Finnish parliamentary election, 2015

Finnish parliamentary election, 2015

← 2011 19 April 2015 2019 →
← outgoing members elected members →
All 200 seats to the Parliament 101 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	70.1%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Juha Sipilä Timo Soini Alexander Stubb Party Centre Finns National Coalition Leader since 2012 1997 2014 Last election 35 seats, 15.8% 39 seats, 19.1% 44 seats, 20.4% Seats won 49 38 37 Seat change 14 1 7 Popular vote 626,218 524,054 540,212 Percentage 21.1% 17.7% 18.2% Swing 5.3% 1.4% 2.2%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Antti Rinne Ville Niinistö Paavo Arhinmäki Party Social Democratic Green League Left Alliance Leader since 2014 2011 2009 Last election 42 seats, 19.1% 10 seats, 7.3% 14 seats, 8.1% Seats won 34 15 12 Seat change 8 5 2 Popular vote 490,102 253,102 211,702 Percentage 16.5% 8.5% 7.1% Swing 2.6% 1.3% 1.0%   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Carl Haglund Päivi Räsänen Mats Löfström Party Swedish People's Christian Democrat Åland Coalition Leader since 2012 2004 Last election 9 seats, 4.3% 6 seats, 4.0% 1 seat, 0.3% Seats won 9 5 1 Seat change 0 1 0 Popular vote 144,802 105,134 10,910 Percentage 4.9% 3.5% 0.4% Swing 0.6% 0.5% 0.0%
Prime Minister before election Alexander Stubb National Coalition Elected Prime Minister Juha Sipilä Centre

Alexander Stubb
National Coalition

Juha Sipilä
Centre

The 2015 Finnish parliamentary election was held on 19 April 2015, with advance voting from 8 to 14 April. The 200 members of the Finnish Parliament were elected with the proportional D'Hondt method.

There were 4,463,333 people entitled to vote in Finland and abroad.

The incumbent government was formed by a four party coalition, composed of the National Coalition Party, Social Democratic Party, Swedish People's Party and the Christian Democrats as well as the MP for Åland. Left Alliance and the Green League were initially also part of the governing coalition, but both left in 2014.

On 22 June 2011, the parliament elected Jyrki Katainen as prime minister by a vote of 118–72; two Left Alliance MPs voted against Katainen, for which they were formally reprimanded by the Left Alliance parliamentary group. They were subsequently expelled from the group, reducing the government majority from 126 MPs to 124. In March 2014 the Left Alliance announced that it was leaving the cabinet, citing the party's opposition to budget cuts in social welfare programs, which had been agreed to by the other five parties. This reduced the government's majority to 112 MPs.

In April 2014 Jyrki Katainen announced that he would not seek another term as the chairman of the National Coalition Party. The NCP chose Alexander Stubb as its new chairman in June, and he subsequently became the new Prime Minister. In September 2014 the Green League announced that it was leaving the cabinet. The Greens were opposed to the other governing parties' decision to grant Fennovoima a licence for building a nuclear power plant in Pyhäjoki. The Greens' departure cut the government's majority to 102 MPs (including the Speaker of the Parliament, who does not vote).

...
Wikipedia