Finnish parliamentary election, 1929

  • StPv: 23
  • SDP: 59
  • ED: 7
  • RKP: 23
  • ML: 60
  • KOK: 28

The parliamentary election in Finland in 1929 (Finnish Eduskuntavaalit 1929 Swedish Riksdagsvalet 1929) took place on 1 and 2 July 1929. It was the election of the 13th Parliament of Finland.

President Lauri Kristian Relander had dissolved parliament on 19 April, as it had not accepted his proposal to raise the salaries of civil servants.

Although the Social Democrats got the most votes, but the Land League was due to the electoral law one more seat and stood for the first time the largest group in the Finnish Parliament. As in 1927, this time also get six parties collect in the parliament.

Participating parties

There were 8 different parties and an alliance for election:

Election result

The turnout was 55.6 %, which is 0.2 percentage points below the turnout at the last parliamentary election in 1927.

After the election

Kyösti Kallio made ​​his Landbund a minority government, which was not even one years should have. It was introduced on August 16, 1929 to office. His reign ended on July 4, 1930. Was replaced by his 17 Cabinet 2 Cabinet Pehr Evind Svinhufvud.

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