Turnout: 40.38%
About this election
Finland's European Parliament election of 9 June 2024 was won comfortably by the National Coalition Party with 24.80% and 4 of Finland's 15 seats. The Left Alliance was the surprise of the night, surging to 17.32% and 3 seats on the strength of its lead candidate Li Andersson, who recorded the highest personal vote in the country. The Social Democrats, Centre Party and Green League each took 2 seats, and the Finns Party and Swedish People's Party one each. Turnout was 40.38%.
Finland elects its MEPs by open-list proportional representation (d'Hondt) in a single national constituency. Voters cast a personal vote for a candidate, and seats are allocated to parties in proportion to their combined candidate votes — a system that rewards high-profile individual candidates. Finland held 15 seats in the 2024–2029 European Parliament, up from its earlier allocation.
The National Coalition's clear win continued its long record of strength in European elections, where its firmly pro-EU stance plays well. The story of the night, however, was the Left Alliance, whose result far exceeded its usual national standing. The Greens slipped from their 2019 peak, and the Finns Party again fell back sharply compared with its parliamentary performances.
The Left Alliance's surge was driven overwhelmingly by its lead candidate, Li Andersson, a former education minister who attracted the single highest personal vote of any candidate in the country. Her popularity illustrates how Finland's candidate-centred open-list system can allow one figure to lift an entire party's result in a low-turnout European contest.
The election took place a year into Petteri Orpo's right-wing national government, and the strong Left Alliance result — together with the governing Finns Party's weak showing — was widely read as a mid-term protest against the government's austerity programme and labour-market reforms. European elections in Finland often serve as a low-cost outlet for such protest votes.
Turnout of 40.38% was again typical for a Finnish European election, roughly half the level of a parliamentary contest. The persistent gap reflects the lower salience of European politics for many voters and the fact that the result does not directly determine a government.
In 2019 the National Coalition Party had also led, with the Greens performing strongly amid a Europe-wide green wave; in 2024 it was the Left Alliance, powered by Andersson, that made the most striking gains, while the green surge of five years earlier had faded.
Statistics Finland (Tilastokeskus) and the Ministry of Justice election results service — stat.fi.
Compiled and reviewed by Bartłomiej Paruzel, Election Data Analyst, from official results. See our data methodology.