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Appendix table 1. Voting turnout by sex and constituency in Municipal elections in 1976–2012, %

Corrected on 19 March 2014. The corrected numbers are indicated in red. Several complaints on Municipal elections 2012 have been filed to administrative courts and the results of the elections have been changed by the decisions of administrative courts (errors in source data have also been corrected).
Constituency	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012
MAINLAND FINLAND	78.5	78.1	74.0	70.5	70.9	61.3	55.9	58.6	61.2	58.3
Female	78.5	78.0	74.3	71.9	72.1	62.8	57.7	60.7	63.0	59.8
Male	78.6	78.2	73.7	69.0	69.6	59.8	53.9	56.4	59.3	56.7
HELSINKI	74.6	72.1	66.3	63.3	66.4	58.1	50.9	57.1	58.9	57.4
Female	75.0	72.8	67.1	64.9	68.0	59.8	53.3	59.5	60.6	59.3
Male	73.9	71.1	65.2	61.2	64.3	55.9	48.1	54.2	56.8	55.2
UUSIMAA	77.4	76.6	71.6	67.3	69.5	59.9	53.3	57.7	59.4	57.1
Female	77.6	76.7	72.0	69.3	71.2	61.4	55.3	59.8	61.3	58.9
Male	77.3	76.4	71.2	65.2	67.7	58.2	51.1	55.3	57.5	55.1
VARSINAIS- SUOMI	78.8	79.2	75.4	73.3	73.4	63.4	56.9	60.0	62.5	59.1
Female	78.8	79.1	75.3	75.1	74.6	64.4	58.1	61.5	64.1	60.1
Male	78.8	79.3	75.6	71.4	72.1	62.3	55.5	58.5	60.9	58.0
SATAKUNTA	81.1	81.7	78.3	75.0	75.0	64.0	59.8	61.3	64.9	61.1
Female	81.0	81.2	78.1	76.0	76.2	65.1	61.2	63.1	66.1	62.3
Male	81.2	82.1	78.4	73.9	73.7	62.8	58.2	59.4	63.6	59.9
HÄME	78.9	79.1	74.4	70.2	70.9	60.8	55.4	57.7	59.9	57.4
Female	78.8	79.3	75.3	73.2	72.2	62.3	57.2	59.5	61.7	58.7
Male	79.1	79.0	73.4	66.8	69.5	59.1	53.5	55.6	58.1	55.9
PIRKANMAA	80.3	79.5	75.3	70.7	72.7	61.7	57.3	59.2	62.4	59.1
Female	80.2	79.4	75.7	72.0	73.8	63.0	59.1	60.9	64.3	60.5
Male	80.5	79.5	74.9	69.3	71.5	60.2	55.2	57.3	60.4	57.7
KYMI	77.6	77.0	73.1	69.9	70.3	60.0	54.9	57.7	60.9	57.2
Female	77.7	76.9	73.6	71.2	71.2	61.6	56.9	59.8	63.1	58.6
Male	77.4	77.1	72.7	68.6	69.4	58.3	52.8	55.6	58.7	55.8
SOUTH SAVO	76.8	76.4	73.1	69.9	68.7	59.9	56.5	58.3	62.8	59.6
Female	77.1	76.5	73.0	71.2	70.1	61.2	58.2	60.2	64.7	61.3
Male	76.5	76.3	73.2	68.6	67.1	58.4	54.7	56.2	60.8	57.7
NORTH SAVO	76.8	76.0	72.8	69.0	67.5	58.3	53.8	56.0	59.9	55.6
Female	76.9	75.7	73.6	68.7	68.8	59.7	55.8	58.3	61.8	57.1
Male	76.7	76.4	71.9	69.2	66.1	56.8	51.7	53.6	57.9	54.0
NORTH KARELIA	75.8	75.5	71.3	68.6	68.9	57.9	53.5	55.4	57.1	55.4
Female	75.2	74.2	71.4	68.8	69.8	59.3	55.1	57.5	59.2	56.8
Male	76.4	76.9	71.2	68.3	67.8	56.4	51.8	53.2	55.0	54.0
VAASA	80.9	80.9	79.5	77.3	75.9	69.0	64.4	65.6	67.5	63.3
Female	80.9	80.5	79.8	78.0	76.6	70.2	66.0	67.3	68.9	64.5
Male	81.0	81.3	79.3	76.6	75.0	67.7	62.7	63.9	66.1	62.2
CENTRAL FINLAND	80.8	80.3	75.9	72.6	70.3	60.9	56.3	57.7	62.3	58.3
Female	80.5	80.1	76.5	75.0	71.8	62.6	58.2	59.8	64.2	59.9
Male	81.0	80.4	75.3	70.0	68.7	59.1	54.2	55.6	60.4	56.6
OULU	80.1	80.7	75.8	71.2	70.4	60.1	55.1	56.0	58.7	56.5
Female	80.0	80.4	76.2	72.4	71.3	61.7	57.1	58.8	60.8	57.9
Male	80.1	81.0	75.4	70.0	69.4	58.6	53.0	53.3	56.6	55.0
LAPLAND	83.4	83.5	79.3	75.4	73.9	65.2	59.8	60.9	62.8	60.6
Female	83.1	83.5	80.1	77.0	75.4	66.8	61.8	63.2	64.8	62.1
Male	83.6	83.4	78.5	73.8	72.5	63.6	57.8	58.5	60.8	59.1

Source: Municipal Elections 2012, Review of advance voting and women's and men's success in the elections, Statistics Finland

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Updated 2.4.2013