Agrarian LeagueAgrarian League ( was a merger of the Young Finnish Agrarian League of the Southern Ostrobothnia

Young Finnish Agrarian League of the Southern Ostrobothnia

Young Finnish Agrarian League of the Southern Ostrobothnia was a party established on 21st - 22nd October, 1906 in Kauhava. It worked as an internal fraction of the Young Finnish Party or Constitutional-Fennoman Party . The strong man of the party was Santeri Alkio, who became elected as a...

 to the League of the Rural People of Finland

League of the Rural People of Finland

League of the Rural People of Finland was a political party, which was established in Oulu party meeting on 18th - 19th September, 1906. Its chairman was Otto Karhi. In the next party meeting in Seinäjoki, 26th - 27th October, 1906, the opener, Otto Karhi emphasized that the party is for...

. Together they formed the Agrarian League to win 10 seats in the parliamentary elections in 1908. Otto Karhi

Otto Karhi

Otto Karhi was the first Chairman of Centre Party, then the League of the Rural People of Finland from 1906 to 1908 from 1906 to 1909 . He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1907 to 1913 from Oulu southern electoral district. He quit the Agrarian League in 1914 and stayed passive...

 was the first chairman of the Agrarian League. Under Johannes Virolainen

Johannes Virolainen

Johannes Virolainen was a Finnish politician.Virolainen was born near Viipuri. After the Continuation War Virolainen moved to Lohja, but he remained one of the leaders of the evacuated Karelians, and never gave up the hope that Soviet Union and later Russia would return Finnish Karelia to Finland...

's chairmanship the name of the party was changed the Center Party  in 1965 and then during Paavo Väyrynen

Paavo Väyrynen

Paavo Matti Väyrynen is a Finnish veteran politician of the Centre Party. Väyrynen has held several ministerial portfolios and is also a former Member of the European Parliament.-Career:...

's period Center Party of Finland  ( in 1988. The Väyrynen's proposal for the name was Keskusta - Centern. The official translation of Suomen Keskusta, literally Centre of Finland is Centre Party in Finland, which gives the idea of global centre movement, which did exist between the world wars in its Agrarian forms mainly only in the Nordic countries and Bulgaria. More: Centre Party (Finland)

Centre Party (Finland)

The Centre Party is a centrist and Nordic agrarian political party in Finland. It is one of the four largest political parties in the country, along with the Social Democratic Party , the National Coalition Party and the True Finns , and currently has 35 seats in the Finnish Parliament...

Parliamentary elections 1908-1962

	Parliament>ry elections Year MPs Votes 1908 Finnish parliamentary election, 1908 -Issues, Campaign and Results :The Russian Czar Nicholas II dissolved the first modern and democratic Finnish Parliament after its Speaker, Mr. Pehr E. Svinhufvud refused, in the Czar´s opinion, to show enough respect for him when speaking at the parliamentary session´s opening... 10 51,756 6.39 % 1909 Finnish parliamentary election, 1909 - Results :... 13 56,943 6.73 % 1910 Finnish parliamentary election, 1910 - Results :... 17 60,157 7.60 % 1911 Finnish parliamentary election, 1911 - Results :... 16 62,885 7.84 % 1913 Finnish parliamentary election, 1913 -Issues, Campaign and Results :The Finnish voters´growing frustration with the Parliament´s performance was reflected in the low voter turnout. The Social Democrats and Agrarians, championing the cause of poor workers and farmers, kept gaining votes at the expense of the Old Finns, whose main... 18 56,977 7.87 % 1916 Finnish parliamentary election, 1916 -Issues, Campaign and Results :The Finnish Parliament had not been in session during the early years of World War I. The workers´and tenant farmers´discontent with their social and economic problems -Issues, Campaign and Results :The Finnish Parliament had not been in session during the early... 19 71,608 9.00 % 1917 Finnish parliamentary election, 1917 The Finnish parliamentary election 1917 was a result of the constitutional crisis in Finland resulting from the Russian revolution. As the Russian tsar, head of state in Finland, had abdicated without there being a successor, the Finnish parliament stated that it would take the highest power in... 26 122,900 12.38 % 1919 Finnish parliamentary election, 1919 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland between 1 and 3 March 1919. The Social Democratic Pary emerged as the largest in Parliament with 80 of the 200 seats. Voter turnout was 67.1%.-Background:... 42 189,297 19.70 % 1922 Finnish parliamentary election, 1922 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland between 1 and 3 July 1922. The Social Democratic Pary remained the largest in Parliament with 53 of the 200 seats... 45 175,401 20.27 % 1924 Finnish parliamentary election, 1924 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 April 1924. Although the Social Democratic Pary remained the largest in Parliament with 60 of the 200 seats, Lauri Ingman of the National Coalition Party formed a centre-right majority government in May 1924. It remained intact until the... 44 177,982 20.25 % 1927 Finnish parliamentary election, 1927 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 July 1927. Although the Social Democratic Pary remained the largest in Parliament with 60 of the 200 seats, Juho Sunila of the Agrarian League formed a minority government in May 1924. It remained intact until the Agrarians left in November 1924... 52 205,313 22.56 % 1929 Finnish parliamentary election, 1929 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 July 1929. The result was a victory for the Agrarian League, which won 60 of the 200 seats in Parliament... 60 248,762 26.15 % 1930 Finnish parliamentary election, 1930 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 October 1930. The Social Democratic Party emerged as the largest in Parliament with 66 of the 200 seats. Voter turnout was 65.9%.-Background:... 59 308,280 27.28 % 1933 Finnish parliamentary election, 1933 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland between 1 and 3 July 1933. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in Parliament with 78 of the 200 seats... 53 249,758 22.54 % 1936 Finnish parliamentary election, 1936 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 July 1936.-Background:Finland had clearly recovered from the Great Depression since 1933, and unemployment had been almost eliminated. Prime Minister Kivimäki wanted to continue in office and to broaden his narrow right-wing minority government... 53 262,917 22.41 % 1939 Finnish parliamentary election, 1939 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 July 1939.-Background:The leading issues of the 1939 Finnish parliamentary election, held on 1 and 2 July, were the distribution of the growing prosperity's benefits, the prospects for the centre-left coalition government's continuation, the... 56 296,529 22.86 % 1945 Finnish parliamentary election, 1945 Eduskunta election in 1945 was held from March 17 to 18, 1945. In Finland, the communists could for the first time since 1929 freely present their candidates. Through the Finnish People's Democratic League, they were able to win over a large section of Social Democratic voters. The Patriotic... 49 362,662 21.35 %		table class="wikitable">
Year	MPs	Votes
1948 Finnish parliamentary election, 1948 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 July 1948.-Background:The political atmosphere during the July 1948 Finnish parliamentary elections was heated. Many Finns across the party lines believed that the Communists and People's Democrats had pursued their goal of making Finland a...	56	455,635	24.24 %
1951 Finnish parliamentary election, 1951 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 July 1951.-Background:Urho Kekkonen had served as Prime Minister since March 1950, after losing the February 1950 presidential election clearly to President J.K...	51	421,613	23.26 %
1954 Finnish parliamentary election, 1954 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 7 and 8 March 1954.-Background:In June 1953, Prime Minister Kekkonen had presented a simultaneous deflationary program, which tried to lower wages, prices and public expenditures to the level of the export industry's profitability...	53	483,958	24.10 %
1958 Finnish parliamentary election, 1958 Year 1958 Eduskunta election took place 6–7 July 1958. As the result of the election Democratic Alliance of the Finnish People has been one of a few cases for a communist party to have become the dominant party in a Western European country during the Cold War...	48	448,364	23.06 %
1962 Finnish parliamentary election, 1962 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 4 and 5 February 1962.-Background:Sukselainen's second minority government had resigned in 1961, followed by Prime Minister Martti Miettunen's first government, also a centrist minority government. In the spring of 1961, Mr...	53	528,409	22.95 %

