The 2009 European Parliament election in Finland was the election of the

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from

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to the

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in 2009. Finland uses the

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, where voters vote for an individual, but the individual's vote is counted primarily for the party and secondarily for the candidate. Parties receive seats in proportion to their share of the vote, and candidates from those parties are selected based on the votes they received individually. In European Parliament elections, the whole country forms a single constituency.

Result

Compared to the 2004 European Parliament election in Finland, the three major parties

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, Centre Party, and

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(SDP) each lost a seat. Moreover, the most popular candidate on the SDP list was the

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. The Left Alliance lost their only seat. The Greens gained a seat, the

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regained the seat they had lost in the previous period, and the

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achieved their first entry to the European Parliament with one seat. The

Swedish People's Party The Swedish People's Party of Finland ( sv, Svenska folkpartiet i Finland (SFP); fi, Suomen ruotsalainen kansanpuolue (RKP)) is a list of political parties in Finland, political party in Finland aiming to represent the interests of the minority ...

kept their single seat.Party results
(Ministry of Justice Finland 10 June 2009) No extraparliamentary party gained any seats.

Elected MEPs

* Ville Itälä (National Coalition Party) * Sirpa Pietikäinen (National Coalition Party) * Eija-Riitta Korhola (National Coalition Party) *

Anneli Jäätteenmäki Anneli Tuulikki Jäätteenmäki (born 11 February 1955) is a Finnish politician who was the first female Prime Minister of Finland from 17 April 2003 to 24 June 2003. From 2004 until 2019, she served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) ...

(Centre Party) *

Hannu Takkula Hannu Aapa Takkula (born 20 November 1963) is a Finnish politician and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Finland. He is a member of the Centre Party of Finland, Centre Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Eu ...

(Centre Party) *

Riikka Manner Riikka Pakarinen (née Pakarinen, formerly Manner; born August 24, 1981 in Varkaus, Finland) is a Finnish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2014. She represents the Centre Party. She was elected to the ...

(Centre Party) *

(Social Democratic Party, independent) *

Liisa Jaakonsaari Liisa Anneli Jaakonsaari (born 2 September 1945) is a Finnish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 until 2019. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists ...

(Social Democratic Party) *

Heidi Hautala Heidi Anneli Hautala (born 14 November 1955) is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Finland. She is a member of the Green League, part of the European Green Party. She is currently a Member of the European Parl ...

(Green League) *

Satu Hassi Satu Maijastiina Hassi (born 3 June 1951) is a Finnish politician, and former Member of the European Parliament for the Green League. She served as the Minister of Environment and Development Co-Operation in Paavo Lipponen's second cabinet betw ...

(Green League) *

Timo Soini Timo Juhani Soini (born 30 May 1962) is a Finnish politician who is the co-founder and former leader of the Finns Party. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Finland from 2015 to 2017 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2015 to 2019. He was el ...

(Finns Party) *

Sari Essayah Sari Miriam Essayah (born 21 February 1967 in Haukivuori) is a Finland, Finnish retired race walking, racewalker and a politician, former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and Member of Parliament since 2015. She is the president of the Finn ...

(Christian Democrats) *

Carl Haglund Carl Christoffer ”Calle” Haglund (born 29 March 1979 in Espoo) is the CEO of Veritas, a Finnish Pension insurance company, and a former Finnish politician, former chairman of the Swedish People's Party and the former Minister of Defence. He w ...

(Swedish People's Party) Suomen europarlamentaarikot seuraavalle kaudelle
Helsingin Sanomat 7 June 2009

Most voted-for candidates

References

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