Voting method

Election Act (714/1998; amendments up to 218/2004 included)

Section 1 — Scope of Application

This Act contains, in addition to provisions regarding elections contained in the Constitution and the Municipalities Act  (365/1994),provisions on how to carry out:

1) the election of members to Parliament (parliamentary elections);

2) the election of the President of the Republic (the Presidential election);

3) municipal elections; and

4) the election of members to the European Parliament from Finland (European Parliamentary elections).

Section 46 — Right to vote in advance

Every enfranchised person is entitled to vote in advance in the general advance voting polling stations in Finland and in the Finnish diplomatic missions abroad.

​Section 58 — Voting in the advance voting

The enfranchised person has in parliamentary elections and municipal elections the right to vote for a candidate from a combined list of candidates of the electoral district or municipality in which the voter is registered as having the right to vote in the election in question, in the European Parliamentary elections to vote for a candidate from the combination of lists of candidates, and in Presidential elections to vote for a candidate from the list of candidates.