Election of the President

After receiving the reports referred to in section 141 from all constituency electoral committees, the constituency electoral committee of Helsinki shall, without delay, confirm the final number of votes cast nationally for each candidate in the second round and report the confirmed number of votes immediately to the Government.

On the fourth day after the election day of the second round, the Government shall declare which one of the two candidates has received more votes in the second round of the election and has thus, under the Constitution, been elected President of the Republic. After declaring the election result, the Government shall inform the elected candidate of the result in writing and issue a public notice of the result of the presidential election to be published in the Statute Book of Finland. The number of votes cast nationally for each presidential candidate in the second round shall be mentioned in the public notice. (1258/1999)