Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹Tulospalvelu, ²Reuters, ³Helsinki Times, ???Euronews and ???President of the Republic of Finland.
Following the completion of preliminary calculations, former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb has won the first round of Finland’s presidential election, receiving 27.2% of the popular vote. ¹
With a total turnout of 74.9% (~3.3M votes), Stubb received approximately 882K votes in total, followed by Pekka Haavisto (836K votes, ~26%), Jussi Halla-aho (615K votes, ~19%), and Olli Rehn (497K votes, ~15%). ¹