Communist Party of Finland

This article deals with the current party. For the party that existed from 1918 to 1992, see the Communist Party of Finland (1918) .

Suomen Communists Puolue Finlands Kommunistiska Parti Communist Party of Finland
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
1999	-	20,442	0.9%
2003	-	21,079	0.9%
2007	-	18,277	0.7%
2011	-	09,232	0.3%
2015	-	07,529	0.3%
2019	-	04,305	0.1%

Results in local elections

year	MPs	be right	Percentage
2000	14th	10,460	0.5%
2004	16	12,844	0.5%
2008	09	13,986	0.6%
2012	09	11,174	0.4%
2017	02	07,600	0.3%

Results of elections to the European Parliament

year	MPs	be right	Percentage
1999	-	07,556	0.6%
2004	-	10.134	0.6%
2009	-	08,089	0.5%
2014	-	05,963	0.4%
2019	-	03,532	0.2%

Party leader

• 1986–1988: Taisto Sinisalo
• 1988–1989: Jouko Kajanoja
• 1989–1990: Esko-Juhani Tennilä
• 1990–2013: Yrjö Hakanen
• 2013–: Juha-Pekka Väisänen0000

General Secretaries

• 1986–1988: Jouko Kajanoja
• 1988–1990: Yrjö Hakanen
• 1990-2010: Arto Viitaniemi
• 2010–2013: Juha-Pekka Väisänen
• 2013–: Heikki Ketoharju0000

Web links

• Homepage of the SKP
• Homepage of the newspaper Tiedonantaja