Offical finnish Presidental election result thread

[Gollevainen]

After advance elections (held some week before actual election day)
the reuslts are (~41 % votes counted):
Tarja Halonen the sitting president(united left, sosial democrats and former people's democrats) 49.1%
Sauli Niinistö (conservatives) 21.8%
Matti Vanhanen, sitting prime minister (agral conservatives) 20.4%
and marginal votes for marginal partyes...

I will update soon as the offical results comes. If non of the participants get over 50% votes, the second round with two best scoring candinates will be held after two weeks...

So if anyone have anything to question after finnish politics im happy to answer:)

[ger_mark]

spammer :)

oh no social democrats are still alive noooooooooo

[Soyuz]

Did you vote in this election Gollevainen? what sort of electoral system do they use in Finland then, Proportional Representation?

oh no social democrats are still alive noooooooooo


Give me a social democrat over a Christian democrat any day!

[Soyuz]

Sorry about the double post:( trying to delete one but I can't figure out how!:mad:

Ps is anyone else finding that the site is very slow at the moment?

[Gollevainen]

yeah the server is running slow...

In finland we have direct election system, counting simply that who gets most votes wins the election. Electional districts functions solely as determing the place where you go to vote, but it has no affect on the results.

I voted, (supraisingly to myself) Finnish Green/enveriomantal party candinate...I had to decide wheter her or this rigth wing populist, but i choose the leftyer choice. I have recently been very dissapointed of finnish sosialists and how their red colour have paled away. The old people's democratics dident put their own candinate but went behind the sosial-democrates, which was shamefull to them, considering our history, but in seccond round I shall go behind Tarja Halonen, the Sosial-democrates candinate and current president. Shes earned her seccond term and always wins the conservatives candinate

the almoust final results are: Halonen 46.4 %, Niinistö 23,9 % and Vanhanen 18,7. Heidi Hautala whom i voted got 3.4 %...

[sumdud]

Eh..... So Finnland is more of a democracy than the US.........

I thought you said once that Finland was....authoritarian, or at least dat u don vote on some things......

[Gollevainen]

Have I? I don't remember it. Basicly we are quite democratic, tought i'm bit sceptic towards the undirect elections of our parliament elctions becouse it's fafours the big partyes and leaves most of the smaller ones wihtout change to get thru....

[MIGleader]

yeah, thats kinda like the u.s and singapore. big parites always end up on top, and the small ones are just there to steal votes from the big fish, which is how we ended up with bush and not gore.(Nader really should stop running...what is he thinking? Hes casuing the condorcet effect on the good candidates!!)

[Gollevainen]

Alright, as the seccond round was held today, i'm going to give updates of how things are going:


At the moment 51 % of all votes are counted and Tarja Halonen (left) leads 53% against 47 % Sauli Niinistö (right)

More updates will come as the election prosess goes onwards...

EDIT: The end results have now arrived and Tarja Halonen won with 52.8 prosent. Niinistö got 48.2 prosent. Tarja will continue another six years for our president

[Ender Wiggin]

What exactly are the platforms for the major parties in finland? Also, whats up with your spelling today generally you have damn good english spelling.

[Gollevainen]

My spelling?? It changes everyday...:rolleyes: :cool:

But by what you mean whit platforms? political ideologyes or support rates, supporter basis??

[sumdud]

Thinks that's what he means, the standings on issues, ideologies, supporter basis.

And six years?? O_O That's a long term.....

[Gollevainen]

six years almoust too short, if you compare it to the fact thayt UKK Kekkonen stayed in the office from 1956 to 1983 and became a synonyme for the word president (queting the famous misshap of one newsreporter that read the daily headlines as 'President has been once again elected as Republic's Kekkonen...') Our political system is just slowly recovering from the strong presidental system...

but if you want to know what tha partyes are, here is little briefing..

As in anywere else in europe, our working class is (or attleast was) political active and the trades/labour unions are political organisations as well.
the biggest party is the Sosial democratic party (SDP) whit some 25 % of votes in general. Its basicly a british labour type of party with ideology and actions. Other left partyes are the Leftist Union, former communists, with some 10% of votes. Its a sorry excuse for grandious finnish communist party, whose split colored our political life trough the cold war but due that split, its support has dropped from the 25% to 10%. Althougth its offical program is nonsense mambo jambo, most of its members are hard line communists still "struggleling for freedom" and fighting the system. My hats off to them (too bad most flaoboant charrecters arent from my election district)

Then there is the greens with similar program and policy as other european greens/enveriomentals and some 8% of votes.

The Right side is divided by national coalition (old/neo conservatives, big money's party) party with some 20% of votes and witht he Central party (former agrar union) wich is countryside party with 24-25% of votes. These two are bitter rivals are seldomly have find their way into same government. Small partyes are the nationalistic/rigthwing populists 'Basic Fins' -party, Christian democrats (its rather weird that thougth our country side is still infested with religious nutcases, their party is rather tiny) and the swedsih speaking people's party wich is offcourse for the biggest money as the swedes traditionally have been the owning up class and elite...

The parialiment is elected every four year, after the elections, the winning party starts to formulate thre government, usually its SDP with one of the rigthwing partyes (they were rigthwing government 1990-1994 and everything was fucked up in our country during that time...) And since 1990 our goverments have usually sitted trough whole election period, as in the past they changed as fast they disaproved Moscov or the president...

main political issues envolps around the rift between welfarestate and new liberal economics that have contaminated minds of all power eleite, including ones of the Social democrats, agrar policy and EU benefits, and anything related to these...