Elections
Regional and municipal elections will be held simultaneously in April 2025. By voting, you will influence who will decide on important issues that affect everyone's everyday life for the next four years.
- Regional elections elect representatives to the regional council. They decide on the organization of social and health services and rescue services in welfare areas.
- Municipal elections elect councillors to the municipal council. They decide on the municipality's operations and finances.
More information ELECTIONS.FI
Early voting
ADVANCE VOTING IN PUUMILA, Kuruntie 1-3
Early voting in Finland 2–8 April 2025
April 2-4.4, Wednesday-Friday 12-18
5-6.4 April Saturday-Sunday 12-15
7-8.4 April Monday-Tuesday 12-18
Election Day Voting
At the comprehensive school Sunday 13.4.2025 9 AM-20 PM
Home voting
A person who wants to vote in advance at home must: to be notified by Tuesday at the latest April 1, 2025 before 4:00 PM by phone or in writing to the Central Election Commission, tel. 03-44 411, address Kihniöntie 46, 39820 Kihniö. By email at kihnio@kihnio.fi The notification can be made on behalf of the voter by a person chosen by the voter.
Home voting notification forms are available from the municipal office or on the municipality's website, under elections. Home voting is submitted during advance voting. Voters will be notified of the date separately.
You can find the registration form for home voting here. here.
Candidate layout
The municipality of Kihniö forms one unified voting area. In the municipal elections, seventeen (17) councilors and their deputy councilors will be elected for the electoral period 2025-2029. Candidate applications and notifications of electoral alliances and joint lists must be submitted to the Central Election Board before 4.3.2025/16.00/XNUMX at XNUMX:XNUMX PMThese applications are accepted at the municipal office. Monday, March 3, 2025, 1–3 p.m. and Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 2–4 p.m. or at a separately agreed time.
Outdoor election advertising
Municipalities have no legal obligation to organize election advertising, but municipalities have traditionally offered parties and voter associations the opportunity to display candidate posters on racks reserved for them.
According to the Election Act, no speeches may be made, printed or written appeals may be published or distributed during voting time at a general advance voting location or a polling station on election day, or in their immediate vicinity. In practice, this means, among other things, that election advertisements must not be placed in the vicinity of advance voting locations or polling stations in a way that could be considered to influence the voter's choice. In practice, this means that election advertisements must not be visible in the polling station or at its entrance.
The Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities recommends starting outdoor election advertising in areas under the control and management of the municipality one week before the start of early voting, i.e. from 26 March 2025.
The municipality's technical action is to place election billboards along Prunnintie (one location in the municipality). The billboard is double-sided, meaning that two advertising spots are reserved for each party or voter association that has nominated candidates (one-sided). The advertisements are placed by party in the same order as the candidate list combination, read from left to right. The advertisements must be removed by the person placing them within a week of the election being confirmed. The size of the billboard is 80 x 100 cm, with a plywood base to which the advertisement can be attached, for example, with a stapler.
Election advertisements should not be placed in the city center's local plan area (except for the municipal advertising stand), the municipality's recommendation (appendix ).
Roadside advertising and notices are regulated in sections 52 and 52 a of the Roads Act (503/2005). The Finnish Transport Agency provides guidelines for election advertising on roads and outside local plan areas.
Secretary of the Central Election Board Kristiina Mäkelä 044-7541203, email firstname.lastname@kihnio.fi