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Appendix table 2. Persons entitled to vote and those who voted by nationality in Municipal elections 1996–2012

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).
Mainland Finland	Total	Finnish citizens	Other EU-citizens, citizens of Iceland and Norway	Other foreign citizens
Persons entitled to vote
1996	3,941,019	3,896,450	11,734	32,835
2000	4,014,611	3,956,450	14,516	43,645
2004	4,099,864	4,024,820	29,634	45,410
2008	4,191,662	4,095,291	43,296	53,075
2012	4,303,064	4,166,110	61,617	75,337
Persons who voted
1996	2,417,057	2,407,809	3,754	5,494
%	61.3	61.8	32.0	16.7
2000	2,242,811	2,230,683	4,418	7,707
%	55.9	56.4	30.4	17.7
2004	2,403,260	2,391,800	5,307	6,153
%	58.6	59.4	17.9	13.5
2008	2,565,413	2,546,513	9,033	9,867
%	61.2	62.2	20.9	18.6
2012	2,507,244	2,480,428	11,748	15,068
%	58.3	59.5	19.1	20.0

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