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1931 Finnish presidential election

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1931 Finnish presidential election

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Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg
Candidate Pehr Evind Svinhufvud Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg
Party National Coalition National Progressive
Electoral vote 151 149
Popular vote 180,378 148,430

President before election

Lauri Kristian Relander
Agrarian

Elected President

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
National Coalition

Two-stage presidential elections were held in Finland in 1931. On 15 and 16 January the public elected presidential electors to an electoral college.[1] They in turn elected the President.The result was a victory for Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, who won on the third ballot by just two votes.[2] The turnout for the popular vote was 47.3%.[3]

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Background

This presidential election was held during an ideologically, politically, socially and economically tense time. The Great Depression was impoverishing many Finnish farmers and workers. The far-right Lapua Movement had not settled for the ban of the Communist Party and its affiliated organizations in the autumn of 1930. It wanted to help elect a President who would also strongly oppose the Social Democrats and moderate bourgeois parties, such as the Progressives. Although Svinhufvud disapproved of the Lapua Movement's violent kidnappings of left-wing politicians and other illegal acts, he was their preferred presidential candidate. Former President K.J. Ståhlberg, a champion of democracy, parliamentarism and the rule of law, had been briefly kidnapped by some activists of the Lapua Movement with his wife in October 1930. He was chosen as the Progressive presidential candidate. Speaker of the Finnish Parliament, Kyösti Kallio, held ideals similar to those of Ståhlberg, and he became the Agrarian presidential candidate. The outgoing President, Lauri Kristian Relander, had lost the Agrarian presidential candidacy to Kallio, because he did not condemn the Lapua Movement as strongly as Kallio did, and a sufficient number of Agrarians believed that Kallio could control the Lapua Movement's extremists more effectively than Relander. Right-wing Finns and some centrists, such as a prominent Agrarian parliamentarian, Juho Niukkanen, were concerned that Ståhlberg's re-election (after a six-year break) as the Finnish President would escalate political tensions in Finland. The Commander-in-Chief of the Civil Guards (a bourgeois voluntary defence organization), Major General Lauri Malmberg, announced in the Finnish Parliament that he would not guarantee order among the Civil Guards, if Ståhlberg was elected president. Svinhufvud's razor-thin victory required Niukkanen's arm-twisting tactics, whereby he pressured all the Agrarian presidential electors to support Svinhufvud. This 69-year-old and slightly ailing conservative politician was considered by his supporters as a sufficiently bold, solid and patriotic man to re-unite the ideologically divided Finns. His pro-democracy supporters hoped that he could keep both right-wing extremists and left-wing extremists in check.[4][5][6]

Results

President Svinhufvud enters his office in Helsinki 2.3.1931. President Svinhufvud standing outside the Presidential Palace

Popular vote

PartyVotes%Seats
Social Democratic Party252,55030.1890
National Coalition Party180,37821.5664
Agrarian League167,57420.0369
National Progressive Party148,43017.7450
Swedish People's Party75,3829.0125
Small Farmers' Party11,7721.412
Others6720.080
Total836,758100.00300
Valid votes836,75899.67
Invalid/blank votes2,7630.33
Total votes839,521100.00
Registered voters/turnout1,775,98247.27
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Electoral college

Presidential election advertisements for the Finnish Social Democratic Party
CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond roundThird round
Votes%Votes%Votes%
Väinö TannerSocial Democratic Party9030.0000.00
Pehr Evind SvinhufvudNational Coalition Party8829.339832.6715150.33
Kyösti KallioAgrarian League6421.335317.67
Kaarlo Juho StåhlbergNational Progressive Party5819.3314949.6714949.67
Total300100.00300100.00300100.00
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p606 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p628
  3. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p622
  4. ^ Sakari Virkkunen (1994) Finland's Presidents I / Suomen presidentit I, Otava, pp242–245 (Relander), pp11–14 (Svinhufvud)
  5. ^ Pentti Virrankoski (2009) A History of Finland / Suomen historia, Finnish Literature Society, pp810–816
  6. ^ Seppo Zetterberg et al. (2003) A Small Giant of the Finnish History / Suomen historian pikkujättiläinen, WSOY, pp635–639
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