2024 Finnish presidential election

2024 Finnish presidential election
← 2018 28 January 2024 (first round)
11 February 2024 (second round)		 2030 →
Turnout71.55% (first round)
67.58% (second round)
 
Candidate Alexander Stubb Pekka Haavisto
Party National Coalition Independent
Alliance – Green
Popular vote 1,575,444 1,476,634
Percentage 51.62% 48.38%
President before election

Sauli Niinistö
Independent

Elected President

Alexander Stubb
National Coalition

Presidential elections were held in Finland on 28 January 2024, with a second round held on 11 February.[1] Voters elected a president of the Republic for a six-year term. Incumbent president Sauli Niinistö was term-limited and ineligible to run for re-election, having served the maximum two terms, ensuring that the president elected would be the country's thirteenth.[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, as no candidate received a majority of votes, Alexander Stubb and Pekka Haavisto contested 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, followed by the 2000 presidential runoff.[3] Stubb began his term as president on 1 March.[4]

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