HYY Representative Council Elections 2022
Vote in the Representative Council elections 26–28 October & 31 October–2 November!
HYY's Representative Council Elections 2022
Build the student union of your dreams by voting in the Representative Council elections! What makes a perfect student union? Is it impactful advocacy work, stunning student events, outstanding organisational premises for all, changing the world or brilliant business – or all of the above?
Vote in the Representative Council elections
You can vote electronically at vaalit.hyy.fi from Wednesday to Friday on 26–28 October and from Monday to Wednesday on 31 October–2 November at 10 AM to 8 PM. Voting is done using your University user account, and you are entitled to vote in the elections if you are a basic degree student and have registered for attendance or if you are a postgraduate or exchange student who has become a member of HYY.
You can find the list of candidates in a separate PDF file below.
To thank you for using your vote and to honour Finnish election traditions UniCafe will offer everyone who has voted coffee and buns. Coffee and buns are served in all open UniCafes (26–28 October and 31 October–2 November). You can claim your coffee and bun by showing the email that you receive once you’ve voted. You are entitled to one coffee and bun only.
Candidates in the Representative Council elections may form various electoral coalitions. The representatives of the coalitions can give you an invitation code required to become their candidate.
Electoral coalitions may form larger entities among themselves. These are known as electoral alliances.
The following electoral coalitions have currently been established for the elections:
Edistykselliset
- Keskeiset (Anna Alaraappana, anna.alaraappana@helsinki.fi)
- Kokoomus (Mikko Kanervo, mikko.kanervo@helsinki.fi)
HELP
- HELP LKS ja HLKS (Joonatan Haapalainen, joonatan.haapalainen@gmail.com)
- HELP Pykälä/Codex/Justus (Joonatan Haapalainen, joonatan.haapalainen@gmail.com)
- HELP YFK and EKY (Joonatan Haapalainen, joonatan.haapalainen@gmail.com)
HYAL
- HYAL Keskustakampus (Jonna Rättyä, vaalit@hyal.fi)
- HYAL Viikki-Kumpula- Meilahti (Jonna Rättyä, vaalit@hyy.fi)
Maailmanpyörä
- HYYn Vihreät – De Gröna vid HUS – Helsinki University Greens (Teemu Kovanen)
- Opiskelijoiden Sosialidemokraattinen Yhdistys (Joanna Ahola, joanna.ahola@helsinki.fi)
- Sitoutumaton vasemmisto (Jonna Rajala, jonna.x.rajala@helsinki.fi)
Osakunnat & Svenska Nationer Ämnesföreningar
- Osakunnat 1 (Sanni Nieminen, unioni-hallitus@helsinki.fi)
- Osakunnat 2 (Emilia Roponen, osakunnat-pj@helsinki.fi)
- Svenska Nationer och Ämnesföreningar (Aravind Krishnan, aravindk358@gmail.com)
How would You build the Student Union of your dreams?
Watch the recording of election panel recording here!
How should the Student Union’s finances be developed? Representatives from different electoral coalitions will answer these and many other questions in our election panel.
HYY is organising an election panel where the spotlight is on panellists from various electoral coalitions. The panel includes the panellists’ free-form introductions, questions from the hosts and questions from the audience.
What: Election panel organised by HYY. The Representative Council elections have many kinds of candidates running – come and listen to the representatives of different electoral coalitions describe how they would build the Student Union of their dreams!
Where: The panel is a hybrid event – it is held both at Think Corner on the City Centre campus and on Stream.
When: 5–7 pm on 24 October.
Why: To make it slightly easier to find your candidate.
Accessibility: All premises at Think Corner are accessible. The accessible entrance is through the lobby with lifts located at the corner of Yliopistonkatu and Fabianinkatu. Lifts are available for moving between the floors. Floors K1 and 2 have physically accessible toilet premises.
HYY's Representative Council election info session
7 Sept at 5.30 PM
The nomination of candidates ends
28 Sept at 12 noon
Election panel
24 Oct at 5-7 PM
1. voting week
26-28 Oct at 10 AM – 8 PM
2. voting week
31 Oct – 2 Nov at 10 AM – 8 PM
Election night party
2 Nov 8 PM – 11 PM
Election night party
Join our election night party!How will the seats in the Representative Council be distributed? Who will get the most votes?Share the excitement over the election result with us on Wednesday 2 November at Dylan Marmoripiha (at Keskuskatu 3A, Helsinki). The premises are accessible. HYY will offer an election drink to the first 50 people to arrive.The election night party will begin at 8.00 pm and include discussion on the pre-election state of play as well as the history of the elections. The election result will be published by 9.30 pm. In addition to analysis of the results, we will also get to hear comments from the groups and candidates themselves. The event lasts until 11 pm.
Registering as the representative of an electoral coalition
Inform the election coordinator (vaalit@hyy.fi) that you will be acting as the representative of electoral coalition x. The election coordinator will create a representative account for the coalition’s representative to help them administer the coalition. Before receiving the account, however, each representative of an electoral coalition must first undergo short training on using the system with the election coordinator, through Zoom, for instance. Once the electoral coalition has been added into the system, candidates will be able to register as its candidates.
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