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

Use the service portal

In the 2025 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. The deadline for filing an advance disclosure in the service portal is 12 April 2025 at midnight. Advance disclosures in paper format must reach the National Audit Office by 15:00 on 11 April 2025. To submit an advance disclosure in paper format, use form 3 (in Finnish).

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 municipal elections 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 in the municipal elections, you must file an election funding 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 OR form 2.

If your election campaign funding is less than EUR 800

If your election funding has been less than EUR 800, it is sufficient to give a written assurance as the election funding disclosure. You can submit the assurance in the service portal. If your election funding has been less than EUR 800 and you wish to submit the written assurance in paper format, use form 2 (in Finnish).

Election funding disclosure when your election campaign funding amounts to EUR 800 or more

If your election campaign funding amounts to EUR 800 or more, you must file a detailed election funding disclosure. You can file a detailed election funding disclosure even if your election campaign funding amounts to less than EUR 800. However, the disclosure must then contain full details. You can file the election funding disclosure in the service portal. If your election campaign funding amounts to EUR 800 or more and you wish to file the disclosure in paper format, use form 1 (in Finnish).

Limits in euros on election campaign funding

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 3,000.