Checklist of election campaign funding for a candidate in both the county and municipal elections

Use the service portal

In the 2025 county and municipal elections, advance disclosures and actual election funding disclosures are submitted to the National Audit Office. All disclosures are filed primarily in the electronic service portal. To login to the service portal, you need your personal banking IDs, an electronic ID card or a mobile certificate. In the service portal, you can also supplement a disclosure you have filed, if necessary.

All candidates can file an advance disclosure

An advance disclosure is voluntary and can be filed by any candidate before the election day. Candidates standing in both the concurrent elections should file separate advance disclosures for the elections. You can file an advance disclosure in the service portal until midnight on 12 April 2025. Advance disclosures in paper format must reach the National Audit Office of Finland by 15:00 on 11 April 2025. If you wish to file an advance disclosure in paper format, use form 2 (in Finnish) for the county elections and form 3 (in Finnish) for the municipal elections.

The election campaign period starts six months before the election day

In the election funding disclosure, the candidate discloses both the election campaign costs for the election campaign period and the election funding to cover the campaign costs. The campaign period begins six months before the election day and ends two weeks after the election day. The campaign period for the 2025 county and municipal elections is from 13 October 2024 to 27 April 2025.

Monitor your election campaign costs and the contributions you receive from the beginning of the campaign

Systematic monitoring of costs and funding from the beginning of the election campaign makes it easier to file the election funding disclosure. Monitoring also clarifies the difference between, for example, your private expenses and your election campaign costs.

If you are elected as a council member or alternate member, you must file an election funding disclosure

If you are a candidate at the same time in both the county elections and the municipal elections and you are elected as a council member or alternate member in one or both of the elections, you are obliged to disclose your election campaign funding for both elections. You should disclose your election campaign funding for both elections in one disclosure.

You can file the election funding disclosure in the service portal until midnight on 16 June 2025. If you file the election funding disclosure in paper format, the disclosure must reach the National Audit Office by 15:00 on 16 June 2025. Election funding disclosures received after that will be marked as late. You must file an election funding disclosure even if you have had no campaign costs or election campaign funding to be disclosed. If you file the election funding disclosure in writing in paper format, use form 1 (in Finnish).

Disclosure limits in the election funding disclosure

You must disclose the name of an individual donor in the election funding disclosure if the contributions you have received from them amount to at least EUR 800. The maximum value of contributions that may be accepted from a single donor is EUR 9,000 (EUR 6,000 in county elections and EUR 3,000 in municipal elections).

If you have taken out a loan for the county and/or municipal elections

If you are a candidate in both elections and have taken out a loan to cover the campaign costs in the county elections, do not forget to file post-election reports on the amortisation of the loan. Candidates in the concurrent county and municipal elections are subject to the obligation to file post-election disclosures only for loans taken out for the county elections. The National Audit Office will issue separate instructions on the filing of post-election reports later and send them to everyone subject to the obligation to file post-election reports in the 2025 county elections.