Finnish municipal election, 2012 was held in Finland on 28 October with advance voting between 17 and 23 October 2012. 9,674 municipal council seats were open for election in 304 municipalities. The number of councillors decreased by over 700 compared to the previous election due to the merging of several municipalities. The term of the elected councillors will begin on 1 January 2013.

Funds

In Finland, candidates have to declare their campaign funding. 15% of the declarations did not arrive in time.

Competing parties

* Centre Party * National Coalition Party (NCP) *

Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties For ...

(SDP) * True Finns * Green League * Left Alliance * Swedish People's Party (SPP) * Christian Democrats *

Pirate Party Pirate Party is a label adopted by Political party, political parties around the world. Pirate parties support Civil and political rights, civil rights, direct democracy (including e-democracy) or alternatively Participatory democracy, partici ...

* Communist Party * Change 2011 *

Independence Party Independence Party may refer to: Active parties Outside United States * Independence Party (Egypt) * Estonian Independence Party * Independence Party (Finland) * Independence Party (Iceland) * Independence Party (Mauritius) * Independence Part ...

* Workers Party *

Communist Workers' Party – For Peace and Socialism Communist Workers' Party – For Peace and Socialism ( fi, Kommunistinen Työväenpuolue – Rauhan ja Sosialismin puolesta, KTP) is a communist party in Finland. It was founded in 1988 to secure the existence of an independent Marxist–Leninist ...

For the Poor For the Poor (Finnish: ''Köyhien Asialla'') is a Finnish political party, not situated anywhere on the traditional political map. It was founded in November 2002. The party is one of the smallest in Finland, as it has no seats in either the Parli ...

* Freedom Party

Electoral method

The D'Hondt method is used in the election. The size of the municipal council or city council depends on the population of the municipality: Helsinki is the only city in the last category and Espoo the only city in the second-to-last category.

National results

Finnish municipal elections, 2012 result by constituency

Turnout was 58.3%, lower than in the previous municipal election.

References

External links

The Elections website of the Ministry of Justice
{{Finnish Elections Municipal elections in Finland 2012 elections in Finland October 2012 events in Europe