Presidential elections

indirect elections
Year	Candidate	Electors	Votes
1925 Finnish presidential election, 1925 Two-stage presidential elections were held in Finland in 1925. On 15 and 16 January the public elected presidential electors to an electoral college. They in turn elected the President. The result was a victory for Lauri Kristian Relander, who won in the third round of voting. Voter turnout in the...	Lauri Kristian Relander Lauri Kristian Relander Lauri Kristian Relander was the second President of Finland . A prominent member of the Agrarian League, he served as a member of Parliament, and as Speaker, before his election as President.... , elected	69	123,932	19.9 %
1931 Finnish presidential election, 1931 Two-stage presidential elections were held in Finland in 1931. On 15 and 16 January the public elected presidential electors to an electoral college. They in turn elected the President. The result was a victory for Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, who won in the third round of voting by just two votes. Voter...	Kyösti Kallio Kyösti Kallio Kyösti Kallio was the fourth President of Finland . He was a prominent leader of the Agrarian League, and served as Prime Minister four times and Speaker of the Parliament six times.-Early life:...	69	167,574	20.0 %
1937 Finnish presidential election, 1937 Two-stage presidential elections were held in Finland in 1937. On 15 and 16 January the public elected presidential electors to an electoral college. They in turn elected the President. Whilst Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg was one vote short of winning in the first round, the result was a victory for...	Kyösti Kallio Kyösti Kallio Kyösti Kallio was the fourth President of Finland . He was a prominent leader of the Agrarian League, and served as Prime Minister four times and Speaker of the Parliament six times.-Early life:... , elected	56	184,668	16.6 %
1950 Finnish presidential election, 1950 Two-stage presidential elections were held in Finland in 1950, the first time the public had been involved in a presidential election since 1937 as three non-public elections had taken place in 1940, 1943 and 1946. On 16 and 17 January the public elected presidential electors to an electoral...	Urho Kekkonen Urho Kekkonen Urho Kaleva Kekkonen , was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland and later as the eighth President of Finland . Kekkonen continued the “active neutrality” policy of his predecessor President Juho Kusti Paasikivi, a doctrine which came to be known as the “Paasikivi–Kekkonen...	62	309,060	19.6 %
1956 Finnish presidential election, 1956 Two-stage presidential elections were held in Finland in 1956. On 16 and 17 January the public elected presidential electors to an electoral college. They in turn elected the President. The result was a victory for Urho Kekkonen, who won in the third round of voting. Voter turnout in the public...	Urho Kekkonen Urho Kekkonen Urho Kaleva Kekkonen , was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland and later as the eighth President of Finland . Kekkonen continued the “active neutrality” policy of his predecessor President Juho Kusti Paasikivi, a doctrine which came to be known as the “Paasikivi–Kekkonen... , elected	88	510,783	26.9 %
1962 Finnish presidential election, 1962 Two-stage presidential elections were held in Finland in 1962. On 15 and 16 January the public elected presidential electors to an electoral college. They in turn elected the President. The result was a victory for Urho Kekkonen, who won in the first round of voting. Voter turnout in the public...	Urho Kekkonen Urho Kekkonen Urho Kaleva Kekkonen , was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland and later as the eighth President of Finland . Kekkonen continued the “active neutrality” policy of his predecessor President Juho Kusti Paasikivi, a doctrine which came to be known as the “Paasikivi–Kekkonen... , elected	111	698,199	31.7 %

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