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Finnish presidential election, 2006

Election NameFinnish presidential election, 2006
CountryFinland
Typepresidential
Ongoingno
Previous ElectionFinnish presidential election, 2000
Previous Year2000
Next ElectionFinnish presidential election, 2012
Next Year2012
Election Date18-24 and 29 January 2006
Nominee1Tarja Halonen
Party1Social Democratic Party of Finland
Popular Vote11,630,980
Percentage151.8%
Nominee2Sauli Niinistö
Party2National Coalition Party
Popular Vote21,518,333
Percentage248.2%
TitlePresident
Before ElectionTarja Halonen
Before PartySocial Democratic Party of Finland
After ElectionTarja Halonen
After PartySocial Democratic Party of Finland

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The Finnish Presidential election of 2006 saw the re-election of Tarja Halonen as President of Finland for a second six-year term.

The first round of voting in Finnish presidential elections always takes place on the third Sunday of January, in this case 15 January 2006. As no candidate received more than half of the vote, a second round was held on 29 January between the two highest placed candidates from the first round, Tarja Halonen and Sauli Niinistö. Tarja Halonen, the incumbent, won the final round by 3.6 percentage points. The newly elected president formally took office for her second term on 1 March, and would have done so on 1 February, had no run-off been necessary (Constitution 55 §).

Advance voting is possible in Finnish elections, and the dates for this in the first round were the 4th, 5th and 7th to 10th of January . Finnish citizens voting abroad could vote from the 4th to the 7th of January . An advantage to advance voting is that those doing so have a wider choice of polling stations (typically post offices, such as the one shown here), whereas on the actual election day the polling stations are fixed, usually schools, libraries or town halls.

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Results :
candidate party votes %
Tarja Halonen Social Democratic Party 636,143 49.4
Sauli Niinistö National Coalition Party 281,901 21.9
Matti Vanhanen Centre Party 258,034 20.0
Timo Soini True Finns 33,275 2.6
Heidi Hautala Green League 31,406 2.4
Bjarne Kallis Christian Democrats 23,009 1.8
Henrik Lax Swedish People's Party 17,654 1.4
Arto Lahti (independent) 5,810 0.5

Results :

Results :
# Municipality % votes
1 Kökar 78,2
2 Lemland 72,0
3 Kemi 70,6
4 Saltvik 70,4
5 Kumlinge 69,8
6 Suolahti 69,4
7 Pohja 69,2
8 Eckerö 68,6
9 Mariehamn 68,2
10 Finström 67,0

Results :
# Municipality % votes
1 Alahärmä 78,1
2 Kauniainen 75,1
Kortesjärvi 75,1
4 Lappajärvi 74,3
5 Halsua 74,1
6 Ylihärmä 72,8
Karijoki 72,8
8 Evijärvi 72,2
9 Veteli 71,8
10 Kuortane 71,6
Ylistaro 71,6

Results :
runoff election MTV3 16-18/01 HS 16 � 17/01
3 Sauli Niinistö 45 % 47 %
9 Tarja Halonen 55 % 53 %

Results :
first round YLE 10 � 11/01   MTV3 weeks 52, 1 and 2   HS 05 � 07/01   HS 27 � 29/12   AL 12 � 29/12   HS 07 � 17/12   YLE 09/12   HS 05/11   YLE 05/11  
2 Bjarne Kallis 1 % 1 % 2 % 2 % 1,4 % 2 % 1 % 1 % 1 %
3 Sauli Niinistö 20 % 19 % 21 % 20 % 20,3 % 20 % 18 % 24 % 19 %
4 Timo Soini 4 % 3 % 3 % 2 % 1,4 % 2 % 1 % 1 % 1 %
5 Heidi Hautala 4 % 3 % 3 % 2 % 2,3 % 2 % 2 % 3 % 1 %
6 Henrik Lax 1 % 1 % 1 % 1 % 1,0 % 1 % 1 % 1 % 1 %
7 Matti Vanhanen 18 % 17 % 18 % 18 % 16,5 % 19 % 19 % 18 % 15 %
8 Arto Lahti 1 % < 1 % < 1 % 1 % 0,9 % 1 % na7 na8 na9
9 Tarja Halonen 52 % 55 % 51 % 54 % 56,2 % 55 % 58 % 52 % 61 %

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