Finland 1999 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democratic Party of Finland won 51 of 200 seats with 22.9% of the vote; 65.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 3.3 points on 1995.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democratic Party of Finland | 51 | −12 | 22.9 | −5.4 | 612,963 |
| Centre Party | 48 | +4 | 22.4 | +2.6 | 600,592 |
| National Coalition Party | 46 | +7 | 21.0 | +3.1 | 563,835 |
| Democratic Union / Left Alliance | 20 | −2 | 10.9 | −0.3 | 291,675 |
| Green League | 11 | +2 | 7.3 | +0.8 | 194,846 |
| Swedish People's Party of Finland | 11 | 0 | 5.1 | 0.0 | 137,330 |
| Christian Democrats | 10 | +3 | 4.2 | +1.2 | 111,835 |
| Reform Group | 1 | 1.1 | 28,549 | ||
| Young Finns | 0 | −2 | 1.0 | −1.8 | 28,084 |
| Finnish Party / True Finns | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | −0.3 | 26,440 |
| Åland Coalition | 1 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 10,472 |
± is the change against the Finland 1995 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Social Democratic Party of Finland 612,963
- Centre Party 600,592
- National Coalition Party 563,835
- Democratic Union / Left Alliance 291,675
- Green League 194,846
- Swedish People's Party of Finland 137,330
- Christian Democrats 111,835
- Reform Group 28,549
- Young Finns 28,084
- Finnish Party / True Finns 26,440
- Åland Coalition 10,472
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.
Share of the vote
Turnout
65.3% of the 4,152,430 registered voters cast a ballot (2,710,095 ballots), down 3.3 points on 1995. 2,681,291 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1945. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Social Democratic Party of Finland22.9% of votes25.5% of seats
- Centre Party22.4% of votes24.0% of seats
- National Coalition Party21.0% of votes23.0% of seats
- Democratic Union / Left Alliance10.9% of votes10.0% of seats
- Green League7.3% of votes5.5% of seats
- Swedish People's Party of Finland5.1% of votes5.5% of seats
- Christian Democrats4.2% of votes5.0% of seats
- Reform Group1.1% of votes0.5% of seats
- Finnish Party / True Finns1.0% of votes0.5% of seats
- Åland Coalition0.4% of votes0.5% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.9 by votes and 5.2 by seats; Social Democratic Party of Finland led Centre Party by 0.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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