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1927 Finnish parliamentary election

General election

Field	Value
country	Finland
flag_year	state-1920
type	parliamentary
previous_election	1924 Finnish parliamentary election
previous_year	1924
next_election	1929 Finnish parliamentary election
next_year	1929
seats_for_election	All 200 seats in the Parliament of Finland
majority_seats	101
election_date	1–2 July 1927
image_size	130x130px
image1	Museovirasto.A9C413B554AFAA4D65AB3008AD4E4233-0-original.jpg
leader1	Matti Paasivuori
party1	Social Democratic Party of Finland
last_election1	29.02%, 60 seats
seats1	60
popular_vote1	257,572
percentage1	28.30%
swing1	0.72pp
image2	Pekka Ville Heikkinen, 1958 (cropped).jpg
leader2	Pekka Heikkinen
party2	Agrarian League (Finland)
last_election2	20.25%, 44 seats
seats2	52
popular_vote2	205,313
percentage2	22.56%
seat_change2	8
swing2	2.31pp
image3	Kyösti Haataja 1917.jpg
leader3	Kyösti Haataja
party3	National Coalition Party
last_election3	18.99%, 38 seats
seats3	34
popular_vote3	161,450
percentage3	17.74%
seat_change3	4
swing3	1.25pp
image4	3x4.svg
leader4	Eric von Rettig
party4	Swedish People's Party of Finland
last_election4	12.03%, 23 seats
seats4	24
popular_vote4	111,005
percentage4	12.20%
seat_change4	1
swing4	0.17pp
seat_change1
party5	STPV
last_election5	10.45%, 18 seats
seats5	20
seat_change5	2
popular_vote5	109,939
percentage5	12.08%
swing5	1.63pp
before_election	Väinö Tanner
title	Prime Minister
before_party	Social Democratic Party of Finland
posttitle	Prime Minister after election
after_election	Juho Sunila
after_party	Agrarian League (Finland)
image6	OskariMantere.jpg
leader6	Oskari Mantere
party6	National Progressive Party (Finland)
last_election6	9.09%, 17 seats
seats6	10
seat_change6	7
popular_vote6	61,613
percentage6	6.77%
swing6	2.32pp

Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 July 1927. Although the Social Democratic Party remained the largest in Parliament with 60 of the 200 seats, Juho Sunila of the Agrarian League formed an Agrarian minority government in December 1927. It remained intact until December 1928. Voter turnout was 55.8%.

Background

Finland was governed during the 1927 election by a Social Democratic minority government led by Väinö Tanner. President Lauri Kristian Relander, an Agrarian, had supported the establishment of that minority government, after the Agrarian Prime Minister Kyösti Kallio's first government had been defeated in a vote of confidence in November 1926. He had advised Tanner to prepare a liberal and moderate government programme, which the Agrarians and Progressives could support. In April 1927 President Relander caught a cold which developed into a life-threatening pneumonia. He had to go on sick leave, and Tanner became the Acting President. He even received the centre-right Civil Guards' (Suojeluskunnat in Finnish; a voluntary Finnish men's paramilitary defence organization) salute on the Defence Forces' Flag Day (then held on 16 May). The bourgeois (non-socialist) parties tried to get back into power by persuading enough Finnish voters to reject the Social Democratic minority government.

Results

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p606 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
Nohlen & Stöver, p614
Seppo Zetterberg et al., eds., A Small Giant of the Finnish History / Suomen historian pikkujättiläinen, Helsinki: WSOY, 2003
Sakari Virkkunen, Finland's Presidents I / Suomen presidentit I, Helsinki: WSOY, 1994
Tilastokeskus 2004
Matti Lackman: Taistelu talonpojasta (Pohjoinen 1985), p133

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