# 1995 Finnish parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 19 March 1995.
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) achieved the best result of any party since World War II, winning 63 of the 200 seats in the Eduskunta and defeating the incumbent centre-right coalition led by the Centre Party. The result was attributed to the government's unpopular austerity policies as well as lingering effects of the early 1990s recession.
After the election, a five party "Rainbow Coalition" was formed, between the SDP, National Coalition Party, Left Alliance, Swedish People's Party and the Green League, with SDP leader Paavo Lipponen appointed Prime Minister.

## Results

| | Social Democratic Party | 785,637 | 28.25 | 63 | +15 |
| | Centre Party | 552,003 | 19.85 | 44 | –11 |
| | National Coalition Party | 497,624 | 17.89 | 39 | –1 |
| | Left Alliance | 310,340 | 11.16 | 22 | +3 |
| | Green League | 181,198 | 6.52 | 9 | –1 |
| | Swedish People's Party | 142,874 | 5.14 | 11 | 0 |
| | Finnish Christian League | 82,311 | 2.96 | 7 | –1 |
| | Young Finns | 78,066 | 2.81 | 2 | New |
| | Finnish Rural Party | 36,185 | 1.30 | 1 | –6 |
| | Alliance for Free Finland | 28,067 | 1.01 | 0 | New |
| | Liberal People's Party | 16,247 | 0.58 | 0 | –1 |
| | Women's Party | 7,919 | 0.28 | 0 | 0 |
| | Ecological Party the Greens | 7,865 | 0.28 | 1 | 0 |
| | Natural Law Party | 6,819 | 0.25 | 0 | New |
| | Liberals for Åland | 6,038 | 0.22 | 1 | 0 |
| | Pensioners for People | 5,124 | 0.18 | 0 | 0 |
| | Communist Workers' Party – For Peace and Socialism | 4,784 | 0.17 | 0 | 0 |
| | Pensioners' Party | 3,974 | 0.14 | 0 | 0 |
| | Borgerlig samlingslista (C–FS–Ob) | 2,958 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 |
| | Joint Responsibility Party | 1,706 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 |
| | Åland Social Democrats | 909 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 |
| | Others | 22,273 | 0.80 | 0 | – |
| Total | Total | 2,780,921 | 100.00 | 200 | 0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 2,780,921 | 99.19 | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 22,681 | 0.81 | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 2,803,602 | 100.00 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 4,088,358 | 68.58 | | |
| Source: Tilastokeskus, ASUB ||||||

### By electoral district

| Electoral district | Total seats | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won |
| Electoral district | Total seats | SDP | Kesk | Kok | Vas | RKP | Vihr | SKL | Nuor | SMP | EKO | L |
| Åland | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Central Finland | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | | | 1 | | | | |
| Häme | 13 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | | | 1 | | | | |
| Helsinki | 19 | 6 | | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | | 1 | | | |
| Kymi | 13 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | | | | |
| Lapland | 8 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | | | | | | | |
| North Karelia | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | | | | | | | | |
| North Savo | 10 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | | | 1 | | | | |
| Oulu | 18 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 3 | | 1 | | | | | |
| Pirkanmaa | 16 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | | 1 | | | | 1 | |
| Satakunta | 11 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | | | | | | | |
| South Savo | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | | | | 1 | | | | |
| Uusima | 31 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | | | |
| Vaasa | 18 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 4 | | 1 | | 1 | | |
| Varsinais-Suomi | 17 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | | | | | |
| Total | 200 | 63 | 44 | 39 | 22 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Source: Statistics Finland |||||||||||||

