16.12.2025 at 12.00
Election campaign and political party funding report, Report to Parliament

Report on the oversight of election campaign funding in the 2025 municipal elections

All the 16,388 municipal council members and alternate members elected in the 2025 municipal elections have filed the statutory election funding disclosure with the National Audit Office of Finland (NAOF).

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The NAOF oversaw

that all those subject to the disclosure obligation file an election funding disclosure.
that the election funding disclosures provide accurate and complete information
that the election funding disclosures are filed within the prescribed time.

Key findings

All municipal council members and alternate members have filed the election funding disclosure required under the Act on a Candidate’s Election Funding.
85% filed the election funding disclosure by the prescribed time.
The average election campaign amounted to EUR 614.
The average campaign costs increased compared with the 2021 municipal elections, when the average election campaign was EUR 451.

In brief

Based on the election funding disclosures, the total election funding of those subject to the disclosure obligation amounted to EUR 10.2 million. Of the total funding, outside contributions constituted 40%, i.e. EUR 4.1 million. 50% of the donors of external contributions had been named in the election funding disclosures.

Half of the donors of external contributions had been named in the election funding disclosures.

The National Audit Office had to send a reminder to 2,331 persons subject to the disclosure obligation to file the election funding disclosure and a second reminder to 698 persons subject to the disclosure obligation. In the end, 141 persons subject to the disclosure obligation were also sent a request for comments, which is served prior to the imposition of a penalty payment. In addition, a penalty payment was imposed on one person subject to the disclosure obligation to compel submission of the election funding disclosure, but the disclosure in question was filed with the NAOF before it was necessary to proceed to the next stage in the penalty payment process.

After examining the disclosures and the additional information and additions provided by those subject to the disclosure obligation, the NAOF is not aware of any matters on the basis of which it would have any reason to doubt the accuracy of the disclosures received.