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Updating results in Finland

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 01:17:29 PM EST
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Could you copy-and-paste it here, with EP party affiliations added?

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by DoDo on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 01:58:22 PM EST
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82.5% counted (4.00 / 5)

Ist number = projected seats. 2nd number % of votes counted. 3rd number votes counted so far

National Coalition Party    3    22,0    301 524
Centre Party of Finland    3    20,8    286 052
Social Democratic Party 2    17,8    245 092
Green League    1    10,9    149 922
True Finns    1    10,0    137 487
Swedish People's Party    1    6,3    85 875
Left Wing Alliance    1    6,0    81 992
Christian Democrats     1    4,4    59 845

Social democrats down 1 seat, Swedish People's remarkably retains seat. True Finns (The Ugly Party) get a seat. Damn. How embarassing.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 02:46:54 PM EST
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Re: 82.5% counted (none / 1)

As I figured it out in the meantime, EP party affiliations:

National Coalition Party - EPP
Centre Party of Finland - ALDE
Social Democratic Party - PES
Green League - Greens-EFA
True Finns - Non-Inscrits (Libertas)
Swedish People's Party - ALDE
Christian Democrats - EPP

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by DoDo on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 02:49:26 PM EST
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Re: 82.5% counted (none / 0)

Turnout down just over a point. But I bet, proportionally, Swedish speaking voters have been more active this time. The SPP was not predicted to get a seat before voting. If SPP do get one tonight then my close colleagues will be congratulating themselves on their marketing ideas and execution ;-)

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 02:54:29 PM EST
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90.1 % counted (none / 0)

position unchanged

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 02:58:08 PM EST
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Re: 92.2 % counted (none / 0)

I guess this looks like the end result. The True Finns have 150.000 votes so far. Luckily I know what most of them will look like...It's the closet fascists that worry me.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 03:02:11 PM EST
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Re: 92.2 % counted (none / 1)

Live report from a colleague at the SPP election HQ. It's still tight. SPP needs over 6%. Now at 6.1%. The only relief is that there are still votes to be counted from the Helsinki region which has a higher % of swedish speakers.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 03:11:15 PM EST
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97.7 % counted (none / 0)

Situation electric at SPP HQ ;-)

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 03:20:19 PM EST
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Re: 97.7 % counted (none / 1)

Looks like 5000 more Swedish speakers turned out this time compared with last EP election.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 03:21:50 PM EST
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100% counted (4.00 / 3)

National Coalition 23.2% (3 seats) -1

Centre Party 19.0% (3 seats) -1

Social Democrats 17.5% (2 seats) -1

Green League 12.4% (2 seats) +1

True Finns 9.8% (1 seat) +1

Swedish People's Party 6.1% (1 seat) no change

Christian Democrats 4.2 % (1 seat) +1

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 04:39:53 PM EST
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Re: 100% counted (none / 0)

What is their EP group membership?

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 04:42:59 PM EST
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Re: 100% counted (none / 1)

I posted it upthread.

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by DoDo on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 04:48:25 PM EST
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Re: 100% counted (none / 1)

BTW 13 Finnish MEPs are 8 women and 5 men ;-)

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 05:07:34 PM EST
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Re: 100% counted (none / 1)

National Coalition Party - EPP 3
Centre Party of Finland - ALDE 3
Social Democratic Party - PES 2
Green League - Greens - EFA 2
True Finns - Non-Inscrits (Libertas) 1
Swedish People's Party - ALDE 1
Christian Democrats - EPP 1

(Thus ALDE 4 but the two parties are aligned differently within the group)

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 04:56:03 PM EST
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Great (none / 1)

Thanks Sven!

by Nomad on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 06:27:27 PM EST
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Re: 97.7 % counted (none / 1)

I voted SFP for the first time in my life. Not very happy with that vote, but there it is (although Nils Torvalds wasn't too far from winning, hah). I would have voted Green League otherwise.
Anyway, really smart move on the SFP's part to nominate a popular politican from Åland as part of their list, they managed to get the Ålanders to turn out in droves. If they hadn't, they would have lost the seat.

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde

by NordicStorm (michael<-at->sturmbaum.net) on Mon Jun 8th, 2009 at 08:05:14 AM EST
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Re: 97.7 % counted (none / 0)

I voted for one of the HBL leader writers, Björn Månsson. I've met him and discussed with him - he seems well informed (as he should be) about a wide variety of issues. He also has a sense of humour and a command of languages. The Vaalikone profiler put us in fairly close approximation on what I think are the key issues. I'd rather have Nils or Björn on the seat than young Carl, but SFP's problems are not going to be solved in less than 5 dedicated years of change, so perhaps a younger generation rep is a good idea.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Jun 8th, 2009 at 08:29:25 AM EST
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Re: 82.5% counted (4.00 / 3)

The Ugly Party did quite well. As my friend said, "In Belgium you get a fine if you don't vote. In Finland you'll get Timo Soini."

Soini, by the way, has said out loud that he probably won't even go to the European Parliament, but plans to send a substitute instead. Pfffft.

You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes. --More--

by tzt (tztmail at gmail dot com) on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 03:03:31 PM EST
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Re: 82.5% counted (none / 0)

Soini, kerpele!

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 03:15:09 PM EST
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Re: 82.5% counted (4.00 / 5)

And "my" party (The Left Wing Alliance) lost again. I don't know how many elections in a row they have now lost; I've lost count a while ago. The Greens say they aim to take votes from the right wing parties and the Social Democrats but it seems that they end up taking the Left votes instead...

(And also, in previous European elections the Left Wing Alliance had an Eurocritic as a strong candidate. This time he was not there anymore so the critical votes went to Soini's Ugly Party instead. The Left campaign this time was about "your conscience and Europe", not so much about "who needs the EU anyway", and it seems that it did not really attract voters. Which is a shame.)

You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes. --More--

by tzt (tztmail at gmail dot com) on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 07:46:08 PM EST
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