2024 Finnish presidential election

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Turnout	71.55% (first round) 67.58% (second round)
Candidate Alexander Stubb Pekka Haavisto Party National Coalition Independent Alliance Green League Popular vote 1,575,211 1,476,548 Percentage 51.62% 48.38%
First round results Second round results
President before election Sauli Niinistö Independent Elected President Alexander Stubb National Coalition

Presidential elections were held in Finland on 28 January 2024, and a second round was held on 11 February 2024.^[1] Voters elected the President of the Republic for a six-year term. Current President Sauli Niinistö is term-limited and cannot run for re-election since he has served the maximum two terms.^[2]

Had the new president been elected in the first round on 28 January by winning more than half of valid votes cast, their term would have begun on 1 February. However, No candidate received a majority of votes.

Alexander Stubb and Pekka Haavisto ran in a runoff on 11 February with Stubb winning 51.6% to Haavisto's 48.4%. The result in the second round was the closest in the history of presidential elections in Finland.^[3] Stubb will be inaugurated as president on 1 March.^[4]

1. ↑ "Schedule for the 2024 presidential election". Vaalit. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
2. ↑ "Näkökulma: Punavihreä vs. porvari - onko jompikumpi heistä Suomen seuraava presidentti?". www.iltalehti.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2021-04-13.
3. ↑ Teivainen, Aleksi (2024-02-11). "Stubb beats Haavisto in Finland's closest-ever presidential election". Helsinki Times. Archived from the original on 11 February 2024. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
4. ↑ "Schedule in the Presidential Election". Vaalit. Archived from the original on 21 June 2023. Retrieved 2024-01-27.