370 and the Christian Democrats 349 (see table).
The Greens and the small parties grew Põlissoomlased representation
If you look nationwide estimates, it was more political support, party of three consisting of a large group came after the five small parties ebavõrdsemate far apart and their support was 2.4, and 8.9 percent. Were collected from fourth place on the grant Greens 8.9 per cent, 8.8 per cent of the Left in the fifth and sixth Põlissoomlased 5.4 per cent placements.
Just Põlissoomlaste Soinit leader Timo was the winner in terms of a personal campaign, although he collected 8,211 votes in Espoo, the second best result gave the Greens Osmo Soininvaara in Helsinki from 8576 after the voting. Põlissoomlased with the Greens were also the only ones who increased their number of representatives of local governments: by 56 and 336 people. The remaining parties lost their seats (see table)
Compared to the number of men and women can be said that even though Finland is not sookvooti, we see that nearly half of women are elected osutunutest (see table).
For the first time in three elections held in the region and the success of electronic voting, and successful, it is possible to occur in the remaining constituencies. Candidates submitting the report of election expenses within two months.
Finns trusted:
| Party | Places in local government 2008 | The change in the 2004 election compared to | ||||
| Women | Men | |||||
| Centre Party | 3520 | 1204 | 2316 | -905 | ||
| Social Democrats | 2071 | 846 | 1225 | -514 | ||
| Coalition | 2018 | 721 | 1297 | -60 | ||
| Left Alliance | 832 | 272 | 560 | -155 | ||
| NCB (Swedish) | 509 | 194 | 315 | -127 | ||
| Põlissoomlased | 442 | 92 | 350 | +336 | ||
| Green | 370 | 237 | 133 | +56 | ||
| The Christian Democrats | 349 | 150 | 199 | -42 | ||
Table: Choose the Helsingin Sanomat www.hs.fi
The article is published in the 29th October 2008 Midweek







