Turnout: 70.10%
About this election
Finland held parliamentary (Eduskunta) elections on 19 April 2015. The opposition Centre Party (Keskusta) led by Juha Sipilä won decisively with 21.10% of the vote and 49 of the 200 seats, ending the term of Jyrki Katainen's and Alexander Stubb's National Coalition-led "six-pack" coalition. The Finns Party (Perussuomalaiset) came second in seats (38) and the National Coalition Party third (37 seats, but slightly more votes than the Finns at 18.20%). The governing Social Democrats fell to 16.51%. Turnout was 70.1% among Finnish citizens resident in Finland. Sipilä formed a centre-right government with the National Coalition and the Finns Party.
The 200-member Eduskunta is elected by open-list proportional representation using the d'Hondt method across 13 electoral districts (vaalipiirit). There is no legal threshold, but the effective threshold rises in smaller districts. Voters cast a single vote for an individual candidate; that vote also counts for the candidate's party list. The autonomous Åland Islands form a single-member district that elects one MP.
The result confirmed Finland's traditional "big three" — the agrarian-centrist Centre Party, the conservative National Coalition Party, and the Social Democrats — now joined by the national-conservative Finns Party as a fourth major force after its 2011 breakthrough. Smaller parliamentary parties include the Green League, the Left Alliance, the Swedish People's Party (RKP) and the Christian Democrats.
In the 2011 election the National Coalition Party narrowly finished first and Jyrki Katainen formed a broad six-party coalition; the Finns Party had surged from 5 to 39 seats in that "jytky" upset.
Statistics Finland (Tilastokeskus) and the Ministry of Justice election results service — stat.fi.