Parliamentary election in Finland 1930

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Result (in%)

 %

40

30th

20th

10

0

34.2

27.3

18.1

10.0

5.8

1.9

1.0

1.7

SDP

ML

COOK

RKP

ED

SPP

STPV

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 1929

 % p

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-10

-12

-14

+6.8

+1.1

+3.6

-1.5

+0.2

+0.8

-12.5

+1.5

SDP

ML

COOK

RKP

ED

SPP

STPV

Otherwise.

Distribution of seats

     

A total of 200 seats

• SDP : 66
• Otherwise: 13
• RKP : 20
• ML : 59
• KOK : 42

The parliamentary elections in Finland in 1930 ( Finnish Eduskuntavaalit 1930 ; Swedish Riksdagsvalet 1930 ) took place on October 1 and 2, 1930. It was the election for the 14th Finnish Parliament .

President Lauri Kristian Relander had previously dissolved parliament, which was in a serious dispute over the communist laws.

The Social Democrats, who had lost their position as the strongest party in parliament in 1929, added almost seven percentage points. The Landbund gained votes slightly, but not to the same extent as the Social Democrats. The National Collection Party was able to increase its number of seats in parliament by 14 to 42. The Swedish left was represented with a seat in parliament. The disbanded socialist workers 'and peasants' electoral alliance no longer took part, and an unofficial list of successors could not make it into the Reichstag.

Participating parties

Eight different parties and an alliance ran for election:

Political party		Alignment	Top candidate
	Social Democratic Party of Finland Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue (SDP) Finlands Socialdemokratiska Parti	social democratic	Kaarlo Harvala
	Landbund Maalaisliitto (ML) Agrarförbundet	social liberal	Petter Heikkinen
	National Collection Party Kansallinen Kokoomus (KOK) Samlingspartiet	conservative	Kyösti Haataja
	Socialist workers 'and peasants' election organization Sosialistinen Työvänen ja Pienviljelijöiden Vaalijärjestö (STPV)	socialist
	Swedish People's Party Ruotsalainen Kansanpuolue (RKP) Svenska Folkpartiet (SFP)	liberal	Eric from Rettig
	National Progressive Party Kansallinen Edistyspuolue (ED) Framstegspartiet	liberal	Valto Tuomioja
	Small farmers' party of Finland Suomen Pienviljelijäin Puolue (SPP)	Left
	Swedish left Ruotsalainen Vasemmisto (RV) Svensk Vänster (SV)	republican
	Patriotic electoral alliance / small groups Isänmaallisen Vaaliliiton / Pienryhmät

Election result

The turnout was 65.9 percent, 10.3 percentage points higher than the turnout in the last parliamentary election in 1929.

Result of the parliamentary election in Finland in 1930

Political party		be right			Seats
		number	%	+/-	number	+/-
	Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP)	386.026	34.16	+6.80	66	+7
	Land Federation (ML)	308.280	27.28	+1.13	59	−1
	National Collection Party (KOK)	203,958	18.05	+3.54	42	+14
	Swedish People's Party (RKP)	113,318	10.03	−1.42	20th	−3
	National Progressive Party (ED)	65,830	5.83	+0.23	11	+4
	Small Farmers Party of Finland (SPP)	20,883	1.85	+0.77	1	+1
	Socialist workers 'and peasants' election organization (STPV)	11,504	1.02	−12.45	-	−23
	Swedish Left (RV)	9.226	0.82	+0.82	1	+1
	Patriotic electoral alliance / small groups	9,085	0.80	-	-	-
	Others	1.918	0.17	−0.09	-	-
total		1,130,028	100.00		200
Valid votes		1,130,028	99.51
Invalid votes		5,517	0.49
voter turnout		1,135,545	65.92
Eligible voters		1,722,588	100.00
Source:

After the election

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud had become Prime Minister on July 4th and led his bourgeois government consisting of the Progress Party, the Swedish People's Party, the Land Association and the Collection Party until March 21, 1931. From then on, Juho Sunila (Land League) ruled for 635 days until December 14, 1932. Toivo Kivimäki (Progressive Party) then took over the office of Prime Minister and stayed in this office for four years.

Overview:

18. Cabinet Svinhufvud II - Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (Kok.) - Government: Kok., Ed., ML, RKP ( July 4, 1930 to March 21, 1931 )
19. Cabinet Sunila II - Juho Sunila (ML) - Government: ML, Kok., Ed., RKP ( March 21, 1931 to December 14, 1932 )
20. Kivimäki Cabinet - Toivo Kivimäki (Ed.) - Government: Ed., ML, Kok., RKP ( December 14, 1932 to October 7, 1936 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Official result of the 1930 parliamentary election yle.fi (Finnish)
2. ↑ Eduskuntavaalit 1907–2003 ( Memento of January 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), vaalit.fi, PDF file (Finnish)
3. ↑ Eduskuntavaalit vuonna 1930 doria.fi , PDF file (Finnish)