Finnish Presidential Election

[CO-OWL]

Final results

Halonen 51.8
Niinistö 48.2

Still much closer than your early prediction :

If there will be a second round: Halonen about 60 %, Vanhanen or Niinistö: about 40 %

[minionofmidas]

I looked at official results, and noticed that about 40% of votes were cast early or absentee, and that Niinistö actually narrowly won at election day polling stations.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Maps?

[minionofmidas]

Only regions to vote for Niinistö were Vaasa and Oulu (so, west coast). He came very close (over 49%) in Uusimaa (rich country around Helsinki) and S Savo, wherever that is. Halonen`s far and away best result was Aland, which surprised me - surprised me in the first round, that is.

[Huckleberry Finn]

http://www.yle.fi/vaalit/tulospalvelu/kierros2/


Click tuloskartta and you find a interactive map


Oulu is northern very religious and centrist county.

Vaasa is the Vendee of Finland.  They have allways been the most centre-right  province in Finland.

E-Savo is very lightly industrialised county and  on the lake-region.

In Uusimaa there are some of the most traditionally socialist municipalities (due to old industralisation) but also some of the welthiest communities.

Interesting feature is in Varsinais-Suomi is that the Niinistö won in his old home town Salo and its surrounding (although Halonen won some municipalities that are normally seen as pretty conservative.

E-Savo (South Savo) is a both centrist and socialist stronghold, but conservatives are weak there. It's fairly poor area with high unemployment and not very religious. (I'm originally from Savonlinna in E-Savo, btw ) Halonen won in towns there but Niinistö did surprisingly well in the  countryside, which is the result of the support from centrist voters. Thank You!

Niinistö did a very good result also in Kainuu (Eastern part of Oulu district) what is surprising because the area is poorest in the whole country and not that religious than the western part of district or Vaasa district. Again: centrist voters.

I'm disappointed that Niinistö didn't success to get more votes in V-Suomi, especially in Turku area which fairly conservative city. I think he didn't campaign there enough.

Halonen was so popular in Åland because she is strong supporter of  autonomy of the island. She was, for example, against a law which would have harmed island's online-gambling companies. She seems to been fairly popular usually fairly conservative Swedish speaking voters. Niinistö probably got majority of their votes though.

Here, in Tampere Niinistä got almost 45 percent of vote what is good result in this tradionally leftist town.

I'm generally disappointed for the result. It was so damn close! Niinistö could have won if hadn't failed in the last debat.) I think that the result shows that Finland is that socialist country like people generally think. (People here tend to forget the fact that centre-right parties have and always have had tha majority in tha parliament)

Trust me: After the next year parliament election we have centrist-right cabinet as the result of 1) an election victory, 2)  increased will for cooperation between centrist and rightist parties.