1927 Finnish parliamentary election

General election Finland state-1920 parliamentary 1924 Finnish parliamentary election 1924 1929 Finnish parliamentary election 1929 All 200 seats in the Parliament of Finland 101 1–2 July 1927 130x130px Museovirasto.A9C413B554AFAA4D65AB3008AD4E4233-0-original.jpg Matti Paasivuori Social Democratic Party of Finland 29.02%, 60 seats 60 257,572 28.30% 0.72pp Pekka Ville Heikkinen, 1958 (cropped).jpg Pekka Heikkinen Agrarian League (Finland) 20.25%, 44 seats 52 205,313 22.56% 8 2.31pp Kyösti Haataja 1917.jpg Kyösti Haataja National Coalition Party 18.99%, 38 seats 34 161,450 17.74% 4 1.25pp 3x4.svg Eric von Rettig Swedish People's Party of Finland 12.03%, 23 seats 24 111,005 12.20% 1 0.17pp STPV 10.45%, 18 seats 20 2 109,939 12.08% 1.63pp Väinö Tanner Prime Minister Social Democratic Party of Finland Prime Minister after election Juho Sunila Agrarian League (Finland) OskariMantere.jpg Oskari Mantere National Progressive Party (Finland) 9.09%, 17 seats 10 7 61,613 6.77% 2.32pp Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 July 1927.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, Juho Sunila of the Agrarian League formed an Agrarian minority government in December 1927. It remained intact until December 1928. Voter turnout was 55.8%.Nohlen & Stöver, p614 Background Finland was governed during the 1927 election by a Social Democratic minority government led by Väinö Tanner. President Lauri Kristian Relander, an Agrarian, had supported the establishment of that minority government, after the Agrarian Prime Minister Kyösti Kallio's first government had been defeated in a vote of confidence in November 1926. He had advised Tanner to prepare a liberal and moderate government programme, which the Agrarians and Progressives could support. In April 1927 President Relander caught a cold which developed into a life-threatening pneumonia. He had to go on sick leave, and Tanner became the Acting President. He even received the centre-right Civil Guards' (Suojeluskunnat in Finnish; a voluntary Finnish men's paramilitary defence organization) salute on the Defence Forces' Flag Day (then held on 16 May). The bourgeois (non-socialist) parties tried to get back into power by persuading enough Finnish voters to reject the Social Democratic minority government.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:1927 Eduskunta.svg Social Democratic Party 257572 60 0 Agrarian League 205313 52 +8 National Coalition Party 161450 34 –4 Swedish People's Party 111005 24 +1 Electoral Organisation of Socialist Workers and Smallholders 109939 20 +2 National Progressive Party 61613 10 –7 Peasants' List 1341 0 0 Farmers' Party 784 0 New green Others 1174 0 – 4180 0 1719567 Nohlen & Stöver. Tilastokeskus.Tilastokeskus 2004 LackmanMatti Lackman: Taistelu talonpojasta (Pohjoinen 1985), p133 References Category:Parliamentary elections in Finland Parliament Finland