Parliamentary election in Finland 1907

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Parliamentary election 19071908
Result (in%)
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
37.0
27.3
13.7
12.6
5.8
1.6
2.0
Otherwise.
Distribution of seats
      
A total of 200 seats
Parliament in the first legislative period in 1907.

The parliamentary elections in Finland in 1907 ( Finnish Eduskuntavaalit 1907 ; Swedish Riksdagsvalet 1907 ) took place on March 15 and 16, 1907. It was the election for the first Finnish parliament .

Swedish People's Party election poster.

It was the first parliamentary election in the Grand Duchy of Finland , which belongs to Russia . In addition, women over the possessed in this election for the first time in Europe active and passive voting rights . All citizens who had reached the age of 24 were entitled to vote. The conditions for the election were laid down in the Electoral Act of July 20, 1906, which guaranteed parliament the power it had demanded from the Russian side. Previously there had been growing opposition to creeping Russification in Finland . The resistance was shown, among other things, in the assassination of the governor general Nikolai Bobrikow (1904) and in the great general strike in Finland in October and November 1905. A manifesto passed by the tsar on the basis of this development laid the foundations for the election of a Finnish parliament.

The Finnish Parliament met for the first time on May 25, 1907. It consisted of 200 members who were originally elected for three years. These included 19 women, including Alexandra Gripenberg and Lucina Hagman . On April 4, 1908, the parliament was dissolved by the Russian tsar because of "anti-state sentiments".

Participating parties

Six different parties ran for election:

Political party Alignment Top candidate
Social Democratic Party of Finland
Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue (SDP)
Finlands Socialdemokratiska Parti
social democratic , socialist Edvard Valpas-Hänninen
Finnish party
Suomalainen Puolue (SP)
Finska partiet
conservative - fennoman
Constitutional-Fennomaniac Party
Perustuslaillis-Suomenmielinen Puolue (NSP)
national liberal , constitutionalist
Swedish People's Party
Ruotsalainen Kansanpuolue (RKP)
Svenska Folkpartiet (SFP)
liberal - svekoman , constitutionalist Axel Lille
Landbund
Maalaisliitto (ML)
Agrarförbundet
social liberal , agrarian Otto Karhi
Christian Workers' Union of Finland
Suomen Kristillisen Työvänen Liitto (KTL)
Finlands kristliga arbetarförbund
Christian Social

Election result

The turnout was 70.7 percent. The Social Democrats emerged as the election winners.

Result of the parliamentary election in Finland in 1907
Political party be right Seats
number %
Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) 329,946 37.03 80
Finnish Party (SP) 243,573 27.34 59
Constitutional Fennomaniac Party (NSP) 121,604 13.65 26th
Swedish People's Party (RKP) 112,267 12.60 24
Land Federation (ML) 51,242 5.75 9
Christian Labor Federation of Finland (KTL) 13,790 1.55 2
Others 18,568 2.08 -
total 890.990 100.00 200
Valid votes 890.990 99.07
Invalid votes 8,357 0.93
voter turnout 899.347 70.65
Eligible voters 1,272,873 100.00
Source:

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Official result of the 1907 general election yle.fi (Finnish)
  2. finnland.de: 100 years of parliament and women's suffrage in Finland Article of the Finnish embassy in Berlin from April 6, 2006 (accessed on April 19, 2011)
  3. ^ Jad Adams: Women and the Vote. A world history. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-870684-7 , page 181.
  4. Eduskuntavaalit 1907–2003 ( Memento of January 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), vaalit.fi, PDF file (Finnish)
  5. Eduskuntavaalit 1907 ja 1908 doria.fi , PDF file (Finnish)