| Country: | Finland |
| Flag Year: | state-1920 |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 1927 Finnish parliamentary election |
| Previous Year: | 1927 |
| Next Election: | 1930 Finnish parliamentary election |
| Next Year: | 1930 |
| Seats For Election: | All 200 seats in the Parliament of Finland |
| Majority Seats: | 101 |
| Election Date: | 1–2 July 1929 |
| Image1: | Museovirasto.6BB33F68553927D67030B722A12C8818-0-original (cropped).jpg |
| Leader1: | Pekka Heikkinen |
| Party1: | Agrarian League (Finland) |
| Last Election1: | 22.56%, 52 seats |
| Seats1: | 60 |
| Popular Vote1: | 248,762 |
| Percentage1: | 26.15% |
| Seat Change1: | 8 |
| Swing1: | 3.59pp |
| Leader2: | Matti Paasivuori |
| Party2: | Social Democratic Party of Finland |
| Last Election2: | 28.30%, 60 seats |
| Seats2: | 59 |
| Popular Vote2: | 260,254 |
| Percentage2: | 27.36% |
| Seat Change2: | 1 |
| Swing2: | 0.94pp |
| Image3: | Kyösti Haataja 1917.jpg |
| Leader3: | Kyösti Haataja |
| Party3: | National Coalition Party |
| Last Election3: | 17.74%, 34 seats |
| Seats3: | 28 |
| Popular Vote3: | 138,008 |
| Percentage3: | 14.51% |
| Seat Change3: | 6 |
| Swing3: | 3.23pp |
| Party4: | STPV |
| Last Election4: | 12.08%, 20 seats |
| Seats4: | 23 |
| Seat Change4: | 3 |
| Popular Vote4: | 128,164 |
| Percentage4: | 13.47% |
| Swing4: | 1.39pp |
| Leader5: | Eric von Rettig |
| Party5: | Swedish People's Party of Finland |
| Last Election5: | 12.20%, 24 seats |
| Seats5: | 23 |
| Popular Vote5: | 108,886 |
| Percentage5: | 11.45% |
| Seat Change5: | 1 |
| Swing5: | 0.75pp |
| Image6: | OskariMantere.jpg |
| Leader6: | Oskari Mantere |
| Party6: | National Progressive Party (Finland) |
| Last Election6: | 6.77%, 10 seats |
| Seats6: | 7 |
| Seat Change6: | 3 |
| Popular Vote6: | 53,301 |
| Percentage6: | 5.60% |
| Swing6: | 1.17pp |
| Before Election: | Oskari Mantere |
| Prime Minister | |
| Before Party: | National Progressive Party (Finland) |
| Posttitle: | Prime Minister after election |
| After Election: | Kyösti Kallio |
| After Party: | Agrarian League (Finland) |
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 July 1929.[1] The result was a victory for the Agrarian League, which won 60 of the 200 seats in Parliament. Voter turnout was 55.6%.[2]
President Relander, an Agrarian, believed that the Finnish civil servants should get a pay raise, after a long period of frozen salaries, that had caused them to lose a significant amount of purchasing power. Most of his fellow Agrarians opposed him and the Progressive minority government of Prime Minister Mantere on this issue, arguing that the civil servants, on average, were still clearly better paid than the agricultural workers. After the Finnish Parliament rejected the government's legislative proposal on the increase of civil servants' salaries in April 1929, President Relander dissolved Parliament and called early elections for July. The Agrarians and Communists campaigned on the rejection of the civil servants' proposed salary increases, and both parties gained seats. The National Coalitioners and Progressives who favoured the salary increases suffered a defeat. President Relander was displeased by the Agrarians' victory, because he could not get along well with their leader, Mr. Kallio, but he reluctantly appointed Kallio as Prime Minister of an Agrarian minority government after the elections.[3] [4]