European Parliament elections

Producer:	Statistics Finland
Data:	Latest release: Confirmed result. True Finns and Greens successful in the European Parliament elections 2009 12 Jun 2009 The True Finns won one seat in the European Parliament and the partys leader Timo Soini was the biggest winner with 130,715 votes cast. The next highest numbers of votes were cast for Anneli Jäätteenmäki of the Centre Party (80,156) and Mitro Repo of the Social Democratic Party (71,829). This time Finland elected 13 representatives to the European Parliament instead of the earlier 14. Six of the elected representatives have no prior experience of the European Parliament. Next release: Statistical releases will not be issued in English from these statistics in 2013.
Description:	European Parliament elections are held every five years in all Member States of the European Union. In Finland, the polling day is the second Sunday in June. 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 >>>
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Change:	Paper publication tables replaced by database tables 10 Jun 2010 Statistics Finland has discontinued the production of paper publications of statistics on elections.

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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): European Parliament elections [e-publication].
ISSN=1798-291X. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 9.5.2013].
Access method: http://www.stat.fi/til/euvaa/index_en.html.

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