For Voters

The elections are not possible without ISYY members showing their interest in the elections and turning up to vote. Therefore, remember to take advantage of your right to vote and make sure your favourite candidate gets elected. Read on to find out how.

Reasons to Vote in the Representative Council Elections

The Representative Council elections are the most important elections of your time as a student. You get to choose the people who make decisions concerning the Student Union (ISYY) and the services that are offered to you as a member. For instance, the Representative Council determines the strategy of ISYY and the amount of the membership fee, and cooperates with the decision-making bodies of UEF.

If your own well-being and interests are important to you, choose the candidate who best represents your views and vote, because nobody else will do it for you!

How to Vote and when?

You can vote during the advance voting period from 27 to 31 of October and on the election day on 6 November in ISYY's electric election system. Advance voting starts at 9:00 am on Monday 27 October 2025, and ends at 2:00 pm on Friday 31 October 2025. On the election day, 6 November 2025, voters can vote online from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm.

Where Can I Find the Candidates?

You can see the Candidate Lists on the ISYY website and on bulletin boards.

A Candidate Gallery is also available in ISYY's electronical voting system from 15 October to 6 November. You can find all the candidates and their candidate numbers from the website. If the Candidate has chosen to add their picture and introduction text to the Candidate gallery you can also find them there.

If you do not know who to vote for, you can find your favourite candidate with the help of a Voting Aid.

Link to the ISYY Representative Council Elections 2025 Voting Aid

Instructions for voting in 2025

1. Signing in to electrical voting system

• Electrical voting is done in the electronic voting system at https://isyy-vaalit.uef.fi.
• Only members of the Student Union of the University of Eastern Finland who have registered as attending at the University of Eastern Finland by Monday 20 October 2025 have the right to vote in the Student Union’s Representative Council Elections. You need to have a working UEF user account for voting. During the voting, a secure connection is used between your web browser and the electrical voting system. As a sign of this, a URL starting with 'https' and a padlock icon are visible in the web browser's address bar throughout the voting process (depending on the web browser used).
• Click the logo of the University of Eastern Finland and sign in to the voting using your university user account and password (the same account you use to login to University's intranet or Elearn environment).
• Note: If you have already logged in to UEF services from the same browser (another window or tab) with your account (Elearn, Intranet, or such), you will be moved to the voting page without signing in.
• After a successful sign in, you may be asked for your approval of your personal information transfer. After pushing the ‘Confirm’ button you will be directed automatically to the voting page, and your student id is used to check if you are eligible to vote in this election.

2. Choosing a candidate

• Voting is done by typing the number of your chosen candidate to the text field on the page. After you have written the number of the candidate, press the 'Continue’ button. You can give an empty vote by leaving the text field empty. Please note that the voting system does not accept falsely entered numbers (letters or numbers that are not numbers of the candidates).
• Please note that to keep your vote a secret, you need to be sure that no one else can see what number you choose, for example, by looking over your shoulder. The electrical voting system does not connect voters and votes. This means that you cannot change your vote later, so be sure that you keep your vote a secret.

2.1. Stopping voting in the middle of voting process

If you want to stop voting, you can press the ‘Exit’ button. After that you are asked for a confirmation for stopping your voting. By pressing the ‘Exit voting’ button you will be signed out from the voting system. By pressing the ‘Continue voting’ button you can continue voting. If you stopped voting during this step, you can continue voting later.

3. Confirming your vote

You can confirm your vote by pressing the ‘Confirm vote’ button. During this step you can come back to choosing your candidate by pressing the ‘Change candidate’ button.

4. Completed voting

After you have confirmed your vote, the system will confirm your successful voting. You can only vote once so the system does not allow you to change your vote during this step. During this step the connection to the voting system is disconnected. You can make sure that the connection is disconnected by closing your web browser.

5. Troubleshooting

Get in contact with the electrical voting system administrator Ilkka Jormanainen (050 367 5577, ilkka.jormanainen@uef.fi). Send a detailed description of your problem and the error message.

 

More information concerning the elections can be asked from:

Julia Lautala, Chairperson of the Central Election Committee, kvl.pj(at)isyy.fi

Emma Ohtonen, Coordinator of the Representative Council elections, tel. +358 44 576 8450, vaalikoordinaattori(at)isyy.fi

Elina Pitkänen, Coordinator of International Affairs and Administration, tel. +358 44 576 8413, kv.kuopio(at)isyy.fi

 

This page was updated last on 27.10.2025