Finnish Rural Party

Suomen Maaseudun puolue (abbr. SMP, German inconsistently translated Finnish Agrarian Party, the Agrarian Party, Country People's Party) was a Finnish populist party.

  • 3.1 parliamentary elections
  • 3.2 local elections
  • 3.3 Presidential Elections

History

The Peasant Party developed in 1959 from a faction of the Agrarian League ( Maalaisliitto ) and was identified primarily with their chairman Veikko Vennamo, a former Landbund deputies, who had vehemently opposed the party leader Urho Kekkonen, because this was too pro-Soviet. Vennamo was chairman of the SMP 1959-1979. The organization was seen as a protest party that promised for the discontented " ordinary people " to use that had been forgotten by the established parties. Especially economically impoverished small farmers who had lost by the cessions of territory after the Continuation War and the subsequent resettlement their country, were a key target group of the party.

The party received votes, especially in agrarian and underdeveloped central and northern Finland. In 1970, she achieved its best result with about 10 percent. After a poor showing in the local elections in 1975 established, among other things, six of the 18 MPs of the party of the SMP unit of the Finnish people, which was, however, represented only after the elections in 1975 with a deputy. The party lost at the beginning of the 1990s in importance and dissolved in 1995. The " True Finns " ( Perussuomalaiset ) are considered as a successor party, the Agrarian Party.

Leadership politicians

Party chairman

  • Veikko Vennamo (1959-1979)
  • Pekka Vennamo (1979-1989)
  • Heikki Riihijärvi (1989-1991)
  • Tina Mäkelä (1991-1992)
  • Raimo Vistbacka (1992-1995)

Secretaries General

  • Köpi Luoma (1959-1960)
  • Eino Poutiainen (1961-1970)
  • Rainer Lemström (1970-1972)
  • Urpo Leppänen (1972-1977)
  • Rainer Lemström (1977-1979)
  • Urpo Leppänen (1979-1984)
  • Aaro Niiranen (1984-1989)
  • Tina Mäkelä (1989-1991)
  • Reijo gutter (1991-1992)
  • Timo Soini (1992-1995)

Election results

Parliamentary elections

Local elections

Presidential elections

² Support the candidacy of Mauno Koivisto ( Social Democrats )

Centrism Agricultural policy Finnish parliamentary election, 1962 Finnish parliamentary election, 1966 Finnish parliamentary election, 1970 Finnish parliamentary election, 1972 Finnish parliamentary election, 1975 Finnish parliamentary election, 1979 Finnish parliamentary election, 1983 Finnish parliamentary election, 1987 Finnish parliamentary election, 1991 Finnish parliamentary election, 1995
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