1945 Finnish parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 17 and 18 March 1945. The broad-based centre-left government of Prime Minister Juho Kusti Paasikivi (National Coalition/Independent) remained in office after the elections.

17–18 March 1945

All 200 seats in the Parliament of Finland
101 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Onni Hiltunen	Cay Sundström	Viljami Kalliokoski
Party	SDP	SKDL	Agrarian
Last election	85 seats, 39.77%	–	56 seats, 22.86%
Seats won	50	49	49
Seat change	35	new	7
Popular vote	425,948	398,618	362,662
Percentage	25.08%	23.47%	21.35%
Swing	14.69pp	new	1.51pp

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Edwin Linkomies	Ernst von Born	Tyko Tarponen
Party	National Coalition	RKP	National Progressive
Last election	25 seats, 13.58%	18 seats, 9.61%	6 seats, 4.81%
Seats won	28	14	9
Seat change	5	4	3
Popular vote	255,394	134,106	87,868
Percentage	15.04%	7.90%	5.17%
Swing	1.46pp	1.71pp	0.36pp

	Seventh party

Party	Swedish Left
Last election	0 seats, 0.46%
Seats won	1
Seat change	1
Popular vote	8,192
Percentage	0.48%
Swing	0.02pp

Prime Minister before election

Juho Kusti Paasikivi
National Coalition

Prime Minister after election

Juho Kusti Paasikivi
National Coalition

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