Advance voting for the European Parliamentary elections will open in Finland on Wednesday 29 May.
Eligible voters have the opportunity to cast their ballots early within Finland until Tuesday of next week, 4 June, and until Saturday 1 June at polling stations abroad.
Election day proper is on Sunday 9 June.
An estimated 4.5 million people in Finland are eligible to vote in the election, as citizens of any EU member state who live in the country can vote in the European elections. In addition, employees of international organisations based in Helsinki and their family members are also eligible — as long as they have not had the right to vote withdrawn in their own EU country.
Turnout in the previous EU election, held in 2019, reached a comparatively low level of 40.8 percent, although a survey published earlier this year suggested there will be a significant improvement this year.
The Finnish Justice Ministry offers more information about the elections and eligibility to vote on its website.
Finland will elect 15 MEPs this time around, an increase of two on the previous election.
One of the extra spots was allocated in 2020 as a result of departure of British MEPs following Brexit, while the other came late last year when the EU re-evaluated national quotas based on member states' population figures.
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