Voting turnout in the elections to the European Parliament 2024 on level with the previous elections
release | European Parliament elections 9.6.2024Change
The National Coalition Party retained its position as the largest party in the elections to the European Parliament. The Left Alliance increased its support most in the elections, as it became the second largest party with 17.3 per cent of all votes cast. According to Statistics Finland, voting turnout remained on level with the previous elections.
Key selections
- The National Coalition Party and the Left Alliance were the biggest parties in the 2024 European elections.
- The Left Alliance and the National Coalition Party increased their support most, and support for the Finns Party and the Green League fell.
- The voting turnout of Finnish citizens living in Finland was 42.4 per cent.
Changes in support for the parties
Support for the Left Alliance and the Coalition Party increased from the previous elections to the European Parliament, for the Left Alliance by 10.4 percentage points and for the Coalition Party by 4.0 percentage points. In relative terms, the Finns Party (6.2 percentage points) and the Green League (4.7 percentage points) lost most votes. For the other parliamentary parties, changes in support were fairly small.
Seven parties got representatives to the European Parliament. The Coalition Party gained four seats, one more than in the previous elections. The Left Alliance gained three seats and increased its number of seats by two. The Social Democratic Party, the Centre Party and the Green League each gained two seats and the Swedish People's Party and the Finns Party one seat.
The Left Alliance's Li Andersson received the highest number of votes by far, 247,724, which was 13.5 per cent of all votes cast and 78.2 per cent of all votes cast for the party. Andersson's personal number of votes was highest in Finnish history concerning the elections to the European Parliament, 90,055 votes more than Paavo Väyrynen's number of votes in the 1996 elections.
Voting turnout on level with the previous elections
The voting percentage of people living in Finland was 42.4 which is 0.3 percentage points lower than in the 2019 elections. Once again, women voted more actively than men, the voting percentage of women living in Finland was 44.0 per cent and that of men 40.8 per cent.
The voting percentage was highest in the constituency of Helsinki (56.0%) and lowest in the constituency of Savo-Karelia (35.9%). Of municipalities, the voting percentage of people living in Finland was highest in Kauniainen (68.2%) and lowest in Hyrynsalmi (28.3%).
Detailed election results can be found in Statistics Finland's StatFin database service. Data on the voting turnout of other EU citizens and reasons for the rejection of discarded ballots will be published in a separate database release on 4 July 2024.
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