European Parliament election, 2014 (Finland)
The European elections in Finland 2014 will take place on 25 May 2014. It is carried out within the framework of an EU-wide European elections held in 2014, with 13 of the 751 seats are allocated in the European Parliament in Finland.
Electoral system
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 is 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.