Communist Party of Finland
Suomen Communists Puolue Finlands Kommunistiska Parti Communist Party of Finland |
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Party leader | Juha-Pekka Väisänen |
Secretary General | Heikki Ketoharju |
vice-chairman |
Emmi Tuomi Pauli Schradrin |
founding | 1986 (SKPy) 1994 (SKP) 1997 (registration) |
Headquarters | Haapaniemenkatu 7-9 B FIN - 00530 Helsinki |
Alignment | communism |
Colours) | Red gold |
Parliament seats |
0/200 |
International connections | International meeting of communist and workers' parties |
MEPs |
0/14 |
European party | European left |
Website | www.skp.fi |
The Communist Party of Finland ( Finnish : Suomen Kommunistinen puolue , SKP, Swedish : Finlands Kommunistiska Parti , FKP) is a small Finnish party . It was founded in 1986 as the Communist Party of Finland (Unity) and was given its current name in 1994 without the addition of brackets. The party leader is Juha-Pekka Väisänen , who was elected in June 2013 to succeed Yrjö Hakanen , who had previously led the party since 1990.
The "new" Communist Party of Finland sees itself in the tradition of the Communist Party of Finland founded in Moscow in 1918 . With 3,000 members in around 100 basic groups, their influence is minimal. In the Finnish parliamentary elections in 2011, it did not get a seat with 0.3% of the votes cast and currently has two members in local parliaments. The SKP publishes the weekly newspaper Tiedonantaja .
At the international level, the Communist Party of Finland has been organized in the European Left since 2004 .
Election results
Results of parliamentary elections
year | MPs | be right | Percentage |
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1999 | - | 20,442 | 0.9% |
2003 | - | 21,079 | 0.9% |
2007 | - | 18,277 | 0.7% |
2011 | - | 9,232 | 0.3% |
2015 | - | 7,529 | 0.3% |
2019 | - | 4,305 | 0.1% |
Results in local elections
year | MPs | be right | Percentage |
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2000 | 14th | 10,460 | 0.5% |
2004 | 16 | 12,844 | 0.5% |
2008 | 9 | 13,986 | 0.6% |
2012 | 9 | 11,174 | 0.4% |
2017 | 2 | 7,600 | 0.3% |
Results of elections to the European Parliament
year | MPs | be right | Percentage |
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1999 | - | 7,556 | 0.6% |
2004 | - | 10.134 | 0.6% |
2009 | - | 8,089 | 0.5% |
2014 | - | 5,963 | 0.4% |
2019 | - | 3,532 | 0.2% |
Party leader
- 1986–1988: Taisto Sinisalo
- 1988–1989: Jouko Kajanoja
- 1989–1990: Esko-Juhani Tennilä
- 1990–2013: Yrjö Hakanen
- 2013–: Juha-Pekka Väisänen
General Secretaries
- 1986–1988: Jouko Kajanoja
- 1988–1990: Yrjö Hakanen
- 1990-2010: Arto Viitaniemi
- 2010–2013: Juha-Pekka Väisänen
- 2013–: Heikki Ketoharju