Parliamentary election in Finland 1929

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Result (in%)

 %

30th

20th

10

0

27.4

26.2

14.5

13.5

11.5

5.6

1.1

0.2

SDP

ML

COOK

STPV

RKP

ED

SPP

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 1927

 % p

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

-0.9

+3.6

-3.2

+1.4

-0.7

-1.2

+1.1

-0.1

SDP

ML

COOK

STPV

RKP

ED

SPP

Otherwise.

Distribution of seats

      

A total of 200 seats

• STPV : 23
• SDP : 59
• ED : 7
• RKP : 23
• ML : 60
• KOK : 28

The parliamentary elections in Finland in 1929 ( Finnish Eduskuntavaalit 1929 ; Swedish Riksdagsvalet 1929 ) took place on July 1 and 2, 1929. It was the election for the 13th Finnish Parliament .

President Lauri Kristian Relander dissolved parliament on April 19 because it had not accepted his proposal to raise salaries for civil servants.

Although the Social Democrats got the most votes, the Landbund received one more seat due to the electoral law, making it the largest parliamentary group in the Finnish parliament for the first time. As in 1927, six parties were able to enter parliament this time.

Participating parties

Eight different parties and an alliance ran for election:

Political party		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	Kyösti Haataja
	Swedish People's Party Ruotsalainen Kansanpuolue (RKP) Svenska Folkpartiet (SFP)	liberal	Eric from Rettig
	Socialist workers 'and peasants' election organization Sosialistinen Työvänen ja Pienviljelijöiden Vaalijärjestö (STPV)	socialist
	National Progressive Party Kansallinen Edistyspuolue (ED) Framstegspartiet	liberal	Eemil Linna
	Small farmers' party of Finland Suomen Pienviljelijäin Puolue (SPP)	Left
	Farmer's electoral alliance / Talonpoika Vaaliliitto / Maanviljelijäin Puolue farmers ' party	agrarian

Election result

The turnout was 55.6 percent, 0.2 percentage points below the turnout in the last parliamentary election in 1927.

Result of the parliamentary election in Finland in 1929

Political party		be right			Seats
		number	%	+/-	number	+/-
	Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP)	260.254	27.36	−0.94	59	−1
	Land Federation (ML)	248,762	26.15	+3.59	60	+8
	National Collection Party (KOK)	138.008	14.51	−3.23	28	−6
	Socialist workers 'and peasants' election organization (STPV)	128.164	13.47	+1.39	23	+3
	Swedish People's Party (RKP)	108,886	11.45	−0.75	23	−1
	National Progressive Party (ED)	53,301	5.60	−1.16	7th	−3
	Small Farmers Party of Finland (SPP)	10.154	1.08	+1.08	-	-
	Farmer's electoral alliance / farmer's party	1,258	0.13	−0.11	-	-
	Others	2,483	0.26	+0.13	-	-
total		951.270	100.00		200
Valid votes		951.270	99.47
Invalid votes		5,026	0.53
voter turnout		956.296	55.61
Eligible voters		1,719,567	100.00
Source:

After the election

Kyösti Kallio formed a minority government with his land union, which was not even supposed to have existed for a year. He was introduced to office on August 16, 1929. His reign ended on July 4, 1930. His 17th cabinet was replaced by the 2nd cabinet Pehr Evind Svinhufvud .

Overview:

17. Cabinet Kallio III - Kyösti Kallio (ML) - Government: ML ( August 16, 1929 to July 4, 1930 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Official result of the 1929 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 1929 doria.fi , PDF file (Finnish)