2019 Finnish parliamentary election

2019 Finnish parliamentary election

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All 200 seats in Parliament 101 seats needed for a majority
Registered	4,510,040
Turnout	72.8% ( 2.7 pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Antti Rinne Jussi Halla-aho Petteri Orpo[1] Party SDP Finns National Coalition Last election 34 seats, 16.5% 38 seats, 17.7% 37 seats, 18.2% Seats won 40 39 38 Seat change 6 1 1 Popular vote 546,471 538,805 523,957 Percentage 17.7% 17.5% 17.0% Swing 1.2pp 0.2pp 1.2pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Juha Sipilä Pekka Haavisto Li Andersson[2] Party Centre Green Left Alliance Last election 49 seats, 21.1% 15 seats, 8.5% 12 seats, 7.1% Seats won 31 20 16 Seat change 18 5 4 Popular vote 423,920 354,194 251,808 Percentage 13.8% 11.5% 8.2% Swing 7.3pp 3.0pp 1.1pp   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Anna-Maja Henriksson[3] Sari Essayah[4] Harry Harkimo Party RKP KD Liik Last election 9 seats, 4.9% 5 seats, 3.5% – Seats won 9 5 1 Seat change 0 0 New Popular vote 139,640 120,144 69,427 Percentage 4.5% 3.9% 2.3% Swing 0.4pp 0.4pp New
Election result by constituencies
Prime Minister before election Juha Sipilä Centre Prime Minister after election Antti Rinne SDP

Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 14 April 2019.^[5] For the first time, no party received more than 20% of the vote. The Centre Party, which had been the largest party following the 2015 elections, dropped to fourth place, losing 18 seats and recording its lowest vote share since 1917. The Social Democratic Party saw the biggest gains, winning six more seats and narrowly becoming the largest party for the first time since 1999. The Green League and the Left Alliance also gained five and four seats respectively.

The Finns Party and the National Coalition Party gained one seat each, with the Finns Party recovering the seats it had lost in the previous parliament when 21 of its MPs left to form Blue Reform, which failed to win a seat. The Swedish People's Party and the Christian Democrats retained all of their seats that they had won in the previous elections. The Åland Coalition retained their seat in Åland, whilst Harry Harkimo, a former National Coalition MP who founded Movement Now twelve months earlier, was reelected in his constituency, thus giving his own movement its first elected MP.

Social Democratic Party leader Antti Rinne subsequently formed a coalition government with the Centre Party, Green League, Left Alliance and Swedish People's Party. Due to the Centre Party's devastating defeat, outgoing party leader and Prime Minister Juha Sipilä consequently announced that he would continue as the chairman only until the party's next convention in September 2019.^[6]