| Country: | Finland |
| Flag Year: | state-1920 |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 1936 Finnish parliamentary election |
| Previous Year: | 1936 |
| Next Election: | 1945 Finnish parliamentary election |
| Next Year: | 1945 |
| Seats For Election: | All 200 seats in the Parliament of Finland |
| Majority Seats: | 101 |
| Election Date: | 1–2 July 1939 |
| Image1: | Kaarlo Harvala 1927.jpg |
| Leader1: | Kaarlo Harvala |
| Party1: | Social Democratic Party of Finland |
| Last Election1: | 83 seats, 38.59% |
| Seats1: | 85 |
| Popular Vote1: | 515,980 |
| Percentage1: | 39.77% |
| Seat Change1: | 2 |
| Swing1: | 1.18pp |
| Leader2: | Pekka Heikkinen |
| Party2: | Agrarian League (Finland) |
| Last Election2: | 53 seats, 22.41% |
| Seats2: | 56 |
| Popular Vote2: | 296,529 |
| Percentage2: | 22.86% |
| Seat Change2: | 3 |
| Swing2: | 0.45pp |
| Image3: | Pekka Pennanen (cropped).jpg |
| Leader3: | Pekka Pennanen |
| Party3: | National Coalition Party |
| Last Election3: | 20 seats, 10.36% |
| Seats3: | 25 |
| Popular Vote3: | 176,215 |
| Percentage3: | 13.58% |
| Seat Change3: | 5 |
| Swing3: | 3.22pp |
| Image4: | Sisäministeri Ernst_von Born 30.3.1940 (cropped).jpg |
| Leader4: | Ernst von Born |
| Party4: | Swedish People's Party of Finland |
| Last Election4: | 21 seats, 11.20% |
| Seats4: | 18 |
| Seat Change4: | 3 |
| Popular Vote4: | 124,720 |
| Percentage4: | 9.61% |
| Swing4: | 1.59pp |
| Image5: | Vilho Annala portrait (cropped).jpg |
| Leader5: | Vilho Annala |
| Party5: | IKL |
| Last Election5: | 14 seats, 8.34% |
| Seats5: | 8 |
| Popular Vote5: | 86,219 |
| Percentage5: | 6.68% |
| Seat Change5: | 6 |
| Swing5: | 1.66pp |
| Image6: | Aimo Cajander in 1939 (cropped).jpg |
| Leader6: | Aimo Cajander |
| Party6: | National Progressive Party (Finland) |
| Last Election6: | 7 seats, 6.28% |
| Seats6: | 6 |
| Popular Vote6: | 62,387 |
| Percentage6: | 4.81% |
| Seat Change6: | 1 |
| Swing6: | 1.47pp |
| Party7: | Party of Smallholders and Rural People |
| Last Election7: | 2 seats, 2.60% |
| Seats7: | 2 |
| Seat Change7: | 0 |
| Popular Vote7: | 27,783 |
| Percentage7: | 2.14% |
| Swing7: | 0.46pp |
| Before Election: | Aimo Cajander |
| Prime Minister | |
| Before Party: | National Progressive Party (Finland) |
| Posttitle: | Prime Minister after election |
| After Election: | Aimo Cajander |
| After Party: | National Progressive Party (Finland) |
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 July 1939.[1] Following the elections, the National Progressive Party-led government of Aimo Cajander continued in office. However, he was replaced by Risto Ryti's Progressive-led war government in December 1939.
The leading issues were the distribution of the growing prosperity's benefits, the prospects for the centre-left coalition government's continuation, the right-wing opposition's criticism of the government's numerous and allegedly poorly prepared legislative proposals, and the Finnish national security under the threat of World War II. Prime Minister Cajander opposed the notable increase of defence spending before the elections, because that would require raising taxes. Finance Minister Väinö Tanner and Governor of the Bank of Finland, Risto Ryti, opposed the taking of a foreign loan to buy modern military equipment for the Finnish army, although the Finnish national debt in 1939 was among the lowest in the Western world. Most Finnish voters were apparently satisfied with the centre-left Cajander government's performance, because it received almost three-quarters of the seats. The voter turnout was the highest of the Finnish parliamentary elections of the 1920s and 1930s.[2] [3] [4]