1995 Finnish parliamentary election
Election
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 19 March 1995.[1][2]
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) achieved the best result of any party since World War II, winning 63 of the 200 seats in the Eduskunta and defeating the incumbent centre-right coalition led by the Centre Party. The result was attributed to the government's unpopular austerity policies as well as lingering effects of the early 1990s recession.
After the election, a five party "Rainbow Coalition" was formed, between the SDP, National Coalition Party, Left Alliance, Swedish People's Party and the Green League, with SDP leader Paavo Lipponen appointed Prime Minister.
Results
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
Social Democratic Party | 785,637 | 28.25 | 63 | +15 | |
Centre Party | 552,003 | 19.85 | 44 | –11 | |
National Coalition Party | 497,624 | 17.89 | 39 | –1 | |
Left Alliance | 310,340 | 11.16 | 22 | +3 | |
Green League | 181,198 | 6.52 | 9 | –1 | |
Swedish People's Party | 142,874 | 5.14 | 11 | 0 | |
Finnish Christian League | 82,311 | 2.96 | 7 | –1 | |
Young Finns | 78,066 | 2.81 | 2 | New | |
Finnish Rural Party | 36,185 | 1.30 | 1 | –6 | |
Alliance for Free Finland | 28,067 | 1.01 | 0 | New | |
Liberal People's Party | 16,247 | 0.58 | 0 | –1 | |
Women's Party | 7,919 | 0.28 | 0 | 0 | |
Ecological Party the Greens | 7,865 | 0.28 | 1 | 0 | |
Natural Law Party | 6,819 | 0.25 | 0 | New | |
Liberals for Åland | 6,038 | 0.22 | 1 | 0 | |
Pensioners for People | 5,124 | 0.18 | 0 | 0 | |
Communist Workers' Party – For Peace and Socialism | 4,784 | 0.17 | 0 | 0 | |
Pensioners' Party | 3,974 | 0.14 | 0 | 0 | |
Borgerlig samlingslista (C–FS–Ob) | 2,958 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 | |
Joint Responsibility Party | 1,706 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | |
Åland Social Democrats | 909 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | |
Others | 22,273 | 0.80 | 0 | – | |
Total | 2,780,921 | 100.00 | 200 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 2,780,921 | 99.19 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 22,681 | 0.81 | |||
Total votes | 2,803,602 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 4,088,358 | 68.58 | |||
Source: Tilastokeskus, ASUB |
By electoral district
Electoral district | Total seats | Seats won | ||||||||||
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SDP | Kesk | Kok | Vas | RKP | Vihr | SKL | Nuor | SMP | EKO | L | ||
Åland | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Central Finland | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Häme | 13 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Helsinki | 19 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |||||
Kymi | 13 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Lapland | 8 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
North Karelia | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
North Savo | 10 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
Oulu | 18 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
Pirkanmaa | 16 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Satakunta | 11 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
South Savo | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Uusima | 31 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
Vaasa | 18 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Varsinais-Suomi | 17 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Total | 200 | 63 | 44 | 39 | 22 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Source: Statistics Finland[3] |
