Issues, Campaign and Results

The Finnish voters´growing frustration with the Parliament´s performance was reflected in the low voter turnout. The Social Democrats and Agrarians, championing the cause of poor workers and farmers, kept gaining votes at the expense of the Old Finns, whose main concern was the passive defence of Finland´s self-government. They disagreed on the social and economic policies, and thus did not formulate very clear positions on them. In 1914, the Russian government decided to suspend the Finnish Parliament for the duration of World War I (see, for example, Seppo Zetterberg et al., eds., A Small Giant of the Finnish History / Suomen historian pikkujattilainen, Helsinki: WSOY, 2003; Allan Tiitta and Seppo Zetterberg, eds., Finland Through the Ages / Suomi kautta aikojen, Helsinki: Reader´s Digest Ltd., 1992).

Turnout	51.1%	-8.7	http://www.stat.fi/til/evaa/2003/evaa_2003_2004-05-31_tau_005.html & http://www.vaalit.fi/uploads/rfsvyrtb.pdf

Party	Seats	%	Votes
Social Democratic Party of Finland Social Democratic Party of Finland The Social Democratic Party of Finland is one of the three major political parties in Finland, along with the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party. Jutta Urpilainen is the current SDP leader. The party has been in the Finnish government cabinet for long periods and has set many...	90	43.11%	312,214
Finnish Party Finnish Party The Finnish Party was a Fennoman conservative political party in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland and independent Finland. Born out of Finland's language strife in the 1860s, the party sought to improve the position of the Finnish language in Finnish society...	38	19.88%	143,982
Young Finnish Party Young Finnish Party The Young Finnish Party or Constitutional-Fennoman Party was a liberal and nationalist political party in the Grand Duchy of Finland...	29	14.13%	102,313
Swedish People's Party	25	13.07%	94,672
Agrarian League	18	7.87%	56,977
Christian Workers' League		1.77%	12,850
Others		0.18%	1,296
Total	200	100%	724,304
Source: Suomen virallinen tilasto 29 A, 8 (Tilastollinen päätoimisto), p. 35.