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1946 Finnish presidential election

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1946 Finnish presidential election

← 1943 9 March 1946 1950 →
 
Candidate Juho Kusti Paasikivi Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg
Party National Coalition National Progressive
Electoral vote 159 14

President before election

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Independent

Elected President

Juho Kusti Paasikivi
National Coalition

Parliament elects prime minister Juho Kusti Paasikivi to succeed the resigning Mannerheim as new president on 9 March 1946

Indirect presidential elections were held in Finland in 1946. In 1944 the Parliament had passed a law that enabled Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim to serve a six-year term.[1] However, he resigned on 4 March 1946, giving as his reason his declining health and his view that the tasks he had been selected to carry out had been accomplished. An election was held in Parliament to appoint his successor. Juho Kusti Paasikivi was elected with 159 of the 200 votes.[1] Mannerheim had suffered from poor health since 1945, and he had vacationed abroad (chiefly in Portugal) from November 1945 to January 1946. He had been concerned about the possibility of being indicted for abusing his office as the Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish army when approving of Finland's participation in the Continuation War (1941–1944) against the Soviet Union, and in an informal military alliance with Germany. He was not indicted, but eight leading wartime Finnish politicians were, and Mannerheim stayed abroad, mainly in Portugal, and on sick leave in the Red Cross's hospital in Helsinki from November 1945 to March 1946, to remain on the political background during the "war guilt" trial. Paasikivi was regarded by many Finnish politicians as the only realistic successor of Mannerheim, given his long diplomatic and foreign policy experience. Because many Karelian refugees would not yet have been able to vote in regular Finnish presidential elections until the autumn of 1946, due to their frequent changes of home town, the Finnish Parliament decided to pass an exceptional law to elect the new President. Former President K.J. Ståhlberg was not an official presidential candidate, but he received 14 sympathy votes in these presidential elections, because a few Finnish parliamentarians respected his preference for regular presidential elections.[2][3][4]

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Transcription

Results

CandidatePartyVotes%
Juho Kusti PaasikiviNational Coalition Party15991.91
Kaarlo Juho StåhlbergNational Progressive Party148.09
Total173100.00
Valid votes17394.02
Invalid/blank votes115.98
Total votes184100.00
Registered voters/turnout20092.00
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

  1. ^ a b Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p629 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Lauri Haataja, "A Reconstructing Finland" / Jälleenrakentava Suomi, pgs. 746, 748, 754-759, 762-768, in Seppo Zetterberg et al., eds., A Small Giant of the Finnish History / Suomen historian pikkujättiläinen. Helsinki: WSOY, 2003
  3. ^ Pentti Virrankoski, A History of Finland / Suomen historia, volumes 1&2. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society (Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura), 2009, pgs. 933-934, 937-939, 941
  4. ^ Sakari Virkkunen, Finland's Presidents II / Suomen presidentit II. Helsinki: Otava Ltd., 1994
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