Cities decided the victory for the Social Democratic Party – Tampere and Turku getting a Democratic mayor

The election result gives the SDP, the Greens and the Left Alliance a majority in the 67-seat Turku city council.

The Social Democrats won a landslide victory in the regional and local elections in Finland yesterday. Political scientist Eiríkur Bergmann Einarsson believes that politics in that country is becoming more serious due to the threat from Russia. The Social Democrats received 22.5% of the vote in the regional elections, adding 3.2% since the last election. In the local elections, the party added more, however, or 5.3%. It ended up with 23% of the …

The Coalition Party sprinted past the Social Democrats at the finish line in Helsinki.

This is the first time since the severe recession of the 1990s, when the National Coalition Party lost its position as the largest party in Tampere and Turku. It looks like the cities will be headed by a Democratic Party mayor.

The SDP election supervisors were filled with joy when the advance votes were announced.

The Tampere municipal elections will see a generational change in leadership if the SDP manages to defeat the Coalition. The SDP won a landslide victory in the municipal elections in Tampere. The SDP's 34-year-old MP Ilmari Nurminen defeated the Coalition's 79-year-old mayor Kalervo Kummola. Nurminen was also one of the top vote-getters in the municipal elections at the national level. The SDP's vote share eventually rose to 29 percent. The Coal…