Template:Finnish presidential election, 2006, first round

e•d Summary of the first round results in the Finnish presidential election, 2006
Candidate	Nominating party	Votes 1st round	%
Tarja Halonen	Social Democratic Party	1,397,030	46.3
Sauli Niinistö	National Coalition Party	725,866	24.1
Matti Vanhanen	Centre Party	561,990	18.6
Heidi Hautala	Green League	105,248	3.5
Timo Soini	True Finns	103,492	3.4
Bjarne Kallis	Christian Democrats	61,483	2.0
Henrik Lax	Swedish People's Party	48,703	1.6
Arto Lahti	(independent)	12,989	0.4
Source: Ministry of Justice ^[3]