| Country: | Finland |
| Flag Year: | state-1920 |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 1924 Finnish parliamentary election |
| Previous Year: | 1924 |
| Next Election: | 1929 Finnish parliamentary election |
| Next Year: | 1929 |
| Seats For Election: | All 200 seats in the Parliament of Finland |
| Majority Seats: | 101 |
| Election Date: | 1–2 July 1927 |
| Image1: | Museovirasto.A9C413B554AFAA4D65AB3008AD4E4233-0-original.jpg |
| Leader1: | Matti Paasivuori |
| Party1: | Social Democratic Party of Finland |
| Last Election1: | 29.02%, 60 seats |
| Seats1: | 60 |
| Popular Vote1: | 257,572 |
| Percentage1: | 28.30% |
| Swing1: | 0.72pp |
| Leader2: | Pekka Heikkinen |
| Party2: | Agrarian League (Finland) |
| Last Election2: | 20.25%, 44 seats |
| Seats2: | 52 |
| Popular Vote2: | 205,313 |
| Percentage2: | 22.56% |
| Seat Change2: | 8 |
| Swing2: | 2.31pp |
| Image3: | Kyösti Haataja 1917.jpg |
| Leader3: | Kyösti Haataja |
| Party3: | National Coalition Party |
| Last Election3: | 18.99%, 38 seats |
| Seats3: | 34 |
| Popular Vote3: | 161,450 |
| Percentage3: | 17.74% |
| Seat Change3: | 4 |
| Swing3: | 1.25pp |
| Leader4: | Eric von Rettig |
| Party4: | Swedish People's Party of Finland |
| Last Election4: | 12.03%, 23 seats |
| Seats4: | 24 |
| Popular Vote4: | 111,005 |
| Percentage4: | 12.20% |
| Seat Change4: | 1 |
| Swing4: | 0.17pp |
| Party5: | STPV |
| Last Election5: | 10.45%, 18 seats |
| Seats5: | 20 |
| Seat Change5: | 2 |
| Popular Vote5: | 109,939 |
| Percentage5: | 12.08% |
| Swing5: | 1.63pp |
| Before Election: | Väinö Tanner |
| Prime Minister | |
| Before Party: | Social Democratic Party of Finland |
| Posttitle: | Prime Minister after election |
| After Election: | Juho Sunila |
| After Party: | Agrarian League (Finland) |
| Image6: | OskariMantere.jpg |
| Leader6: | Oskari Mantere |
| Party6: | National Progressive Party (Finland) |
| Last Election6: | 9.09%, 17 seats |
| Seats6: | 10 |
| Seat Change6: | 7 |
| Popular Vote6: | 61,613 |
| Percentage6: | 6.77% |
| Swing6: | 2.32pp |
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 July 1927.[1] Although the Social Democratic Party remained the largest in Parliament with 60 of the 200 seats, Juho Sunila of the Agrarian League formed an Agrarian minority government in December 1927. It remained intact until December 1928. Voter turnout was 55.8%.[2]
Finland was governed during the 1927 election by a Social Democratic minority government led by Väinö Tanner. President Lauri Kristian Relander, an Agrarian, had supported the establishment of that minority government, after the Agrarian Prime Minister Kyösti Kallio's first government had been defeated in a vote of confidence in November 1926. He had advised Tanner to prepare a liberal and moderate government programme, which the Agrarians and Progressives could support. In April 1927 President Relander caught a cold which developed into a life-threatening pneumonia. He had to go on sick leave, and Tanner became the Acting President. He even received the centre-right Civil Guards' (Suojeluskunnat in Finnish; a voluntary Finnish men's paramilitary defence organization) salute on the Defence Forces' Flag Day (then held on 16 May). The bourgeois (non-socialist) parties tried to get back into power by persuading enough Finnish voters to reject the Social Democratic minority government.[3] [4]