Turnout: 72.00%
About this election
The 2 April 2023 parliamentary election was again an exceptionally close three-way contest. The National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) of Petteri Orpo won with 20.82% and 48 seats, ahead of the Finns Party (20.06%, 46 seats) and the incumbent Social Democrats of Sanna Marin (19.95%, 43 seats). Although the SDP actually increased its vote share, it finished third in seats and left government. Turnout was 72.0%. After lengthy negotiations, Orpo formed a right-wing coalition of the National Coalition Party, the Finns Party, the Swedish People's Party and the Christian Democrats.
The Eduskunta's 200 seats are filled by open-list proportional representation (d'Hondt) across 13 electoral districts, plus the single Åland seat. Voters vote for an individual candidate; no statutory threshold applies, though small districts raise the effective one.
The campaign centred on public debt and fiscal consolidation, themes that favoured the National Coalition Party. The Finns Party recorded its best-ever result. The Centre Party slumped further to 23 seats and chose opposition. The right-wing coalition that emerged was the first to include the Finns Party since 2017.
In 2019 the Social Democrats had narrowly won and led a five-party centre-left coalition under Antti Rinne and then Sanna Marin, whose government navigated the COVID-19 pandemic and Finland's 2023 accession to NATO.
Statistics Finland (Tilastokeskus) and the Ministry of Justice election results service — stat.fi.