Presidential election in Finland 2006

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Presidential election in Finland 2006

January 15, 2006 (1st ballot)

January 29, 2006 (runoff)

Election winner Tarja Halonen Social Democratic Party

1st ballot Candidates Votes in% Tarja Halons    46.3 Sauli Niinistö    24.1 Matti Vanhanen    17.5 Heidi Hautala    3.5 Timo Soini    3.4 Bjarne Kallis    2.0 Henrik Lax    1.6 Arto Lahti    0.4

Runoff Candidates Votes in% Tarja Halons    51.8 Sauli Niinistö    48.2

Before the election of Tarja Halonen SDP

Elected Tarja Halonen SDP

The presidential election in Finland was held on 15 and 29. January 2006 instead. Since no candidate achieved an absolute majority in the first ballot, a runoff election had to be held.

The previous President Tarja Halonen from the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) narrowly prevailed in the runoff election against Sauli Niinistö from the conservative National Collection Party (KOK).

As the only party represented in parliament, the left-wing alliance did not put up its own candidate, but supported Tarja Halonen's application.

Election result

Presidential election on January 15 and 29, 2006
Political party	candidate	1st ballot			2nd ballot
		percent	be right		percent	be right
Social Democratic Party of Finland Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue (SDP) Finlands Socialdemokratiska Parti	Tarja Halons	46.3	1,397,030		51.8	1 630 833
National Collection Party Kansallinen Kokoomuspuolue (Kok) Samlingspartiet (Saml)	Sauli Niinistö	24.1	725 866		48.2	1,517,947
Center Suomen Keskusta (Kesk) Centers i Finland	Matti Vanhanen	18.6	561 990
Green Bund Vihreä liitto Gröna Förbundet	Heidi Hautala	3.5	105 248
Base fins Perussuomalaiset Sannfinländarna	Timo Soini	3.4	103 492
Christian Democrats Kristillisdemokraatit (KD) Kristdemokraterna	Bjarne Kallis	2.0	61 483
Swedish People's Party Ruotsalainen Kansanpuolue (RKP) Svenska folkpartiet (SFP)	Henrik Lax	1.6	48 703
independently	Arto Lahti	0.4	12,989
All in all						0
Sources: 1st round , 2nd round

Result by constituency

1st ballot

1st ballot on January 15, 2006
district	voter turnout		Hal	Nii	Van	Blow	Soi	Cal	Lax	Lah
Helsinki			46.3	32.5	6.8	7.8	2.4	1.7	2.0	0.5
Uusimaa			45.9	30.6	10.9	4.2	3.0	1.9	3.1	0.4
Varsinais-Suomi			48.7	27.2	13.7	3.6	3.3	1.5	1.6	0.4
Satakunta			52.2	20.5	19.2	1.8	3.7	1.6	0.3	0.7
Åland			69.4	8.5	3.9	4.3	0.2	1.3	12.1	0.2
Malice			50.0	25.7	15.6	2.4	3.5	1.9	0.3	0.5
Pirkanmaa			49.0	26.5	13.7	3.9	4.0	2.0	0.4	0.5
Kymi			48.8	23.5	18.8	2.2	4.1	1.8	0.4	0.6
South Savo			45.9	19.1	27.3	2.1	3.2	1.9	0.2	0.4
North Savo			45.1	17.4	29.1	2.3	3.9	1.6	0.2	0.4
North Karelia			45.6	17.0	27.6	2.4	4.9	1.8	0.2	0.4
Vaasa			37.0	17.3	28.8	1.7	3.3	5.2	6.4	0.3
Central Finland			49.4	17.9	22.8	3.1	4.0	2.3	0.2	0.4
Oulu			41.0	17.3	33.5	2.6	3.7	1.4	0.2	0.4
Lapland			46.4	15.3	31.2	2.0	3.5	1.0	0.1	0.4

Runoff

Runoff election on January 29, 2006
district	voter turnout		Halons	Niinistö
Helsinki			53.3	46.7
Uusimaa			50.6	49.4
Varsinais-Suomi			53.3	46.7
Satakunta			56.4	43.6
Åland			67.4	32.6
Malice			53.7	46.3
Pirkanmaa			54.4	45.6
Kymi			52.7	47.3
South Savo			50.2	49.8
North Savo			51.2	48.8
North Karelia			52.2	47.8
Vaasa			43.1	56.9
Central Finland			55.7	44.3
Oulu			48.2	51.8
Lapland			53.8	46.2

Web links

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