http://www.stat.fi/til/kvaa/index_en.html Latest statistical releases from Statistics Finland on statistics Municipal elections en http://www.stat.fi/favicon.png http://www.stat.fi/til/kvaa/index_en.html 32 32 http://www.stat.fi/til/kvaa/2012/kvaa_2012_2013-03-14_tie_001_en.html 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. Thu, 14 Mar 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/kvaa/2012/kvaa_2012_2013-03-14_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/kvaa/2012/01/kvaa_2012_01_2012-10-18_tie_001_en.html All of the 16 political parties registered in the register of political parties nominated candidates. The total number of candidates in the 304 municipalities in Mainland Finland is 37,125, of whom 787 were nominated by constituency associations. Of the candidates 22,703 are men and 14,422 are women. Of the candidates 7,292 are current councillors in municipal councils and 162 are Members of Parliament. The data are based on Statistics Finland's statistics on the nomination of candidates for the Municipal elections 2012. Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/kvaa/2012/01/kvaa_2012_01_2012-10-18_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/kvaa/2008/kvaa_2008_2009-12-03_tie_001_en.html These were the first Municipal elections in which the Coalition Party rose to the position of the largest party in Finland. In the four preceding Municipal elections the Coalition Party has been in third place. The Coalition Party took 23.4 per cent of the votes cast and increased its share of votes cast by 1.6 percentage points. The total number of votes for the Coalition Party was 597,727, which is good 76,300 votes more than in the preceding Municipal elections in 2004. Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/kvaa/2008/kvaa_2008_2009-12-03_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/kvaa/2008/01/kvaa_2008_01_2008-09-30_tie_001_en.html Correction to the statistical release dated 30 September 2008. The corrections are indicated in red, previously 7,982 and 137. Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/kvaa/2008/01/kvaa_2008_01_2008-09-30_tie_001_en.html