On Sunday, 21 new county councils, ie “welfare service areas”, were elected to Finland, which take care of health and social care and emergency services in their areas. They will start work in March.
Almost 1,400 provincial councilor seats were distributed in the election. The bill was completed on Monday morning at 2 p.m.
About 1.86 million people voted in the election.
1. Result
In the first Finnish council elections, the clear winner was the Coalition Party, which received 21.6 per cent of the vote.
The battle for second place was fierce, with the Social Democrats gaining 19.3 per cent and defeating the center by 19.2 per cent.
Basic Finns were fourth with 11.1 percent of the vote. The Left Alliance received eight per cent, the Greens 7.4 per cent, the Swedish People’s Party 4.9 per cent, the Christian Democrats 4.2 per cent and the Movement now received 1.8 per cent.
The New Power belongs to the people party received 1.3 percent of the vote nationwide, while other parties received 1.1 percent.
Eight candidates from other โindependentโ lists passed through Central Uusimaa, South Karelia and Lapland.
No other party without an MP got through.
2. Gender and age distribution of elected delegates
About 53 percent of those elected to new councils are women and 47 percent are men.
There were more women candidates in this election than in the municipal elections, but women were still a minority of the candidates.
The average age of those selected is 51 years, and the largest single age group is 35-49 years old, covering 497 complaints. The second largest age group is those aged 50โ64, for which 467 people were selected.
3. Turnout
The turnout was 47.5 percent, well below the 55.1 percent turnout in last summer’s municipal elections.
The lowest turnout was in the Vantaa and Kerava regions, which were the only council areas with a turnout of less than 40 percent.
The highest turnout was in Ostrobothnia, where 53.8 per cent of those entitled to vote voted.
The municipality of Luoto had the most votes, 66.6 per cent. In Vantaa, only 38 percent of voters.
4. Municipalities where no candidate passed
Although several county councils have a representative from each municipality in the region, many municipalities were left unrepresented in the 13 new institutions.
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5. Election voting magnets
In the Finnish electoral system, candidates with great personal support are very important. These elections were no different, and the leader of the Left Alliance Li Andersson was the most nationally supported candidate with almost 7,800 votes in Southwest Finland.
In second place was Who is Linden, which was also in Southwest Finland and received 7,701 votes.
Vice-Chairman of the Swedish People’s Party Henrik Wickstrรถm and an NCP candidate Mia Laihio both also received more than 5,000 votes. Both ran in Western Uusimaa.
Source: The Nordic Page