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Finland 1922 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democratic Party of Finland won 53 of 200 seats with 25.1% of the vote; 58.5% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Result

Seats and votes by party

Votes by party
  • Social Democratic Party of Finland 216,861
  • Centre Party 175,401
  • National Coalition Party 157,116
  • Democratic Union / Left Alliance 128,181
  • Swedish People's Party of Finland 107,414
  • National Progressive Party / [Finnish] Liberal People's Party 79,676

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.

ParlGov marks results before 1945 as experimental: they may need revision, so we compare them with no other election.

Share of the vote

Turnout

58.5% of the 1,489,022 registered voters cast a ballot (870,825 ballots). 865,421 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Social Democratic Party of Finland25.1% of votes26.5% of seats
  • Centre Party20.3% of votes22.5% of seats
  • National Coalition Party18.2% of votes17.5% of seats
  • Democratic Union / Left Alliance14.8% of votes13.5% of seats
  • Swedish People's Party of Finland12.4% of votes12.5% of seats
  • National Progressive Party / [Finnish] Liberal People's Party9.2% of votes7.5% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.5 by votes and 5.2 by seats; Social Democratic Party of Finland led Centre Party by 4.8 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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