European Parliament election, 1999 (Finland)

The European elections in Finland 1999 was held on 13 June 1999.

Electoral system

Eleven 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

As in most other EU countries, the turnout was low in Finland. After 1996, 60.3 % of eligible voters went to the polls were, these were in 1999 only 31.4%.

Election result

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