Finnish parliamentary election, 2011

  • VAS: 14
  • SDP: 42
  • VIHR: 10
  • RKP: 10
  • KESK: 35
  • KOK: 44
  • KD: 6
  • PS: 39

The parliamentary elections in Finland 2011 took place on April 17, 2011. It was the election of the 36th Parliament of Finland.

The National Coalition Party of Finance Jyrki Katainen reached 20.4 percent of the vote and thus became the strongest force. The Social Democrats combined 19.1 percent of the vote, thus reaching the worst result ever. With fewer than 1,500 votes behind and also 19.1 percent of the base Finns came in third place. The guided by Timo Soini party could more than quadruple their earnings in relation to the election of 2007. The losers of the election counted the Finnish Centre Party of Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi. The center lost a seven percentage points to 15.8 percent, the worst result since 1917.

Starting position

2007, the Centre Party to defend its position as the strongest yet. She received 23.1 % of the votes and formed with 51 seats out of 200, the largest group in the Finnish parliament. The conservative National Coalition Party ( Kansallinen Kokoomus ) came to 50 seats. It was followed by the Social Democrats ( SDP) with 45 mandates. Also represented in parliament were the Left Alliance (17 seats), the Green collar (15 seats), the Finnish Christian Democrats (7 seats), the Swedish People's Party (10 seats, including the Åland mandate ) and the base of fins (5 seats). After the parliamentary elections on 18 March 2007 Matti Vanhanen (Centre ) had formed a government with the National Coalition Party, the Greens and the Swedish People's Party. On June 22, 2010 Vanhanen had been replaced by Mari Kiviniemi.

  • Coalition Party
  • Social
  • Base fins
  • Center
  • Left Alliance
  • Swedish People's Party
  • Christian
  • Åland mandate

Electoral system

Finland is divided into 15 electoral districts, in each of which a certain number of the 200 seats are allocated. The starting Counts after the D' Hondt method.

The electoral districts are (in brackets the number of entitled mandates):

  • Helsinki ( 21)
  • Uusimaa (35 )
  • Varsinais- Suomi ( 17)
  • Satakunta (9 )
  • Åland - Ahvenanmaa ( 1)
  • Häme (14 )
  • Pirkanmaa (18 )
  • Kymi (12 )
  • Savo - Southern Savo (6 )
  • Northern Savonia - Pohjois- Savo (9 )
  • North Karelia - Pohjois- Karjala (6 )
  • Vaasa ( 17)
  • Central Finland - Keski- Suomi ( 10)
  • Oulu ( 18)
  • Lapland - Lappi ( 7)

Parties

There were 17 registered parties in the election.

An incoming following parties were already represented in the Parliament:

An incoming Other parties:

  • Communist Party of Finland
  • Senior Citizens Party of Finland
  • Independence Party
  • For the poor
  • Communist Workers' Party of Finland
  • Workers' Party of Finland
  • Pirate Party ( first appeared in )
  • Change in 2011 ( first appeared in )
  • Freedom Party ( first appeared in )

Surveys

The last twelve months before the election in April 2011 were characterized by a strong boost in popularity based Finns, who was able to increase its vote share of 6.3 % in February 2010 to 17.2% in March 2011 carried out monthly by Taloustutkimus surveys. Almost all other parties represented in Parliament had in the polls suffered losses, including the Center Party, which only came to 18.6 % in the April 2011 survey.

Election result

Statewide Vote Counting

The turnout was 70.5 %, slightly higher than in the parliamentary elections of 2007.

Results by constituencies

Results by constituencies

  • National Coalition Party 0-10%
  • 10-15 %
  • 15-20 %
  • 20-25 %
  • 25-30 %
  • 30-35 %
  • 35-40 %
  • 40-100 %
  • 0-10%
  • 10-15 %
  • 15-20 %
  • 20-25 %
  • 25-30 %
  • 30-35 %
  • 35-100 %
  • 0-10%
  • 10-15 %
  • 15-20 %
  • 20-25 %
  • 25-30 %
  • 30-35 %
  • 35-40 %
  • 40-45 %
  • 45-50 %
  • 50-100 %
  • 0-10%
  • 10-15 %
  • 15-20 %
  • 20-25 %
  • 25-30 %
  • 30-35 %
  • 35-40 %
  • 40-45 %
  • 45-50 %
  • 50-100 %

After the election

After the election was expected that Katainen wants to enter into a government, among others, with the base Finns. After the Coalition Party Katainens had agreed, however, the activation of the European stabilization mechanism for Portugal, the base Finns withdrew their promise of a government involvement. Katainen then began coalition talks with the Greens, the Swedish People's Party and the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats. On 22 June 2011, the new government was finally sworn in Finland. On March 25, 2014, the leftist coalition left the coalition, before two deputies from the faction had already quit. The remaining five governing parties represent 110 of the 200 seats.

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