European Parliament election, 1996 (Finland)

The European elections in Finland 1996 was held on 20 October 1996. She was the first direct elections to the European Parliament after the accession of Finland to the European Union. Finland Set 16 deputies in the European Parliament.

Electoral system

15 parties or constituency association stood for election.

Finland uses when selecting the system of the open lists, whereby the order of the candidates is not only the parties to set. The voters do not vote for a party from itself but only for their candidates. The voices that have received together all candidates of a party, be used for the determination of the amount of seats that a party receives used. For this provision that the D' Hondt method application. Within a party then those candidates are MPs who have received the most votes. In this method, candidates who have indeed received many votes, the party but does not have enough seats against candidates with fewer votes, but more free seats subject.

Poll

2,366,504 people went to vote, representing a share of 60.3 %. 2,249,411 votes were valid.

Election

Compared to the parliamentary elections in Finland 1995 of March 19, 1995 Social Democrats had big losses cope while the Center Party, which had received in the parliamentary elections 19.9% ​​, strongly inclined won.

Election result

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