Liberals is a free market

Free market

A free market is a competitive market where prices are determined by supply and demand. However, the term is also commonly used for markets in which economic intervention and regulation by the state is limited to tax collection, and enforcement of private ownership and contracts...

 liberal party in Finland. Founded in 1965 as a reunification of the People's Party of Finland

People's Party of Finland (1951)

The People's Party of Finland was a Finnish liberal political party founded on 3 February 1951 after the National Progressive Party was disbanded. In 1965 it merged with the Liberal League into the Liberal People's Party....

 and Liberal League. Originally named Liberal People's Party , it restyled its name as Liberals (Liberaalit) in 2000.

Liberals was removed from the party registry in 2007 after the failure to gain a seat in two consecutive parliamentary elections.

Leaders

• 1965–1968 Mikko Juva
  Mikko Juva
  Mikko Einar Juva , was a Finnish historian, theologian and archbishop. He was professor in Nordic history 1957-1962 at Turku University and professor in Finnish and Scandinavian history and church history at Helsinki University 1962-1978...
  
  
• 1968–1978 Pekka Tarjanne
• 1978–1982 Jaakko Itälä
• 1982–1984 Arne Berner
• 1984–1990 Kyösti Lallukka
• 1990–1992 Kaarina Koivistoinen
• 1992–1993 Kalle Määttä
• 1993–1995 Tuulikki Ukkola
• 1995–1997 Pekka Rytilä
• 1997–2000 Altti Majava
• 2000–2001 Oili Korkeamäki
• 2001–2005 Tomi Riihimäki
• 2005–2008 Ilkka Innamaa
• 2008–2011 Kimmo Eriksson
• 2011–       Jouni Flemming

Elections

Election results
Parliament
Year	MPs	Votes
1966 Finnish parliamentary election, 1966 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 20 and 21 March 1966.-Background:Prime Minister Johannes Virolainen had led a centre-right coalition government since September 1964. Meanwhile, the Social Democratic leader Rafael Paasio had moved the party somewhat more to the left, in order to...	9	153,259	6.47%
1970 Finnish parliamentary election, 1970 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 15 and 16 March 1970.-Background:Social Democrat Mauno Koivisto had replaced his party leader Rafael Paasio as Prime Minister in March 1968. His government was very broad-based, including the Social Democrats, Centrists, Communists, Swedish People's...	8	150,823	5.95%
1972 Finnish parliamentary election, 1972 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 2 and 3 January 1972.-Background:Prime Minister Karjalainen's centre-left government lost one party, the Communists, in March 1971 and was forced to resign in October 1971, due to the Social Democrats' and Centrists' disagreement over the amount of...	7	132,955	5.16%
1975 Finnish parliamentary election, 1975 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 21 and 22 September 1975.-Background:Prime Minister Kalevi Sorsa's government survived until June 1975. It resigned because of internal disagreements over the ways to combat Finland's recession, which had largely been caused by the 1973 Oil Crisis,...	9	119,534	4.35%
1979 Finnish parliamentary election, 1979 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 18 and 18 March 1979.-Background:Prime Minister Miettunen's centrist minority government had resigned in May 1977. After a two-year break, Social Democrat Kalevi Sorsa returned to office as Prime Minister...	4	106,560	3.68%
1987 Finnish parliamentary election, 1987 The Finnish parliamentary election of 1987 moved the country somewhat to the right. It was uncertain how far, because the voter participation rate--at a comparatively low 75 percent, 5 percent lower than usual--hurt the left more than the right and had a varying impact...	0	27,824	0.97%
1991 Finnish parliamentary election, 1991 The Finnish Parliamentary election of 1991, held on March 17, was historic, since it led to the Centre Party becoming the largest parliamentary party, forming a purely centre-right government for the first time after 1966 The Finnish Parliamentary election of 1991, held on March 17, was historic,...	1	21,210	0.78%
1995 Finnish parliamentary election, 1995 The 32nd elections to the Finnish parliament were held on March 19, 1995. The previous centre-right cabinet fell, as the Social Democrats made strong gains and achieved the best result of any party after the Second World War...	0	16,247	0.58%
1999 Finnish parliamentary election, 1999 The 1999 Finnish parliamentary election was held on March 21, 1999. Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen's Social Democrats remained the largest party of the Eduskunta, despite significant losses...	0	5,194	0.19%
2003 Finnish parliamentary election, 2003 The Finnish parliamentary election of 2003 was the 34th election to the Eduskunta , held on 16 March 2003 after the termination of the previous parliamentary term...	0	8,776	0.31%
2007 Finnish parliamentary election, 2007 The Finnish parliamentary election of 2007 was the 35th election to the Eduskunta , held on 18 March 2007 after the termination of the previous parliamentary term. Early voting was possible from the 7–13 March. Two hundred MPs were elected from 15 constituencies.Election themes included a reduction...	0	3 171	0.11%
Local councils
Year	Councillors	Votes
1968	309	123,793	5.45%
1972	304	129,736	5.19%
1976	328	127,750	4.76%
1980	203	88,086	3.21%
1988	62	29,339	1.12%
1992	49	26,334	0.99%
1996	25	8,766	0.37%
2004	1	1,016	0.04%
European Parliament
Year	MEPs	Votes
1996 European Parliament election, 1996 (Finland) The European Parliament election of 1996 in Finland was the first election of the Finnish delegation to the European Parliament.-Background:In 1996, Finland had a population of 5.1 million . The government was a broad coalition led by the social democrat Paavo Lipponen...	0	8,305	0.37%
2004 European Parliament election, 2004 (Finland) The European Parliament election of 2004 in Finland was the election of MEP representing Finland constituency for the 2004-2009 term of the European Parliament. It was part of the wider 2004 European election. The vote took place on June 13...	0	3,558	0.21%

See also

• Liberalism
  Liberalism
  Liberalism is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights,...
  
  
• Contributions to liberal theory
  Contributions to liberal theory
  Individual contributors to classical liberalism and political liberalism are associated with philosophers of the Enlightenment. Liberalism as a specifically named ideology begins in the late 18th century as a movement towards self-government and away from aristocracy...
  
  
• Liberalism worldwide
  Liberalism worldwide
  This article gives information on liberalism in diverse countries around the world. It is an overview of parties that adhere more or less to the ideas of political liberalism and is therefore a list of liberal parties around the world....
  
  
• List of liberal parties
• Liberal democracy
  Liberal democracy
  Liberal democracy, also known as constitutional democracy, is a common form of representative democracy. According to the principles of liberal democracy, elections should be free and fair, and the political process should be competitive...
  
  
• Liberalism and centrism in Finland
  Liberalism and centrism in Finland
  This article gives an overview of liberalism and centrism in Finland. It is limited to liberal and centrist parties with substantial support, mainly proved by having had a representation in parliament. The sign ⇒ means a reference to another party in that scheme...