2015 Finnish parliamentary election

2015 Finnish parliamentary election
19 April 2015
All 200 seats in Parliament
101 seats needed for a majority
Registered4,463,333
Turnout70.1% ( 0.4pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Juha Sipilä Timo Soini Alexander Stubb
Party Centre Finns National Coalition
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 5.3pp 1.4pp 2.2pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Antti Rinne Ville Niinistö Paavo Arhinmäki
Party SDP Green Left Alliance
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 2.6pp 1.3pp 1.0pp
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
Leader Carl Haglund Päivi Räsänen Mats Löfström
Party RKP KD ÅS
Last election 9 seats, 4.3% 6 seats, 4.0% 1 seat, 0.3%
Seats won 9 5 1
Seat change 1
Popular vote 144,802 105,134 10,910
Percentage 4.9% 3.5% 0.4%
Swing 0.6pp 0.5pp 0.0pp
Results map
Prime Minister before election

Alexander Stubb
National Coalition

 Prime Minister after election

Juha Sipilä
Centre

Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 19 April 2015, with advance voting taking place from 8 to 14 April. The 200 members of the Parliament of Finland were elected with the proportional D'Hondt method.

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

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