765:, who won on the third ballot. The turnout for the popular vote was just 39.7%. The outgoing president, K.J. Ståhlberg, had refused to seek a second term. According to the late Agrarian and Centrist politician, Johannes Virolainen, he stepped down after one term because he believed that an incumbent president would be too likely to win re-election. President Ståhlberg claimed that he had already completed his political service to Finland as president. Moreover, he wanted to step down because many right-wing Finns (especially veterans of the Civil War and supporters of the Greater Finland movement) opposed him. According to Pentti Virrankoski, a Finnish historian, President Ståhlberg hoped that his retirement would advance parliamentary politics in Finland. Ståhlberg's party, the Progressives, chose Risto Ryti, the governor of the Bank of Finland, as their presidential candidate. The Agrarians only chose Lauri Kristian Relander as their presidential candidate in early February 1925. The National Coalitioners originally chose former Regent and Prime Minister Pehr Evind Svinhufvud as their presidential candidate, but before the presidential electors met, they replaced Svinhufvud with Hugo Suolahti, an academician working as the rector (principal) of the University of Helsinki (Heikinheimo, Ilmari, Suomen elämäkerrasto (The Biography Compilation of Finland), pg. 731, Helsinki: Werner Söderström Publications Ltd., 1955). Relander surprised many politicians by defeating Ryti as a dark-horse presidential candidate, although he had served as the Speaker of the Finnish Parliament, and as Governor of the Province of Viipuri. Ståhlberg had quietly favoured Ryti as his successor, because he considered Ryti a principled and unselfish politician. He was disappointed with Relander's victory, and told one of his daughters that if he had known beforehand that Relander would be elected as his successor, he would have considered seeking a second term (see, for example, Sakari Virkkunen, Finland's Presidents I / Suomen presidentit I. Helsinki: Otava Ltd., 1994, pgs. 183-187 (Ståhlberg), pgs. 10–17; Johannes Virolainen, The Last Electoral Term / Viimeinen vaalikausi. Helsinki: Otava Ltd., 1991; Raimo Salokangas, "The Independent Republic" (Itsenäinen tasavalta), pgs. 631–632 in Seppo Zetterberg et al., eds., A Small Giant of the Finnish History / Suomen historian pikkujättiläinen. Helsinki: WSOY, 2003; Pentti Virrankoski, A History of Finland / Suomen historia, volumes 1&2. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society (Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden seura), 2009, pgs. 791–792).
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738:
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1360:Elections in Europe: A data handbook
19:1925 Finnish presidential election
14:
2113:Presidential elections in Finland
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702:
202:
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70:
25:
688:Politics of the European Union
511:National Coalition Party (KOK)
383:Regional Administrative Courts
1:
501:Social Democratic Party (SDP)
531:Swedish People's Party (RKP)
378:Supreme Administrative Court
1358:& Philip Stöver (2010)
1336:Source: Nohlen & Stöver
652:Ministry of Foreign Affairs
619:Wellbeing services counties
228:Declaration of Independence
2139:
1140:National Progressive Party
991:Source: Nohln & Stöver
872:National Progressive Party
2118:1925 elections in Finland
2089:
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1378:Nohlen & Stöver, p627
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147:
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35:
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1112:National Coalition Party
890:Socialist Workers' Party
818:National Coalition Party
554:Administrative divisions
536:Christian Democrats (KD)
1440:Parliamentary elections
1224:Social Democratic Party
1075:Lauri Kristian Relander
1052:Social Democratic Party
800:Social Democratic Party
763:Lauri Kristian Relander
174:Lauri Kristian Relander
91:Lauri Kristian Relander
1851:Presidential elections
1172:Swedish People's Party
854:Swedish People's Party
668:Diplomatic missions of
395:Chancellor of Justice
373:Administrative Courts
159:Kaarlo Juho StĂĄhlberg
163:National Progressive
118:Electoral vote
112:National Progressive
2123:January 1925 events
1655:Municipal elections
1290:Invalid/blank votes
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591:Ekonomiska regioner
541:Movement Now (LIIK)
526:Left Alliance (VAS)
521:Green League (VIHR)
516:Centre Party (KESK)
195:Politics of Finland
20:
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709:Finland portal
390:Prosecutor General
131:Popular vote
47:15–16 January 1925
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625:Hyvinvointialueet
494:Political parties
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632:
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1000:
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1234:
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1221:
1219:Väinö Voionmaa
1216:
1213:
1212:
1210:
1207:
1204:
1201:
1198:
1193:
1191:Matti Väisänen
1188:
1185:
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1177:
1174:
1169:
1167:Karl Söderholm
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987:
985:
982:
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961:
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953:
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892:
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880:
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869:
866:
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851:
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844:
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833:
830:
829:
826:
823:
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815:
812:
811:
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797:
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790:
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767:
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750:
749:
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713:
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695:
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690:
683:
682:
675:
674:
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658:Elina Valtonen
648:
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638:
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634:
629:Välfärdsområde
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615:
600:Municipalities
598:
596:
579:
577:
560:
557:
552:
551:
548:
547:
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1356:Dieter Nohlen
1352:
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1327:
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1301:
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2068:Referendums
1313:Total votes
1267:Valid votes
1019:Third round
1013:First round
965:Total votes
939:Valid votes
680:Ambassadors
587:Seutukunnat
581:Sub-regions
314:Legislative
2107:Categories
1343:References
1135:Risto Ryti
672:in Finland
656:Minister:
464:European:
320:Parliament
295:Government
97:Risto Ryti
86:Candidate
1007:Candidate
981:1,572,485
568:Maakunnat
409:elections
344:Judiciary
261:President
255:Executive
610:Kommuner
572:Landskap
243:Military
178:Agrarian
107:Agrarian
1362:, p606
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942:621,919
924:621,919
840:123,932
822:141,240
804:165,091
769:Results
759:Finland
562:Regions
407:Recent
325:Speaker
139:71,199
135:123,932
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876:71,199
858:78,422
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103:Party
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1279:99.67
1240:Total
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1125:26.76
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1099:61.21
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921:Total
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861:12.61
843:19.93
825:22.71
807:26.55
792:Seats
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1302:0.33
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1209:5.35
1203:5.33
1065:0.67
958:0.36
913:0.13
897:6.63
477:2024
471:2019
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449:2019
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