Type: | presidential |
Election Date: | 11 June 2016 |
Previous Year: | 2014 |
Candidate1: | Petteri Orpo |
Image1: | 160px |
Popular Vote1: | 396.8 (1st round) 441.4 (2nd round) |
Percentage1: | 48.8% (1st round) 55.0% (2nd round) |
Candidate2: | Alexander Stubb |
Popular Vote2: | 294.4 (1st round) 361 (2nd round) |
Percentage2: | 36.2% (1st round) 45.0% (2nd round) |
Candidate3: | Elina Lepomäki |
Popular Vote3: | 122.4 (1st round) |
Chair | |
Before Election: | Alexander Stubb |
After Election: | Petteri Orpo |
The National Coalition Party leadership election, 2016 was held in Lappeenranta, Finland on 11 June 2016, to elect the chair of the National Coalition Party. In the election, Alexander Stubb, the incumbent party chair and Minister of Finance, was defeated by Petteri Orpo, the Minister of the Interior. Elina Lepomäki, a Member of the Parliament, finished third.[1] [2] After the leadership election, Orpo took Stubb's post as the Minister of Finance.
This was the first time when an incumbent chair of the National Coalition Party lost a leadership election.[3]