1924 Finnish parliamentary election

General election Finland state-1920 parliamentary 1922 Finnish parliamentary election 1922 1927 Finnish parliamentary election 1927 All 200 seats in the Parliament of Finland 101 1–2 April 1924 130x130px Väinö Tanner.jpg Väinö Tanner Social Democratic Party of Finland 25.06%, 53 seats 60 255,068 29.02% 3.96pp Pekka Ville Heikkinen, 1958 (cropped).jpg Pekka Heikkinen Agrarian League (Finland) 20.27%, 45 seats 44 177,982 20.25% 1 0.02pp AnttiTulenheimo.jpg Antti Tulenheimo National Coalition Party 18.15%, 35 seats 38 166,880 18.99% 3 0.84pp Eric von Rettig Swedish People's Party of Finland 12.41%, 25 seats 23 105,733 12.03% 2 0.38pp 7 STPV – 18 New 91,839 10.45% New Aimo Cajander Prime Minister Independent Prime Minister after election Lauri Ingman National Coalition Party OskariMantere.jpg Oskari Mantere National Progressive Party (Finland) 9.21%, 15 seats 17 2 79,937 9.09% 0.12pp Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 April 1924.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p606 978-3-8329-5609-7 Although the Social Democratic Party remained the largest in Parliament with 60 of the 200 seats, Lauri Ingman of the National Coalition Party formed a centre-right majority government in May 1924. It remained intact until the Agrarians left in November 1924. Voter turnout was 57.4%.Nohlen & Stöver, p613 Background President Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg decided to dissolve Parliament in January 1924 and to organise early elections for April 1924, as since August 1923, Parliament had been 27 members short following the arrest of the Communist MPs suspected of treason. Around December 1923 and January 1924, the Social Democrats threatened to withdraw from Parliament, unless early elections were held. Prime Minister Kyösti Kallio opposed the dissolution of Parliament, true to his parliamentary principles, and resigned after Ståhlberg indicated that he would dissolve Parliament. After Kallio's resignation, Ståhlberg appointed a caretaker government of civil servants, led by Professor Aimo Cajander (a Progressive). The 1922 land reform had been enacted, on the initiative of Prime Minister Kallio. The National Coalitioners were becoming more right-wing and less reformist. The Progressives were losing votes to the National Coalitioners and Agrarians, with their brand of petty-bourgeois, urban liberalism losing its appeal in the still heavily agrarian Finland.Sakari Virkkunen, Finland's Presidents I / Suomen presidentit I, Helsinki: WSOY, 1994Seppo Zetterberg et al., eds., A Small Giant of the Finnish History / Suomen historian pikkujättiläinen, Helsinki: WSOY, 2003 Results File:1924 Eduskunta.svg Social Democratic Party 255068 60 +7 Agrarian League 177982 44 –1 National Coalition Party 166880 38 +3 Swedish People's Party 105733 23 –2 Electoral Organisation of Socialist Workers and Smallholders 91839 18 –9 National Progressive Party 79937 17 +2 Peasants' List 456 0 New Others 1046 0 – 4884 0 1539393 Nohlen & Stöver See also List of members of the Parliament of Finland, 1924–1927 References 1924 Parliament Finland