### By province

| Province | Social Democratic | Centre | National Coalition | Left Alliance | Green League | Swedish People's | Christian League | Young Finns | Rural Party | Alliance | Liberal People's | Electorate | Votes | Valid | Invalid |
| Southern Savonia | 31,890 | 26,559 | 13,841 | 3,082 | 4,899 | 0 | 4,157 | 1,076 | 3,753 | 1,300 | 123 | 135,397 | 92,275 | 91,384 | 891 |
| Northern Savonia | 32,905 | 42,915 | 16,674 | 21,203 | 7,369 | 0 | 4,364 | 2,474 | 2,877 | 1,629 | 274 | 199,660 | 134,227 | 133,259 | 968 |
| North Karelia | 36,839 | 25,251 | 11,714 | 5,065 | 4,134 | 0 | 6,226 | 708 | 1,868 | 717 | 224 | 135,731 | 94,191 | 93,539 | 652 |
| Kainuu | 6,724 | 16,366 | 4,935 | 12,709 | 2,109 | 0 | 1,084 | 471 | 388 | 1,614 | 1,031 | 72,939 | 48,598 | 48,118 | 480 |
| Uusimaa | 192,889 | 36,779 | 143,737 | 61,533 | 72,789 | 64,218 | 12,067 | 37,658 | 2,949 | 7,497 | 2,084 | 909,997 | 658,294 | 652,716 | 5,578 |
| Eastern Uusimaa | 14,097 | 3,954 | 4,814 | 2,649 | 2,299 | 15,507 | 536 | 1,132 | 193 | 320 | 51 | 65,300 | 47,086 | 46,697 | 389 |
| Southwest Finland | 67,865 | 36,880 | 57,235 | 32,634 | 14,320 | 11,017 | 4,559 | 10,665 | 2,624 | 2,290 | 487 | 334,154 | 247,761 | 245,994 | 1,767 |
| Tavastia Proper | 33,434 | 15,617 | 22,893 | 8,229 | 5,696 | 0 | 3,655 | 1,317 | 423 | 505 | 85 | 127,549 | 94,859 | 93,925 | 934 |
| Päijänne Tavastia | 33,601 | 13,274 | 29,766 | 9,873 | 5,725 | 109 | 4,853 | 2,400 | 1,633 | 1,016 | 468 | 153,856 | 104,974 | 104,040 | 934 |
| Kymenlaakso | 43,682 | 15,851 | 23,889 | 9,442 | 7,111 | 0 | 3,352 | 1,290 | 229 | 953 | 262 | 152,169 | 108,372 | 107,559 | 813 |
| South Karelia | 27,828 | 18,919 | 15,752 | 2,681 | 5,190 | 0 | 2,455 | 1,164 | 579 | 653 | 784 | 110,296 | 77,004 | 76,357 | 647 |
| Central Finland | 43,916 | 35,886 | 18,467 | 17,947 | 8,427 | 0 | 9,724 | 2,361 | 943 | 1,212 | 475 | 197,959 | 141,369 | 140,306 | 1,063 |
| Southern Ostrobothnia | 18,168 | 57,084 | 19,671 | 4,940 | 3,419 | 254 | 3,359 | 924 | 5,762 | 544 | 113 | 152,617 | 115,865 | 115,171 | 694 |
| Ostrobothnia | 19,876 | 9,966 | 6,765 | 7,407 | 1,965 | 47,267 | 2,892 | 823 | 677 | 476 | 533 | 131,511 | 99,754 | 99,100 | 654 |
| Satakunta | 46,996 | 29,443 | 26,692 | 21,057 | 4,395 | 1 | 4,700 | 1,111 | 3,091 | 604 | 929 | 191,292 | 142,330 | 141,164 | 1,166 |
| Pirkanmaa | 73,178 | 33,646 | 48,750 | 33,277 | 15,790 | 0 | 6,392 | 5,613 | 3,395 | 2,278 | 3,399 | 333,840 | 242,226 | 240,209 | 2,017 |
| Central Ostrobothnia | 7,429 | 17,106 | 2,539 | 2,549 | 1,184 | 2,862 | 3,533 | 841 | 1,288 | 320 | 99 | 53,280 | 40,414 | 40,080 | 334 |
| Northern Ostrobothniaa | 30,798 | 72,673 | 17,314 | 24,898 | 11,008 | 0 | 2,547 | 4,547 | 2,384 | 3,487 | 4,471 | 254,316 | 182,207 | 180,758 | 1,449 |
| Lapland | 20,333 | 42,590 | 9,779 | 27,675 | 2,558 | 0 | 1,545 | 1,165 | 995 | 537 | 265 | 151,860 | 109,448 | 108,397 | 1,051 |
| Åland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18,938 | 9,874 | 9,799 | |
| Source: European Election Database Archived 2021-06-24 at the Wayback Machine ||||||||||||||||