Finns Party collapses in municipal elections as SDP wins key cities

Finns Party collapses in municipal elections as SDP wins key cities

Support for the Finns Party fell sharply in Finland’s 2025 municipal and regional elections. The party received less than 8 percent of votes in both contests. In 2021 municipal elections, the figure was 14.5 percent. Riikka Purra, chair of the Finns Party, described the outcome as “ugly numbers”. She said the results represented an “unprecedented red shift” in Finnish politics.

Finland's regional and local government elections on Sunday were won by the opposition Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP), with the Native Finns party losing the most support.

The Finns Party dropped to sixth place in the municipal and regional elections.

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