Last night’s elections was to elect councillors and deputy councillors for the welfare regions. A welfare region is the level of government that will be introduced by the reform of the social services.
KOK is short for Kokoomus (National Coalition Party in English) is a party that advocates smart economic discipline and wants to allow private healthcare companies to take part of producing healthcare services for the new welfare regions.
As far as i could gather with google, the top 3 and 2 are center left parties, while the no. 1 ist neo-liberal. Is that true?
And is the Overall “winner” ,the one who will lead the government with it’s coalition, allready clear now?
Edit: thanks for the clarification that this is a minor election and not the one for the government. Shows how uninformed i am… but is useful to see changes in the political landscape
Oh KOK
Please give me K O K
Vas ?
Surprisingly good result for KESK and bad for PS. Aren’t the polling numbers the other way around for the general election polls?
Democracy I guess
I am curious to know what KOK and the other top parties stand for
Who ever is posting these statistics needs to translate it to universal language or add explanation, otherwise why post it in r/europe, jus do it in r/finland ….
I’m waiting for a cooperation between Polish PiS and Finnish KOK.
Nice kok
It should be noted that the vote did not take place in Helsinki, so parties that are particularly strong or weak in Helsinki were expected to have slightly different results compared to other elections on that basis alone.
To be noted that the overall voter turnout was only 47.5%.
Maybe it’d be a good idea to tell fellow Europeans what we were actually voting for.
*meanwhile myself in Hungary
You guys have democracy?
Nice to see a culinary party win.
Miks ulkomaalasia kiinnostais Suomen aluevaalit ku ei suomalaisiakaan kiinnosta, jos edes tietävät mistä äänestettiin 😀
This is the regional election results. The new “welfare regions” are going to run health, rescue and social services. This has been traditionally done by municipalities, but some are very small and have not voluntarily merged or allied with each other, so as a compromise, the central government created a regional government level.
City of Helsinki forms its own welfare region, directly controlled by the city. Province of Åland similarly.
KOK (National Coalition, centre-right), 289 seats total. Generally speaking largest party in the populated southwest (six regions).
SDP (Social Democrats, centre-left), 275 seats total. A major party in a belt across southern Finland, largest party in four regions.
KESK (Centre, nordic agrarian), 297 seats total. They are the largest party in middle and northern Finland, except for the coast of Ostrobothnia (west coast).
PS (Finns, right-wing), 156 seats total. “We were against this whole thing, we were the protest party, but instead people didn’t vote as a protest so that means we actually won.”
VAS (Left Alliance, left-wing / academic left), 100 seats. Traditionally strong where there’s heavy industry.
VIHR (Greens, green left), 90 seats. They are popular in Helsinki so suffered heavily in the nationwide results, and their other strong locations (such as Jyväskylä) are not as large compared to surrounding countryside.
RKP (Swedish People’s Party, liberal, Swedish minority): 77 seats. They want to keep the Swedish-speaking services, and they are the largest party in Swedish-speaking Eastern Uusimaa (or should I say Östra Nyland?) and Pohjanmaa (Österbotten). They have an absolute majority in Pohjanmaa.
“Others” (probably independents and the like): 8 seats
“Also ran” (no seats): The Crystal Party (“guess what they would use for healing”), Finnish Communist Party, Pirate Party, Liberal Party, Animal Rights Party, Open Party (split from Pirates?), Blue Reform (split from Finns), Finnish Nation First (extreme right), Citizen’s Party (centre populist).
KOK and KEK should form a coalition
Why didn’t you bother to actually explain the figures and the whole election in this post? These are just numbers and dozens of people had to ask what they mean.
e. Also it should’ve been explained that this does not reflect the general approval of these parties and PS and vihr would normally have much higher figures while Kesk, SDP and Kok would have a bit lower figures.
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Last night’s elections was to elect councillors and deputy councillors for the welfare regions. A welfare region is the level of government that will be introduced by the reform of the social services.
