The first Finnish election was held in 1996.
This foreshadowed their major gains in the 1970 Finnish parliamentary elections.
In the Finnish presidential election 1950 the party called for an electoral boycott because there were no suitable candidates.
Lipponen was his party's nominee in the 2012 Finnish presidential election.
This was also the first Finnish presidential election to include a popular female candidate.
This was controversial as negative campaigning is unusual in Finnish elections.
In 2007 he was a candidate at the Finnish parliamentary election but was not elected.
The Finnish parliamentary election of 1987 moved the country somewhat to the right.
In the Finnish presidential elections of 1956, he won 20 electoral votes.
This system is used in France and the Finnish presidential election.