Socialist Workers' Party was a political party in Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. The STP was founded in 1973 as split from Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders (TPSL). STP emerged out of a group that did not approve of the return of TPSL to the Social Democratic Party

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...

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STP had electoral alliances with Finnish People's Democratic League

Finnish People's Democratic League

Finnish People's Democratic League was a Finnish political organisation with the aim of uniting those left of the Finnish Social Democratic Party...

 (SKDL), the mass front dominated by the Communist Party of Finland

Communist Party of Finland

The Communist Party of Finland was a communist political party in Finland. The SKP was a section of Comintern and illegal in Finland until 1944.SKP did not participate in any elections with its own name. Instead, front organisations were used...

 (SKP) but with little success. When SKP (and SKDL) split in 1985-1986 STP cooperated with Democratic Alternative

Democratic Alternative (Finland)

Democratic Alternative was a political party in Finland. Deva was formed in 1986 by expelled members of the Communist Party of Finland and its mass front Finnish People's Democratic League...

 which was founded by Communist Party of Finland (Unity) (SKPy).

In february 1990, STP chairman Pentti Waltzer said the party would join the new Left Alliance

Left Alliance (Finland)

The Left Alliance is a left-wing political party in Finland. It was founded on the basis of the Finnish People's Democratic League and the Communist Party of Finland in 1990....

 if Democratic Alternative decided to merge with it, which later happened.

Elections

Parliament
Year	MPs	Votes
1975 Finnish parliamentary election, 1975 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 21 and 22 September 1975.-Background:Prime Minister Kalevi Sorsa's government survived until June 1975. It resigned because of internal disagreements over the ways to combat Finland's recession, which had largely been caused by the 1973 Oil Crisis,...	--	9 457	0.34%
1979 Finnish parliamentary election, 1979 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 18 and 18 March 1979.-Background:Prime Minister Miettunen's centrist minority government had resigned in May 1977. After a two-year break, Social Democrat Kalevi Sorsa returned to office as Prime Minister...	--	2 955	0.10%
Municipal
Year	Councillors	Votes
1976	2	1 901	0.07%
Presidential
Year	Electors	Votes
1978 Finnish presidential election, 1978 Two-stage presidential elections were held in Finland in 1978, the first since 1968 after Urho Kekkonen's term was extended by four years by Parliament. The public elected presidential electors to an electoral college on 15 and 16 January. They in turn elected the President. The result was a...	--	2 187	0.1%

External links

• STP party program (1973) (in Finnish)