1929 Finnish parliamentary election

General election Finland state-1920 parliamentary 1927 Finnish parliamentary election 1927 1930 Finnish parliamentary election 1930 All 200 seats in the Parliament of Finland 101 1–2 July 1929 130x130px Pekka Ville Heikkinen, 1958 (cropped).jpg Pekka Heikkinen Agrarian League (Finland) 22.56%, 52 seats 60 248,762 26.15% 8 3.59pp Museovirasto.A9C413B554AFAA4D65AB3008AD4E4233-0-original.jpg Matti Paasivuori Social Democratic Party of Finland 28.30%, 60 seats 59 260,254 27.36% 1 0.94pp Kyösti Haataja 1917.jpg Kyösti Haataja National Coalition Party 17.74%, 34 seats 28 138,008 14.51% 6 3.23pp STPV 12.08%, 20 seats 23 3 128,164 13.47% 1.39pp Eric von Rettig Swedish People's Party of Finland 12.20%, 24 seats 23 108,886 11.45% 1 0.75pp OskariMantere.jpg Oskari Mantere National Progressive Party (Finland) 6.77%, 10 seats 7 3 53,301 5.60% 1.17pp Oskari Mantere Prime Minister National Progressive Party (Finland) Prime Minister after election Kyösti Kallio Agrarian League (Finland) Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 July 1929.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p606 978-3-8329-5609-7 The result was a victory for the Agrarian League, which won 60 of the 200 seats in Parliament. Voter turnout was 55.6%.Nohlen & Stöver, p607 Background President Relander, an Agrarian, believed that the Finnish civil servants should get a pay raise, after a long period of frozen salaries, that had caused them to lose a significant amount of purchasing power. Most of his fellow Agrarians opposed him and the Progressive minority government of Prime Minister Mantere on this issue, arguing that the civil servants, on average, were still clearly better paid than the agricultural workers. After the Finnish Parliament rejected the government's legislative proposal on the increase of civil servants' salaries in April 1929, President Relander dissolved Parliament and called early elections for July. The Agrarians and Communists campaigned on the rejection of the civil servants' proposed salary increases, and both parties gained seats. The National Coalitioners and Progressives who favoured the salary increases suffered a defeat. President Relander was displeased by the Agrarians' victory, because he could not get along well with their leader, Mr. Kallio, but he reluctantly appointed Kallio as Prime Minister of an Agrarian minority government after the elections.Seppo Zetterberg et al., eds., A Small Giant of the Finnish History / Suomen historian pikkujättiläinen, Helsinki: WSOY, 2003Sakari Virkkunen, Finland's Presidents I / Suomen presidentit I, Helsinki: WSOY, 1994 Results File:1929 Eduskunta.svg Agrarian League 248762 60 +8 Social Democratic Party 260254 59 –1 National Coalition Party 138008 28 –6 Electoral Organisation of Socialist Workers and Smallholders 128164 23 +3 Swedish People's Party 108886 23 –1 National Progressive Party 53301 7 –3 Small Farmers' Party 10154 0 New Peasant People's Party fi Talonpoikaiskansan puolue–Farmers' Party Farmers' Party (Finland) fi Maanviljelijäin puolue 1258 0 0 darkgreen Others 2483 0 – 5026 0 1719567 Nohlen & Stöver, Tilastokeskus 2004,Tiedosto "595. Eduskuntavaalit 1927–2003 (Tilastokeskus 2004) LackmanMatti Lackman: Taistelu talonpojasta (Pohjoinen 1985), s. 133. References Category:Parliamentary elections in Finland Parliament Finland