Country: | Finland |
Flag Year: | 1809 |
Type: | parliamentary |
Next Election: | 1916 Finnish parliamentary election |
Next Year: | 1916 |
Seats For Election: | All 200 seats in the Parliament of Finland |
Majority Seats: | 101 |
Election Date: | 1–2 August 1913 |
Image1: | Museovirasto.A9C413B554AFAA4D65AB3008AD4E4233-0-original (cropped).jpg |
Leader1: | Matti Paasivuori |
Party1: | Social Democratic Party of Finland |
Seats1: | 90 |
Popular Vote1: | 312,214 |
Percentage1: | 43.11% |
Party2: | Finnish Party |
Seats2: | 38 |
Popular Vote2: | 143,982 |
Percentage2: | 19.88% |
Image3: | 3x4.svg |
Party3: | Young Finnish Party |
Seats3: | 29 |
Popular Vote3: | 102,313 |
Percentage3: | 14.13% |
Image4: | Axel Lille in 1906 (cropped).jpg |
Leader4: | Axel Lille |
Party4: | Swedish People's Party |
Seats4: | 25 |
Popular Vote4: | 94,672 |
Percentage4: | 13.07% |
Image5: | Maalaisliiton eduskuntaryhmä 1907 (cropped).jpg |
Leader5: | Kyösti Kallio |
Party5: | Agrarian League (Finland) |
Seats5: | 18 |
Popular Vote5: | 56,977 |
Percentage5: | 7.87% |
Seat Change1: | 4 |
Swing1: | 3.08pp |
Last Election1: | 40.03%, 86 seats |
Previous Election: | 1911 Finnish parliamentary election |
Previous Year: | 1911 |
Last Election2: | 21.71%, 43 seats |
Seat Change2: | 5 |
Swing2: | 1.83pp |
Last Election3: | 14.88%, 28 seats |
Seat Change3: | 1 |
Swing3: | 0.75pp |
Seat Change4: | 1 |
Swing4: | 0.24pp |
Last Election4: | 13.31%, 26 seats |
Last Election5: | 7.84%, 16 seats |
Seat Change5: | 2 |
Swing5: | 0.03pp |
Parliamentary elections were held in the Grand Duchy of Finland on 1 and 2 August 1913. In 1914, the Russian government decided to suspend the Finnish Parliament for the duration of World War I.
Finnish voters' growing frustration with Parliament's performance was reflected by 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 concern was the passive defence of Finland's self-government. They disagreed on the social and economic policies, and thus did not formulate very clear positions on them.[1] [2]