Biaudet's campaign priciest per vote
The campaign of Swedish People's Party candidate Eva Biaudet was the most expensive in terms of the number of votes garnered. Biaudet's campaign cost 440,000 euros, which corresponds to five euros and 33 cents per vote cast for her.
She ended up with the second-lowest vote total: 82,581. Her voting support was 2.7 percent, indicating that less than half of voters from Finland's Swedish-speaking minority voted for her.
However she did win in the Swedish-speaking island province of Åland as well as in some small municipalities on the west coast.
Second-place winner Pekka Haavisto of the Greens ran the most efficient campaign, with a budget of a quarter-million euros -- or 44 cents per vote.
The second priciest campaign in terms of votes was that of the SDP's éminence grise, Paavo Lipponen. With support from several unions, he spent 700,000 euros, which works out to 3.41 euros per vote. His fifth-place result was a crushing defeat for the Social Democrats, who have controlled the Presidential Palace since long-time President Urho Kekkonen resigned 30 years ago -- nearly to the day. He stepped down due to ill health on January 27, 1982.
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