Election Result 2011
After the parliamentary election on 17 April, 2011, the seats were divided among eight parties as follows:
| Parties | Votes | MPs | MPs %/votes % | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | ±swing | % | ±pp swing | # | ± | % | swing | |||
| National Coalition Party | 599,138 | 17,703 | 20.4 | 1.9 | 44 | 6 | 22.0 | 1.08 | 0.04 | |
| Social Democratic Party of Finland | 561,558 | 32,636 | 19.1 | 2.3 | 42 | 3 | 21.0 | 1.10 | 0.05 | |
| True Finns | 560,075 | 447,819 | 19.1 | 15.0 | 39 | 34 | 19.5 | 1.02 | 0.40 | |
| Centre Party | 463,266 | 177,162 | 15.8 | 7.3 | 35 | 16 | 17.5 | 1.11 | 0.01 | |
| Left Alliance | 239,039 | 5,257 | 8.1 | 0.7 | 14 | 3 | 7.0 | 0.86 | 0.10 | |
| Green League | 213,172 | 21,257 | 7.3 | 1.2 | 10 | 5 | 5.0 | 0.68 | 0.21 | |
| Swedish People's Party | 125,785 | 735 | 4.3 | 0.3 | 9 | 0 | 4.5 | 1.05 | 0.07 | |
| Christian Democrats | 118,453 | 16,337 | 4.0 | 0.9 | 6 | 1 | 3.0 | 0.75 | 0.03 | |
| Åland representative | 8,546 | 1,015 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 1.67 | 0.57 | |
| The Cabinet | 1,401,361 | 216,857 | 48.2 | 10.8 | 99 | 27 | 49.5 | 1.03 | 0.04 | |
| The Opposition | 1,479,125 | 393,589 | 51.8 | 10.8 | 101 | 27 | 50.5 | 0.97 | 0.04 | |
| Totals | 2,889,032 | 185,278 | 98.5 | 0.6 | 200 | 100.0 | 1.02 | |||
| Other unrepresented parties | ||||||||||
| Pirate Party | 15,103 | 15,103 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Communist Party of Finland | 9,232 | 9,045 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Change 2011 | 7,504 | 7,504 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Freedom Party | 4,285 | 4,285 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independence Party | 3,236 | 2,305 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Senior Citizens' Party | 3,195 | 13,520 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Workers Party | 1,857 | 93 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Communist Workers' Party | 1,575 | 432 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| For the Poor | 1,335 | 1,186 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Other parties | 11,763 | 825 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Turnout | 2,931,817 | 159,018 | 70.5 | 2.6 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 4,159,857 | 76,308 | ||||||||
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