Parliamentary election in Finland 1924

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Result (in%)

 %

30th

20th

10

0

29.0

20.3

19.0

12.0

10.5

9.1

0.1

SDP

ML

COOK

RKP

STPV

ED

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 1922

 % p

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

+3.9

± 0.0

+0.8

-0.4

-4.3

-0.1

+0.1

SDP

ML

COOK

RKP

STPV

ED

Otherwise.

Distribution of seats

      

A total of 200 seats

• STPV : 18
• SDP : 60
• ED : 17
• RKP : 23
• ML : 44
• KOK : 38

The parliamentary elections in Finland in 1924 ( Finnish Eduskuntavaalit 1924 ; Swedish Riksdagsvalet 1924 ) took place on April 1 and 2, 1924. It was the election to the 11th Finnish Parliament .

A new election became necessary after the 27 MPs of the Socialist Workers' Party were arrested in August 1923 for alleged treason and President Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg ordered the dissolution of parliament.

The Socialist Workers' and Small Farmers' election alliance ran for the Socialist Workers' Party in the election, but lost nine seats. The Social Democrats benefited primarily from this, gaining 4.0 percentage points and clearly remaining the strongest force ahead of the Landbund, which lost only slightly.

Participating parties

6 different parties and an alliance ran for election:

Party / name		Alignment	Top candidate
	Social Democratic Party of Finland Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue (SDP) Finlands Socialdemokratiska Parti	social democratic	Matti Paasivuori
	Landbund Maalaisliitto (ML) Agrarförbundet	agrarian	Petter Heikkinen
	National Collection Party Kansallinen Kokoomus (KOK) Samlingspartiet	conservative	Antti Tulenheimo
	Swedish People's Party Ruotsalainen Kansanpuolue (RKP) Svenska Folkpartiet (SFP)	liberal	Eric from Rettig
	National Progressive Party Kansallinen Edistyspuolue (ED) Framstegspartiet	liberal	Oskari Mantere
	Socialist workers 'and peasants' election organization Sosialistinen Työvänen ja Pienviljelijöiden Vaalijärjestö (STPV)	socialist
	Peasant electoral alliance Talonpoika Vaaliliitto	agrarian

Election result

The turnout was 57.4 percent, 1.1 percentage points below the turnout in the last parliamentary election in 1922.

Result of the parliamentary election in Finland in 1924

Political party		be right			Seats
		number	%	+/-	number	+/-
	Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP)	255.068	29.02	+3.96	60	+7
	Land Federation (ML)	177,982	20.25	−0.02	44	−1
	National Collection Party (KOK)	166,880	18.99	+0.84	38	+3
	Swedish People's Party (RKP)	105,733	12.03	−0.38	23	−2
	Socialist workers 'and peasants' election organization (STPV)	91,839	10.45	−4.36	18th	−9
	National Progressive Party (ED)	79,937	9.09	−0.12	17th	+2
	Peasant electoral alliance	456	0.05	+0.05	-	-
	Others	1,046	0.12	+0.03	-	-
total		878.941	100.00		200
Valid votes		878.941	99.45
Invalid votes		4,884	0.55
voter turnout		883.825	57.41
Eligible voters		1,539,393	100.00
Source:

After the election

On May 31, 1924, Lauri Ingman became Prime Minister of the Gathering Party . A coalition of the Landbund, the Collection Party, the Swedish People's Party and the Progress Party was formed. For the first time in three years, a majority government was established (122 seats out of 200). Ingman's coalition did not last long after the Landbund left the coalition over a dispute over civil servants' pensions. On March 31, 1925, Antti Tulenheimo (also a rallying party) became the new Prime Minister. Tulenheimo formed a minority government made up of a gathering party and a Landbund, which had just 82 seats. From December 31, 1925 to December 13, 1926, Kyösti Kallio of the Landbund was finally Prime Minister for the second time - the government continued to form the rallying party and the Landbund. On December 13, 1926, the Social Democrats took over the government under their new Prime Minister Väinö Tanner . For almost a year, namely until December 17, 1927, the 60 MPs of the SDP ruled alone in a minority government.

Overview:

11. Cabinet Ingman II - Lauri Ingman (Kok.) - Government: Kok., Ed., RKP, ML ( May 31, 1924 to March 31, 1925 )
12. Cabinet Tulenheimo - Antti Tulenheimo (Kok.) - Government: Kok., ML (March 31, 1925 to December 31, 1925 )
13. Cabinet Kallio II - Kyösti Kallio (ML) - Government: ML, Kok. (December 31, 1925 to December 13, 1926 )
14. Tanner I Cabinet - Väinö Tanner (SDP) - Government: SDP (December 13, 1926 to December 17, 1927 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Official result of the 1924 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 1924 doria.fi , PDF file (Finnish)
4. ↑ phila-gert.de Finnish Postage Stamps - History in Postage Stamps