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European Parliament election in Finland, 2009

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13 seats to the European Parliament

The European Parliament election of 2009 in Finland was the election of the delegation from Finland to the European Parliament in 2009.

Finland uses the open list d'Hondt method, where voters vote for an individual, but the individual's vote is counted primarily for the party and secondarily for the candidate. Parties receive seats in proportion to their share of the vote, and candidates from those parties are selected based on the votes they received individually. In European Parliament elections, the whole country forms a single constituency.

Result

Compared to the 2004 European Parliament election in Finland, the three major parties National Coalition Party, Centre Party, and Social Democrats (SDP) each lost a seat. Moreover, the most popular candidate on the SDP list was the independent Mitro Repo. The Left Alliance lost their only seat. The Greens gained a seat, the Christian Democrats regained the seat they had lost in the previous period, and the True Finns achieved their first entry to the European Parliament with one seat. The Swedish People's Party kept their single seat.^[1] No extraparliamentary party gained any seats.

e • d Summary of the results of Finland's 7 June 2009 election to the European Parliament

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National party		European party	Main candidate	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	National Coalition Party (KOK)	EPP		386,416	23.21	0.50	3 / 13	1
	Centre Party (KESK)	ELDR		316,798	19.03	4.34	3 / 13	1
	Social Democratic Party (SDP)	PES		292,051	17.54	3.62	2 / 13	1
	Green League (VIHR)	EGP		206,439	12.40	1.97	2 / 13	1
	True Finns (PS)	None		162,930	9.79	9.25	1 / 13	1
	Swedish People's Party (SFP)	ELDR		101,453	6.09	0.39	1 / 13	0
	Christian Democrats (KD)	None		69,458	4.17	0.11	1 / 13	1
	Left Alliance (V)	NGLA / PEL		98,690	5.93	3.20	0 / 13	1
	Others (parties or candidates that won less than 1% of the vote and no seats)			30,596	1.84	—	0 / 13	0
Valid votes				1,664,831	99.55
Blank and invalid votes				7,603	0.45
Totals				1,672,434	100.00	—	13 / 13	1
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout			Finnish citizens + other EU citizens living in Finland	° 4,131,827	40.48
			Finnish citizens living abroad	200,630
			Totals	4,332,457	38.60	0.83
Source: Finnish Ministry of Justice / European election database Notes: ° = 4,125,616 Finnish citizens + 6,211 citizens from other EU countries.

Elected MEPs^[2][3]

• 
  Ville Itälä (Kok.)


• 
  Sirpa Pietikäinen (Kok.)


• 
  Eija-Riitta Korhola (Kok.)


• 
  Anneli Jäätteenmäki (Kesk.)


• 
  Hannu Takkula (Kesk.)


• 
  Riikka Manner (Kesk.)


• 
  Mitro Repo (SDP, independent)


• 
  Liisa Jaakonsaari (SDP)


• 
  Heidi Hautala (Vihr.)


• 
  Satu Hassi (Vihr.)


• 
  Timo Soini (PS)


• 
  Sari Essayah (KD)


• 
  Carl Haglund (SFP)

Most vote getters

References