Schedule for the 2024 presidential election
Election day for the 2024 presidential election is Sunday 28 January 2024. Accordingly, the other important dates are as follows:
| Monday 12 December 2022 at the earliest |
Constituency associations may start collecting signatures for support cards |
| Friday 28 July 2023 |
Campaign period under the Act on a Candidate’s Election Funding and the Act on Political Parties begins |
| Saturday 28 October 2023 |
Service for ordering postal voting documents abroad opens |
| Friday 8 December 2023 |
Date for collecting data for the voting register (to determine the municipality of residence of each eligible voter for election purposes) |
| by 16.00 on Tuesday 12 December 2023 |
Deadline for submitting candidate applications to the Constituency Electoral Committee of Helsinki |
| Thursday 21 December 2023 |
The Constituency Electoral Committee of Helsinki confirms the nomination of candidates Candidate numbers for the presidential candidates are published |
| Tuesday 16 January 2024 |
Voting register becomes legally valid |
| Tuesday 16 January 2024 at 16.00 |
Registration for at-home voting ends |
| From Wednesday 17 January to Tuesday 23 January 2024 |
Advance voting in Finland |
| From Wednesday 17 January to Saturday 20 January 2024 |
Advance voting abroad |
| Sunday 28 January 2024 at 9.00–20.00 |
Election day voting |
| Tuesday 30 January 2024 |
Election results are confirmed and or 2) the Ministry of Justice declares that none of the candidates received more than half of the votes cast and that a second election between the two candidates who received the most votes will be held on Sunday 11 February 2024 |
Possible second election
| Tuesday 30 January 2024 at 16.00 |
Registration for at-home voting in the possible second election (second round) ends |
| From Wednesday 31 January to Tuesday 6 February 2024 |
Advance voting in the possible second election in Finland |
| From Wednesday 31 January to Saturday 3 February 2024 |
Advance voting in the possible second election abroad |
| Sunday 11 February 2024 at 9.00–20.00 |
Election day voting in the possible second election |
| Wednesday 14 February 2024 |
The results of the possible second election are confirmed |
Schedule in the Presidential Election
According to the Finnish Constitution the President of the Republic is elected by a direct vote for a term of six years. The election day in the first round is the fourth Sunday of January. If none of the candidates has received a majority of the votes cast, a new election shall be held on the second Sunday after the first election between the two candidates who received most votes in the first election.
The next presidential election will be held in 2024.