Advance polling stations and polling stations on election day 

Advance polling stations are:

1)  those general advance polling stations in Finland, the number and location of which the local executive determines. Unless there are specific grounds for deciding otherwise, there shall be at least one such advance polling station in eachmunicipality;

2)  Finnish diplomatic missions and their offices as determined by a government decree as well as general advance polling stations for municipal elections in the Province of Åland as specified by government decree;

3)  hospitals, operational units of the social services offering round-the-clock treatment and other units determined by the local executive, as well as prisons (institution);

4)  Finnish ships which are abroad when the advance voting is conducted. (563/2015)

In addition, the advance voting may, under the conditions laid down below, be conducted at the voter's home (at-home voting).

Each voting district has an election day polling station determined by the local executive. For special reasons, the polling station may be located outside the voting district or the municipality, if this does not cause undue difficulty to the voters. (247/2002)

The local executive shall ensure that the name, address, opening days and daily opening hours of each general advance polling station in the municipality and the name and address of the election day polling station and other information specified by the Ministry of Justice are entered in the pollingstationregistermaintainedbythePopulationRegisterCentreinthemannerdeterminedby the Population Register Centre without undue delay. Those general advance polling stations and election day polling stations in Finland which have been entered in the polling station register by the end of the day 51 days prior to the election shall be the polling stations used in theelectioneven if a claim for rectification submitted against the decision of the local executive referred to in this section has not been considered and even if the municipal appeal submitted to an administrative court seeking to amend the decision has not been resolved. A claim for rectification submitted to the local executive and a municipal appeal submitted against a decision of the local executive shall be considered urgently. A decision of the administrative court on the appeal is not subject to appeal. (247/2002)