The amount of money political parties are planning to spend on next year's municipal and county elections varies widely, according to a party survey by newspaper group Uutissuomalainen (USU).
Voters will head to the polls for both elections on 13 April, 2025. Yle News published this really simple guide to the 2021 local elections, with relevant information, including the main issues of the day, as well as who can vote in them (most residents). Finland held its first county elections in 2022, a race won by the National Coalition Party.
USU's party survey found that Prime Minister Petteri Orpo's centre-right National Coalition Party is digging deepest, with plans to spend around 1.8 million euros on the campaigns.
The nationalist Finns Party, which is a coalition government member, is planning to use more than one million euros.
"Due to the overlapping elections, the budgets are structured a bit differently. The final combined budget will probably be between one and two million euros," said Harri Vuorenpää, the Finns Party's secretary.
Meanwhile, the coalition's Swedish People's Party has a preliminary budget of around 500,000 euros, while its government partner, the Christian Democrats, plans to spend around 240,000 euros, according to the survey.
Finland's biggest opposition party, the Social Democrats, also have plans to be the opposition's biggest campaign spenders, with an estimated budget of 600,000 euros. However the SDP said that the final sum will be fine-tuned in the autumn and winter, USU reported.
The Left Alliance has plans to spend 400,000 euros, while the Greens' preliminary estimate is around 300,000 euros.
Meanwhile, Parliament's smallest party, Movement Now, plans to spend around 100,000 euros, according to USU.
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