Parliamentary polls today

The parliamentary elections will be held across the country today (Sunday) to elect a new government to run the country for the next four years.

A total of 4277487 voters including 2082297 men and 2195190 women will elect 200 lawmakers through exercising their rights of franchise.

A total of 2424 candidates from 13 electoral districts in the country are contesting the polls, sources of the Ministry of Justice said.

Twenty-three lawmakers will be elected from Helsinki electoral district, 37 from Uusimaa, 17 from Varsinais-Suomi, 8 from Satakunta, 14 from Häme, 20 from Pirkanmaa , 15 from Southeast, 15 Savo-Karelia, 16 from Vaasa, 10 from Central Finland, 18 from Oulu, six from Lapland and 1 from Åland electoral district.

Earlier, a total of 1,728811 people had already cast votes during the advance ballot that took place from March 22 to March 28 in the country and from March 22 to March 25 abroad.

The number is about 40.4% of the total voters.

Out of the voters, who cast votes in advance, 798860 were men and 929951 were women.

Meanwhile, the authority completed all-out preparations to hold the elections in a peaceful manner.

Voters must present proof of their identity when voting and the identification must have a photo on it.

The national elections will be held from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm.

Preliminary results will be available at the end of the voting during the evening and the following night.

A recount of the votes will be conducted in the constituency electoral committees on Wednesday, April 5, and the committees will confirm the final results of the elections.

Meanwhile, the candidates and leaders of the major political parties were found too busy with their last minutes election campaigning at different parts of the country on Saturday.