Business lobby provided most municipal election funding to NCP
Opposition National Coalition Party (NCP) candidates collected significant campaign donations from the Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) and other business groups and individuals.
Read More →‘Don’t hold a vote in the summer’: Experts give their election verdict
Polling experts Sami Borg and Elina Kestilä-Kekkonen told Yle why turnout in the local elections might have been so low.
Read More →Monday’s papers: Election night’s winners and losers
Who had a good night and who… didn’t? Monday’s papers pick through the local election results.
Read More →Live: Finland’s local election results
Residents are electing municipal councillors on Sunday in a vote postponed by two months because of the pandemic.
Read More →Election candidates face vandalism, ridicule and sexual harassment, an Yle survey finds
Hundreds of local election candidates say they have encountered various forms of harassment.
Read More →Finland’s smallest towns weigh survival in municipal election
Declining populations and migration to bigger cities means many small municipalities face a bleak future.
Read More →Covid boosts advance voting as 1.5m cast ballots before Finland’s local elections
Advance voting ended on Tuesday.
Read More →Monday’s papers: Criminal candidates, Operation Ironside, pay transparency
One local paper looked at the pasts of some candidates for this week’s municipal elections – the results may surprise you.
Read More →Yle broadcasts municipal election debate in ‘Easy Finnish’
The debate in simpler Finnish is available for viewing on Yle Areena.
Read More →Report: Fewer younger candidates running in 2021 municipal election
The average age of a candidate in this year’s municipal election is 50 years old.
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