Finnish parliamentary election, 1930

• SDP: 66
• Otherwise:. 13
• RKP: 20
• ML: 59
• KOK: 42

The parliamentary election in Finland in 1930 (Finnish Eduskuntavaalit 1930; Swedish Riksdagsvalet 1930) took place on 1 and 2 October 1930. It was the election of the 14th Parliament of Finland.

President Lauri Kristian Relander had dissolved parliament in the run, which was located because of the communists laws in a heavy dispute.

The Social Democrats, who had in 1929 lost its position as the largest party in parliament, put added by almost seven percentage points. Although the Land League and won easily votes, but not added in the same proportions as won the Social Democrats. The National Coalition Party increased its number of seats in Parliament by 14 to 42. The Swedish left were represented with one seat in parliament. The dissolved Socialist Worker and peasant electoral alliance did not occur, and an unofficial successor list could not gain representation in the Reichstag.

Participating parties

There were 8 different parties and an alliance for election:

Election result

The turnout was 65.9 % and was 10.3 percentage points higher than the turnout at the last parliamentary election in 1929.

After the election

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud was on July 4 became Prime Minister and led his bourgeois government consisting of the Progressive Party, the Swedish People's Party, Agrarian League and Coalition Party until March 21, 1931. From then on ruled Juho Sunila ( Landbund ) 635 days until December 14, 1932. Toivo Kivimäki ( Progressive Party ) then took over the post of prime minister and remained four years in this office.

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