Finland Parliamentary Election 2019

[Devil Wincarnate]

yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finland_votes_live_election_updates/10738144

[Merseymike]

Mix of SDP and VAS and VIHR at the top
PS at the bottom

[Deleted]

I'm struggling to find anywhere to follow: yle are ok, but have no actual numbers.

[andrea]

Apr 14, 2019 17:31:02 GMT @europeanlefty said:

I'm struggling to find anywhere to follow: yle are ok, but have no actual numbers.

Here there are numbers

vaalit.yle.fi/ev2019/en

So far 43% counted

seats tally would be

SDP 40 (+6)
National Coalition Party 38 (+1)
Finns 35 (-3)
Centre Party 31 (-18)
Greens 21 (+6)
Left Alliance 17 (+5)
Swedish People Party 10 (+1)
Christian Democrats 6(+1)
Others 2 (+1)

[Deleted]

Apr 14, 2019 17:46:12 GMT andrea said:

Apr 14, 2019 17:31:02 GMT @europeanlefty said:

I'm struggling to find anywhere to follow: yle are ok, but have no actual numbers.

Here there are numbers

vaalit.yle.fi/ev2019/en

So far 43% counted

seats tally would be

SDP 40 (+6)
National Coalition Party 38 (+1)
Finns 35 (-3)
Centre Party 31 (-18)
Greens 21 (+6)
Left Alliance 17 (+5)
Swedish People Party 10 (+1)
Christian Democrats 6(+1)
Others 2 (+1)

Thank you! (or maybe "kiitoksia?")

[Georg Ebner]

Apr 14, 2019 17:31:02 GMT @europeanlefty said:

I'm struggling to find anywhere to follow: yle are ok, but have no actual numbers.

Official numbers can be found at www.vaalit.fi

[Georg Ebner]

Helsinki and SubUrbs("Uusimaa") is behind in counting, so KOK will - despite solid losses there (to the GREENS) - rather certainly be second finally (ahead of PS).
PS seems to have gained from KESK quite a lot in the rural&remote north.

[Deleted]

Apr 14, 2019 19:03:01 GMT Georg Ebner said:

Helsinki and SubUrbs("Uusimaa") is behind in counting, so KOK will - despite solid losses there (to the GREENS) - rather certainly be second finally (ahead of PS).
PS seems to have gained from KESK quite a lot in the rural&remote north.

They also appear to have lost quite a lot to the Greens in Lapland.

[andrea]

81% counted

SDP 39 seats (+5)
True Finns 39 (+1)
National Coalition Party 37 (=)
Centre Party 32 (-17)
Greens 20 (+5)
Left Alliance 16 (+4)
Swedish People Party 10 (+1)
Christian Democrats 5(=)
Others 2 (+1)

[Georg Ebner]

PreDiction of the FinalResult for TV-channel YLE:

40 SDP
39 PS
38 KOK

Strong result for PS - who would have thought so some time ago?

[Deleted]

Counting is finished in Satakunta, 7 constituencies are over 95% counted, 91% counted in Oulu, 77% in Helsinki, 62% in Uusimaa

[greenhert]

Current seat totals:

SDP: 40 (+6)
Finns Party: 39 (+1)
NCP: 38 (+2)
Centre: 31 (-18)
Green League: 20 (+5)
Left Alliance: 16 (+4)
Swedish People's Party: 9 (+0)
Christian Democrats: 5 (+0)
Others: 2 (+1)

Uusimaa is the last region whose counting is not yet complete (currently 94% complete)

[mboy]

Narrowly avoids the embarrassment of the populists coming first. I'm beginning to dread the Euro results across the continent...

[andrea]

Count finished


Social Democrats 40 seats (+6)
True Finns 39 (+1)
National Coalition Party 38 (+1)
Centre Party 31 (-18)
Greens 20 (+5)
Left Alliance 16 (+4)
Swedish People Party 9 (0)
Christian Democrats 5(=)
Others 2 (+1)

[curiousliberal]

Apr 14, 2019 21:16:42 GMT mboy said:

Narrowly avoids the embarrassment of the populists coming first. I'm beginning to dread the Euro results across the continent...

See it as an opportunity to rip off the bandage. Where they come first, they often fall back pretty quickly afterwards (see: M5S in Italy, FPO in Austria, and arguably Syriza, although the last of these three has behaved pretty responsibly in latter years). The old Soviet bloc paints a different picture, but it always has.

[andrea]

The 2 Others are

För Åland that has been re-elected in the Åland Islands. Wikipedia describes them as centrist-agrarian

Liike Nyt ry Uusimaa yhteislista, splinters from NCP

[Devil Wincarnate]

Apr 14, 2019 21:23:41 GMT curiousliberal said:

Apr 14, 2019 21:16:42 GMT mboy said:

Narrowly avoids the embarrassment of the populists coming first. I'm beginning to dread the Euro results across the continent...

See it as an opportunity to rip off the bandage. Where they come first, they often fall back pretty quickly afterwards (see: M5S in Italy, FPO in Austria, and arguably Syriza, although the last of these three has behaved pretty responsibly in latter years). The old Soviet bloc paints a different picture, but it always has.

Worth pointing out though that the True Finns and their predecessor party have a history dating back to the Fifties, and have been in government previously with minimal comment.  They are a very different beast to many of the populists, although I accept there are some parallels to the FPOe.

[matureleft]

Bearing in mind the earlier breakdown of the coalition, the elimination of the Finns fragment that continued in government and the stated unwillingness of the Centre Party to serve with the Finns (as now led) one would assume that there'll be a new coalition leaning slightly more to the left, perhaps led by the Social Democrats. Might take a while to put it together with a parliament as fragmented as this.

The Finns result was pretty impressive considering the chaos following their leadership election less than two years ago.

[mboy]

Finland adds itself the the depressingly large number of countries where the liberal centre has been destroyed to the benefit of populist right and left.

[finsobruce]

Apr 15, 2019 8:55:48 GMT mboy said:

Finland adds itself the the depressingly large number of countries where the liberal centre has been destroyed to the benefit of populist right and left.

By its very nature the National Coalition party must surely be regarded as somewhat in the Liberal Centre?? While not actually being the Centre party of course....