KOK is short for Kokoomus (National Coalition Party in English) is a party that advocates smart economic discipline and wants to allow private healthcare companies to take part of producing healthcare services for the new welfare regions.
Here’s the source in Finnish
https://www.iltalehti.fi/aluevaalit-2022/tulospalvelu#/
Finland’s getting kok?
As far as i could gather with google, the top 3 and 2 are center left parties, while the no. 1 ist neo-liberal. Is that true?
And is the Overall “winner” ,the one who will lead the government with it’s coalition, allready clear now?
Edit: thanks for the clarification that this is a minor election and not the one for the government. Shows how uninformed i am… but is useful to see changes in the political landscape
Oh KOK
Please give me K O K
Vas ?
Surprisingly good result for KESK and bad for PS. Aren’t the polling numbers the other way around for the general election polls?
Democracy I guess
I am curious to know what KOK and the other top parties stand for
Who ever is posting these statistics needs to translate it to universal language or add explanation, otherwise why post it in r/europe, jus do it in r/finland ….
I’m waiting for a cooperation between Polish PiS and Finnish KOK.
Nice kok
It should be noted that the vote did not take place in Helsinki, so parties that are particularly strong or weak in Helsinki were expected to have slightly different results compared to other elections on that basis alone.
To be noted that the overall voter turnout was only 47.5%.
[Source, in Finnish](https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12282530)
Maybe it’d be a good idea to tell fellow Europeans what we were actually voting for.
*meanwhile myself in Hungary
You guys have democracy?
Nice to see a culinary party win.
Miks ulkomaalasia kiinnostais Suomen aluevaalit ku ei suomalaisiakaan kiinnosta, jos edes tietävät mistä äänestettiin 😀
This is the regional election results. The new “welfare regions” are going to run health, rescue and social services. This has been traditionally done by municipalities, but some are very small and have not voluntarily merged or allied with each other, so as a compromise, the central government created a regional government level.
City of Helsinki forms its own welfare region, directly controlled by the city. Province of Åland similarly.
KOK (National Coalition, centre-right), 289 seats total. Generally speaking largest party in the populated southwest (six regions).
SDP (Social Democrats, centre-left), 275 seats total. A major party in a belt across southern Finland, largest party in four regions.
KESK (Centre, nordic agrarian), 297 seats total. They are the largest party in middle and northern Finland, except for the coast of Ostrobothnia (west coast).
PS (Finns, right-wing), 156 seats total. “We were against this whole thing, we were the protest party, but instead people didn’t vote as a protest so that means we actually won.”
VAS (Left Alliance, left-wing / academic left), 100 seats. Traditionally strong where there’s heavy industry.
VIHR (Greens, green left), 90 seats. They are popular in Helsinki so suffered heavily in the nationwide results, and their other strong locations (such as Jyväskylä) are not as large compared to surrounding countryside.
RKP (Swedish People’s Party, liberal, Swedish minority): 77 seats. They want to keep the Swedish-speaking services, and they are the largest party in Swedish-speaking Eastern Uusimaa (or should I say Östra Nyland?) and Pohjanmaa (Österbotten). They have an absolute majority in Pohjanmaa.
KD (Christian Democrats, conservative, “religious party”): 57 seats.
LN (Movement Now, liberal/direct democracy): 20 seats.
VKK (Power to the People, right-wing): 10 seats.
“Others” (probably independents and the like): 8 seats
“Also ran” (no seats): The Crystal Party (“guess what they would use for healing”), Finnish Communist Party, Pirate Party, Liberal Party, Animal Rights Party, Open Party (split from Pirates?), Blue Reform (split from Finns), Finnish Nation First (extreme right), Citizen’s Party (centre populist).
KOK and KEK should form a coalition
Why didn’t you bother to actually explain the figures and the whole election in this post? These are just numbers and dozens of people had to ask what they mean.
e. Also it should’ve been explained that this does not reflect the general approval of these parties and PS and vihr would normally have much higher figures while Kesk, SDP and Kok would have a bit lower figures.