Finnish parliamentary election, 1922

• SSTP: 27
• SDP: 53
• ED: 15
• RKP: 25
• ML: 45
• KOK: 35

The parliamentary election in Finland in 1922 (Finnish Eduskuntavaalit 1922; Swedish Riksdagsvalet 1922) took place on 1 and 3 July 1992. It was the election of the 10th Parliament of Finland.

The Social Democrats had a loss of votes of almost 13 percentage points and now accept only got eight more seats than the Agrarian League. Main reason for the loss of votes was the first participation of the Socialist Workers Party of Finland, which came to almost 15 % of the vote. The Christian Workers' Union took against it because of its criticism of the electoral law, which in his opinion, let smaller parties have little chances, not at the general election in part.

Participating parties

There were 6 different parties to choose from:

Election result

The turnout was 58.5 %, which is 8.6 percentage points below the turnout at the last parliamentary election, 1919.

After the election

On November 14, 1922 a new government took consisting of Landbund and Progress Party, which work on. Prime Minister was Kyösti Kallio from the Land League. Kallio remained only until January 18, 1924 Prime Minister of Finland, since after the detention of all 27 members of parliament of the Socialist Workers Party in August 1923 President Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg ordered early elections.