Turnout: 54.30%
About this election
For the first time, Finland held its municipal and county elections on the same day, 13 April 2025. In the municipal contest the Social Democrats topped a municipal election for the first time since 2004, winning 23.10% nationally, just ahead of the National Coalition Party (21.90%). The Finns Party suffered heavy losses, falling to 7.60%. The Centre Party again won the largest number of individual council seats. Turnout was 54.3%, electing councillors to 308 municipal councils.
Municipal councillors are elected every four years by open-list proportional representation (d'Hondt) within each municipality; voters cast a personal vote and council size reflects population. Holding the municipal and county elections together was intended to lift participation and reduce administrative cost.
The elections were a mid-term verdict on Petteri Orpo's right-wing national government, and the results — strong gains for the SDP and a sharp fall for the coalition Finns Party — were widely interpreted as a backlash against the government's spending cuts and labour-market reforms.
Statistics Finland (Tilastokeskus) and the Ministry of Justice election results service — stat.fi.