By province
Province | Social Democratic | Centre | National Coalition | Left Alliance | Green League | Swedish People's | Christian League | Young Finns | Rural Party | Alliance | Liberal People's | Electorate | Votes | Valid | Invalid |
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Southern Savonia | 31,890 | 26,559 | 13,841 | 3,082 | 4,899 | 0 | 4,157 | 1,076 | 3,753 | 1,300 | 123 | 135,397 | 92,275 | 91,384 | 891 |
Northern Savonia | 32,905 | 42,915 | 16,674 | 21,203 | 7,369 | 0 | 4,364 | 2,474 | 2,877 | 1,629 | 274 | 199,660 | 134,227 | 133,259 | 968 |
North Karelia | 36,839 | 25,251 | 11,714 | 5,065 | 4,134 | 0 | 6,226 | 708 | 1,868 | 717 | 224 | 135,731 | 94,191 | 93,539 | 652 |
Kainuu | 6,724 | 16,366 | 4,935 | 12,709 | 2,109 | 0 | 1,084 | 471 | 388 | 1,614 | 1,031 | 72,939 | 48,598 | 48,118 | 480 |
Uusimaa | 192,889 | 36,779 | 143,737 | 61,533 | 72,789 | 64,218 | 12,067 | 37,658 | 2,949 | 7,497 | 2,084 | 909,997 | 658,294 | 652,716 | 5,578 |
Eastern Uusimaa | 14,097 | 3,954 | 4,814 | 2,649 | 2,299 | 15,507 | 536 | 1,132 | 193 | 320 | 51 | 65,300 | 47,086 | 46,697 | 389 |
Southwest Finland | 67,865 | 36,880 | 57,235 | 32,634 | 14,320 | 11,017 | 4,559 | 10,665 | 2,624 | 2,290 | 487 | 334,154 | 247,761 | 245,994 | 1,767 |
Tavastia Proper | 33,434 | 15,617 | 22,893 | 8,229 | 5,696 | 0 | 3,655 | 1,317 | 423 | 505 | 85 | 127,549 | 94,859 | 93,925 | 934 |
Päijänne Tavastia | 33,601 | 13,274 | 29,766 | 9,873 | 5,725 | 109 | 4,853 | 2,400 | 1,633 | 1,016 | 468 | 153,856 | 104,974 | 104,040 | 934 |
Kymenlaakso | 43,682 | 15,851 | 23,889 | 9,442 | 7,111 | 0 | 3,352 | 1,290 | 229 | 953 | 262 | 152,169 | 108,372 | 107,559 | 813 |
South Karelia | 27,828 | 18,919 | 15,752 | 2,681 | 5,190 | 0 | 2,455 | 1,164 | 579 | 653 | 784 | 110,296 | 77,004 | 76,357 | 647 |
Central Finland | 43,916 | 35,886 | 18,467 | 17,947 | 8,427 | 0 | 9,724 | 2,361 | 943 | 1,212 | 475 | 197,959 | 141,369 | 140,306 | 1,063 |
Southern Ostrobothnia | 18,168 | 57,084 | 19,671 | 4,940 | 3,419 | 254 | 3,359 | 924 | 5,762 | 544 | 113 | 152,617 | 115,865 | 115,171 | 694 |
Ostrobothnia | 19,876 | 9,966 | 6,765 | 7,407 | 1,965 | 47,267 | 2,892 | 823 | 677 | 476 | 533 | 131,511 | 99,754 | 99,100 | 654 |
Satakunta | 46,996 | 29,443 | 26,692 | 21,057 | 4,395 | 1 | 4,700 | 1,111 | 3,091 | 604 | 929 | 191,292 | 142,330 | 141,164 | 1,166 |
Pirkanmaa | 73,178 | 33,646 | 48,750 | 33,277 | 15,790 | 0 | 6,392 | 5,613 | 3,395 | 2,278 | 3,399 | 333,840 | 242,226 | 240,209 | 2,017 |
Central Ostrobothnia | 7,429 | 17,106 | 2,539 | 2,549 | 1,184 | 2,862 | 3,533 | 841 | 1,288 | 320 | 99 | 53,280 | 40,414 | 40,080 | 334 |
Northern Ostrobothniaa | 30,798 | 72,673 | 17,314 | 24,898 | 11,008 | 0 | 2,547 | 4,547 | 2,384 | 3,487 | 4,471 | 254,316 | 182,207 | 180,758 | 1,449 |
Lapland | 20,333 | 42,590 | 9,779 | 27,675 | 2,558 | 0 | 1,545 | 1,165 | 995 | 537 | 265 | 151,860 | 109,448 | 108,397 | 1,051 |
Åland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18,938 | 9,874 | 9,799 | |
Source: European Election Database Archived 2021-06-24 at the Wayback Machine |
References
- ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p606 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ^ Berglund, Sten (1995). "The Finnish parliamentary election of 1995". Electoral Studies. 14 (4): 461–464. doi:10.1016/0261-3794(96)81772-0. ISSN 0261-3794.
- ^ Vaalit 1995:3 - Kansanedustajain vaalit 1995. Statistics Finland. 1995.