The biggest opposition party in Finland, the Social Democrats (SDP), moves into the lead in an opinion poll for the first time since February 2017 thanks to today’s survey from Taloustutkimus for national broadcaster YLE. With an uptick of 2.3 points compared to the February YLE poll, the SDP are above 20 per cent of […]
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Election result: Finnish Presidency 2018
Incumbent Sauli Niinisto made political history in Finland yesterday by becoming the only winner on the first round of voting since direct Presidential elections were introduced in 1994. Sweeping to victory with a crushing 62.6 per cent of the vote, the conservative National Coalition (KOK) candidate, running as a nominal independent, lived up to his […]
Niinisto still cruising towards Finnish Presidency
With just over three weeks until Finland elects a new President, incumbent Sauli Niinisto continues to obliterate his seven opponents in voting intention polls. Today’s survey from Taloustutkimus for national broadcaster YLE places the former National Coalition Party (KOK) politician, now running as a nominal independent, on 72 per cent. That is down by eight […]
New polling low for Finland’s ruling Centre
There is further opinion poll gloom for Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila today as his Centre Party (KESK) falls to a new low point in this parliamentary term in a Kantar TNS survey for the Helsingin Sanomat. With just 15.1 per cent of voting intentions, KESK stands six points below its actual score in the […]
Conservatives at 2017 high as Centre, Greens slip and SDP recovers
Finland’s centre-right KOK, one of three governing coalition partners, hits a 2017 polling high in today’s monthly survey from Taloustutkimus for YLE, moving up to 21.7 per cent. Meanwhile the centrist KESK, which leads the government under PM Juha Sipila, falls below 16 per cent for the first time this year. It has not slumped […]
Finland’s Greens on an August roll with second storming poll
Any sense that the record opinion poll score for Finland’s Green League published 11 days ago by Taloustutkimus was a one-off is dispelled by today’s survey from the country’s other main pollster, Kantar TNS. For the second time in August the Greens (VIHR) surge into second place and move above 17 per cent of voting […]