Finnish parliamentary election, 1927
- StPv: 20
- SDP: 60
- ED: 10
- RKP: 24
- ML: 52
- KOK: 34
The parliamentary election in Finland in 1927 (Finnish Eduskuntavaalit 1927; Swedish Riksdagsvalet 1927) took place on 1 and 2 July 1927. It was the election of the 12th Parliament of Finland.
In the three years after the last elections in 1924 there were four different governments. Last ruled the social democrat Väinö Tanner as Prime Minister. However, its SDP had it not an official coalition and formed with their 60 seats a minority government.
The second largest party in Parliament, the Land League, could account for the largest gains: eight more seats than in the previous legislature had jumped out of the election. The Social Democrats lost, however slightly. The conservative National Coalition Party and the liberal Progressive Party had to cope with the biggest losses.
Participating parties
There were at 7 different parties and an alliance for election:
Election result
The turnout was 55.8 %, which is 1.6 percentage points below the turnout at the last parliamentary election, 1927.
After the election
Juho Sunila was new on December 17, 1927 Prime Minister of Finland. His Landbund reigned alone in a minority government. A year long remained the Land League in the government before Oskari Mantere was elected by the Progress Party for Prime Minister. Until August 16, 1929 ruled Minister of the Progressive Party together with Ministers from the Coalition Party, but on their own initiative belonged to the Cabinet and were not sent by the Coalition Party to do so. New elections were held in July 1929 to the day two years after the elections of 1927.
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