Parliamentary election in Finland 1922

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Result (in%)

 %

30th

20th

10

0

25.1

20.3

18.2

14.8

12.4

9.2

no

SDP

ML

COOK

SSTP

RKP

ED

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 1919

 % p

 16

 14th

 12

 10

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-10

-12

-14

-12.9

+0.6

+3.0

+14.8

+0.3

-3.6

-2.2

SDP

ML

COOK

SSTP

RKP

ED

Otherwise.

Distribution of seats

      

A total of 200 seats

• SSTP : 27
• SDP : 53
• ED : 15
• RKP : 25
• ML : 45
• KOK : 35

The parliamentary elections in Finland in 1922 ( Finnish Eduskuntavaalit 1922 ; Swedish Riksdagsvalet 1922 ) took place on July 1st and 3rd, 1922. It was the election for the 10th Finnish Parliament .

The Social Democrats had to accept a vote loss of almost 13 percentage points and only got eight more seats than the Landbund. The main reason for the loss of votes was the first-time participation of the Socialist Workers' Party of Finland, which received almost 15% of the vote. The Christian Workers' Union, on the other hand, no longer took part in the parliamentary elections due to its criticism of the electoral law, which in its opinion left smaller parties with little chance.

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	Väinö Tanner
	Landbund Maalaisliitto (ML) Agrarförbundet	social liberal	Petter Heikkinen
	National Collection Party Kansallinen Kokoomus (KOK) Samlingspartiet	conservative	Antti Tulenheimo
	National Progressive Party Kansallinen Edistyspuolue (ED) Framstegspartiet	liberal	Oskari Mantere
	Swedish People's Party Ruotsalainen Kansanpuolue (RKP) Svenska Folkpartiet (SFP)	liberal	Eric from Rettig
	Socialist Workers' Party of Finland Suomen Sosialistinen Työvänenpuolue (SSTP) Finlands Socialistiska Arbetarparti	socialist	Toivo Hjalmar Långström

Election result

The turnout was 58.5 percent, 8.6 percentage points below the turnout in the last parliamentary election in 1919.

Result of the parliamentary election in Finland in 1922

Political party		be right			Seats
		number	%	+/-	number	+/-
	Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP)	216,861	25.06	−12.92	53	−27
	Land Federation (ML)	175.401	20.27	+0.57	45	+3
	National Collection Party (KOK)	157.116	18.15	+2.44	35	+7
	Socialist Workers' Party of Finland (SSTP)	128.181	14.81	+14.81	27	+27
	Swedish People's Party (RKP)	107,414	12.41	+0.28	25th	+4
	National Progressive Party (ED)	79,676	9.21	−3.60	15th	−11
	Others	772	0.09	−0.05	-	-
total		865.421	100.00		200
Valid votes		865.421	99.38
Invalid votes		5,404	0.62
voter turnout		870.825	58.48
Eligible voters		1,489,022	100.00
Source:

After the election

On November 14, 1922, a new government, consisting of the Landbund and the Progress Party, began work. Kyösti Kallio from the Landbund became Prime Minister . Kallio only remained Prime Minister of Finland until January 18, 1924, when President Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg ordered early elections after the arrest of all 27 MPs of the Socialist Workers' Party in August 1923 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Official result of the 1922 general 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 1922 doria.fi , PDF file (Finnish)