Early voting rate rose to 44% from less than 37% in the previous presidential election.
Finns voted more enthusiastically early in this presidential election than they did six years ago. Sauli Niinisto He was re-elected to a second term with a large margin in the first round.
A new record was set in early voting for the presidential election before polling places closed Tuesday night.
Voter turnout rose to 44.0%. Six years ago, the preliminary figure announced on the final day was 36.1%. This figure was later adjusted to 36.7%.
A total of 1.88 million Finns cast their early votes between January 17th and 23rd.
However, election experts at Yale University say it is difficult to estimate final turnout based on preliminary votes. Sami BorgResearch Manager at the Local Government Development Foundation.
“I thought for a long time before voting even started that we would see 75 percent turnout in this election, which would be a significant increase from previous years.” [almost] Six years ago, it was 70 percent. Increased turnout in Finnish elections is extremely rare. Maybe now some kind of record will be set,” he told Yale.
The total voter turnout in 2018 was 66.76%.
Borg said the competition among the top candidates is much closer this time around, and some voters may be waiting to cast their votes on the official election day, next Sunday, Jan. 28. .
The second runoff election will likely take place on Sunday, February 11th, with early voting running from January 31st to February 6th.
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