Holding the Election
The Ministry of Justice is responsible for carrying out the election.
In addition to the Ministry of Justice statutory duties are carried out by
- the Electoral District Committee of Helsinki (candidate nomination and confirmation of the election result in the whole country)
- all electoral district committees (counting of the result)
- the central election committees of the municipalities (the arrangements for the election in the municipalities),
- election committees (voting on election day on the polling stations),
- election commissioners (advance voting at advance polling stations)
- electoral commissions (voting in prisons, hospitals etc. and voting at home)
- The Digital and Population Data Services Agency (duties in connection to the voting register)