Municipal elections

Producer:	Statistics Finland
Data:	Latest release: One-half of advance voters pensioners 14 Mar 2013 One-half of advance voters (49.8%) in the Municipal elections 2012 were pensioners. Of pensioners entitled to vote, 42.1 per cent voted in advance, while, on average, only one-quarter of all persons entitled to vote (24.7%) voted in advance. Advance voting was lower than this in the other groups. In all, 18.4 per cent of employed persons and 18.2 per cent of unemployed persons voted in advance. Students and those in the other inactive population voted the least often in advance. The data are based on Statistics Finland's statistics on the Municipal elections 2012. Next release: Statistical releases will not be issued in English from these statistics in 2013.
Description:	Municipal elections are held in Finland every four years. Statistics Finland produces official statistics from the elections. The preliminary statistics are published on the Internet, in the StatFin online service and on the statistics pages on municipal elections as soon as possible starting from the election night. The second data, or the final data are supplied to Statistics Finland after the election result is confirmed. After the confirmation of the election result, the confirmed data corresponding to the preliminary statistics are released on the statistics pages on the Internet and the StatFin databases are updated. Read full description >>>
Keywords:	candidates, councillors, elections, municipal elections, parties, right to vote, voting turnout, voting. Statistics by keywords >>>
Change:	Correction to the election results of the Municipal elections 2012 20 Jun 2013 Statistics Finland's result data for the Municipal elections 2012 may differ somewhat from the results reported on the election pages of the Ministry of Justice for some time.

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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Municipal elections [e-publication].
ISSN=2323-1114. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 8.10.2013].
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