Parliamentary election in Finland 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 .
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 | |
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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.
Political party | be right | Seats | ||
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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
- ↑ a b c Official result of the 1907 general election yle.fi (Finnish)
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Jad Adams: Women and the Vote. A world history. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-870684-7 , page 181.
- ↑ Eduskuntavaalit 1907–2003 ( Memento of January 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), vaalit.fi, PDF file (Finnish)
- ↑ Eduskuntavaalit 1907 ja 1908 doria.fi , PDF file (Finnish)