In the national overall results, the Social Democratic Party (centre-left) seems to be in the lead. Centre and Left seem to have a good result, and the (True) Finns have had a huge loss. In the county/regional elections, the National Coalition (centre-right) has also a minor loss.
In the big cities, the capital region of Helsinki will be tight. It seems that the SDP will take the lead in Tampere and Turku, the other points of the “growth triangle”.
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GrumpyFinn on
While the Finns Party traditionally doesn’t do well in local elections, this is still a huge loss for them and a clear rejection of Finamce Minister Purra IMO.
Looking closely at the voting maps, the majority of their loss went to the Social Democrats and the Centre, which is where they had originally taken votes from.
PotentialLanguage635 on
SDP in the lead, Finns Party support collapses!
tofiwashere on
I wonder how many True Finns voters realise their candidates are total whackjobs. Sending a couple of them to Helsinki to be troublemakers in parliament is not that bad for them, since there are 200 MPs and most of them are sensible people—just a bit of a protest. But locally, they are not that excited to have their own party members screwing things up in their hometown.
…Or they just can’t be bothered caring about their own issues – only about the immigrants elsewhere.
FluffnPuff_Rebirth on
Finns party only really has their immigration stance going on for them, and on local county elections immigration is not a very a compelling flag to rally around of, as cities have very little say in who moves there outside of flat out never zoning any low income housing and doing your best to get rid of the existing ones or something equally blunt and extreme that would also get rid of half of your existing non-immigrant population.
In general, one shouldn’t use the same criteria to vote in local elections as they do in national elections, as the government is responsible for entirely different things than your local city is. Half the things you might really, really care about might be something your city has zero control over.
If you are elderly and want to minimize wait times related to public health- Social Democrats
If you are in all right health and don’t want to pay as much in taxes and want more frisbee-golf parks/yuppie things – The Coalition (Center-Right)
If you want more public transport – Greens
Meanwhile, the Finns Party has nothing realistic to offer.
Desenrasco on
Hell yeah! Good on you guys, love the finns. Cheers from Portugal!
YolognaiSwagetti on
Finland is the gigachad of European countries with the right wing populist party getting 7.8%. get fucked populists.
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In the national overall results, the Social Democratic Party (centre-left) seems to be in the lead. Centre and Left seem to have a good result, and the (True) Finns have had a huge loss. In the county/regional elections, the National Coalition (centre-right) has also a minor loss.
In the big cities, the capital region of Helsinki will be tight. It seems that the SDP will take the lead in Tampere and Turku, the other points of the “growth triangle”.
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While the Finns Party traditionally doesn’t do well in local elections, this is still a huge loss for them and a clear rejection of Finamce Minister Purra IMO.
Looking closely at the voting maps, the majority of their loss went to the Social Democrats and the Centre, which is where they had originally taken votes from.
SDP in the lead, Finns Party support collapses!
I wonder how many True Finns voters realise their candidates are total whackjobs. Sending a couple of them to Helsinki to be troublemakers in parliament is not that bad for them, since there are 200 MPs and most of them are sensible people—just a bit of a protest. But locally, they are not that excited to have their own party members screwing things up in their hometown.
…Or they just can’t be bothered caring about their own issues – only about the immigrants elsewhere.
Finns party only really has their immigration stance going on for them, and on local county elections immigration is not a very a compelling flag to rally around of, as cities have very little say in who moves there outside of flat out never zoning any low income housing and doing your best to get rid of the existing ones or something equally blunt and extreme that would also get rid of half of your existing non-immigrant population.
In general, one shouldn’t use the same criteria to vote in local elections as they do in national elections, as the government is responsible for entirely different things than your local city is. Half the things you might really, really care about might be something your city has zero control over.
If you are elderly and want to minimize wait times related to public health- Social Democrats
If you are in all right health and don’t want to pay as much in taxes and want more frisbee-golf parks/yuppie things – The Coalition (Center-Right)
If you want more public transport – Greens
Meanwhile, the Finns Party has nothing realistic to offer.
Hell yeah! Good on you guys, love the finns. Cheers from Portugal!
Finland is the gigachad of European countries with the right wing populist party getting 7.8%. get fucked populists.