European elections in Finland 2004

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(in %)

 %

30th

20th

10

0

23.7

23.4

21.2

10.4

9.1

5.7

4.3

2.2

COOK

KESK

SDP

VIHR

VAS

RKP

KD

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 1999

 % p

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

-1.6

+2.1

+3.3

-3.0

± 0.0

-1.1

+1.9

-1.7

COOK

KESK

SDP

VIHR

VAS

RKP

KD

Otherwise.

The 2004 European elections in Finland took place on June 13, 2004. It was carried out in the course of the EU- wide European elections in 2004 , with 14 of the 732 seats in the European Parliament in Finland . In addition to the seven parties represented in the European Parliament, seven other parties took part in the election.

voter turnout

After the turnout in the European elections in 1999 was only 31.4%, this increased in 2004 by 8 percentage points to 39.4%.

Electoral system

Fourteen parties and / or electoral associations were available for election.

Finland uses the open list system for elections , which determines the order of candidates not only by parties. The voters do not vote for a party themselves, but only for its candidates. The votes that all candidates of a party received together are used to determine the amount of seats that a party will receive. The D'Hondt method is used for this determination . Within a party, those candidates who have received the most votes become MPs. In this procedure, candidates who have received many votes but whose party does not have enough seats can lose to candidates with fewer votes but more free seats.

Election result

The National Collection Party and the Finnish Center Party both achieved a result of just under 23%. The National Collection Party was able to maintain its leadership over the Center Party with a margin of 0.34 percentage points. The Social Democratic Party of Finland remained only in third place, but recorded the most significant gain with 3.3 percentage points, while the Green Bund recorded the largest loss with a decrease of 3 percentage points.

The left alliance was able to repeat its result of the last election, but lost one mandate together with the Christian Democrats . For the Christian Democrats their only mandate was lost. The Swedish People's Party lost around one percentage point, but retained its mandate.

Result

Result of the European elections in Finland 2004

Political party		be right			Seats
		number	%	+/-	number	+/-
	National Collection Party (KOK)	393.084	23.7	+1.6	4th	± 0
	Finnish Center Party (KESK)	386.174	23.4	−2.1	4th	± 0
	Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP)	350.057	21.2	+3.3	3	± 0
	Green Bund (VIHR)	172,668	10.4	−3.0	1	−1
	Left Alliance (VAS)	151.316	9.1	−0.1	1	± 0
	Swedish People's Party	94,326	5.7	+0.4	1	± 0
	Finnish Christian Democrats (KD)	70,845	4.3	+1.9	1	−1
	Communist Party of Finland (SKP)	10.134	0.6	± 0.0	-	-
	True Finns	8,900	0.5	−0.3	-	-
	For the poor	5,687	0.3	-	-	-
	Liberal People's Party (LKP)	3,558	0.2	−0.2	-	-
	Seniors Party of Finland (SSP)	2,974	0.2	± 0.0	-	-
	Finnish Folk Blue White (SKS)	3,248	0.2	-	-	-
	Finland - fatherland	3,248	0.2	-	-	-
	total	1,656,584	100.0		14th	−2
Eligible voters
Turnout (domestic)		39.4%
Votes cast		1,666,932
Invalid votes		10,348

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.stat.fi/tk/he/vaalit/vaalit2004eur/vaalit2004eur_ehdjarj.xls Official result of the 2004 European elections
2. ↑ http://www.stat.fi/tk/he/vaalit/vaalit2004eur/vaalit2004eur_puoamvertip15.xls