The Finnish voting result for the European Parliament election 2014 was announced on Sunday night, with the National Coalition Party (NCP) taking the lead.

NCP received 22.6 percent of the votes, lower than 23.2 percent in the last election in 2009. The NCP is followed by the Centre, the Finns Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

Both the Center and the Finns Party drew more support than last time with 19.7 percent and 12.9 percent of the votes respectively. However, SDP was the big loser in the election with only 12.3 percent of ballots, 5.2 percent lower than in 2009.

A total of 251 candidates from 14 Finnish political parties have participated in the election this year for only 13 out of the total of 751 seats of the new European Parliament.

Both NCP and the Center got 3 seats each in the next EP, the same as in 2009; the far right Finns Party increased its vote dramatically and will send two MEPs to the EP, one seat more than in the last election; SDP lost one seat from 3 seats in the previous EP.

The rest 3 seats are shared by the Green League, the Left Alliance and the Swedish People's Party.

NCP's MP Alexander Stubb topped the EU poll in Finland, with the Finns Party's Jussi Halla-aho second and the former EU Commissioner Olli Rehn was the third most popular candidate.

Stubb is currently the Finnish minister for European affairs and foreign trade. He was a member of the European Parliament with the European People's Party From 2004 to 2008.

More than 4.4 million Finns were eligible to vote in the election, and the voter turnout was 40.9 percent, slightly higher than 40.3 percent in 2009.

The European Parliament elections 2014 were held during May 22 to 25 to elect a total of 751 members from 28 EU countries. 21 EU member states including Finland voted on Sunday to decide the formation of the new EP for the next term from 2014 to 2019. Endi

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