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Federal elections were held in Steinborg on 25 October 2009 to elect the members of the 21st [[Federal Parliament]]. All 200 memeber of the Federal Parliament were elected in 15 multi-member constituencies.
The economic recession that started in 2006 was the biggest issue of the election. The coalition government consisting of the [[Moderate Forum (Steinborg)|Christian Democratic Forum]] and the [[Liberals(Steinborg)|Liberals]] failed to properly deal with the crisis and the recession went on to impact the Steinborgian economy to election day and beyond. As a result, the coalition government was languishing in the polls since almost the beggining of their term. The opposition parties, and especially the [[Social Democratic Party (Steinborg)|Social Democratic Party]] and the [[Worker's Party (Steinborg)|Worker's Party]], took advantage of the negative economic situtation, heavily criticizing the government and making economic reform a central theme of their campaign.
In a historic vote, the parties of the coalition government were decimated, losing 60% of their previous vote share and seats. The Christian Democratic Forum failed to place first or second in an election for the first time in its history. The Social Democratic Party emerged as the relative winner of the election, while the Worker's Party made the biggest gains and received its highest vote share ever. Three new parties, the Alternative, the People's Party and New Democracy entered parliament for the first time and they perfomed better than opinion polls had predicted. Turnout also reached a historic high of 72.4%, a record that held until the [[2017 Steinborgian federal election|2017 federal election]].
[[Ants Raud]], the leader of the Social Democratic Party, successfuly negotiated a coalition government with the Worker's Party and was sworn in as [[Paalik]] on 28 November 2024.

Latest revision as of 08:50, 2 November 2024

2009 Steinborgian federal election
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All 355 seats in the Federal Parliament
178 seats needed for a majority
Registered69,371,263
Turnout52,261,220 (75.3%) Increase 12.2 pp
  First party Second party Third party
  Ants Raud1.png Indrek Saar1.png Peteri Laaksonen1.png
Leader Ants Raud Indrek Saar Peteri Laaksonen
Party Social Democrats Worker's Christian Democrats
Last election 88 seats, 23.2% 28 seats, 7.5% 145 seats, 38.4%
Seats won 97 54 52
Seat change Increase 9 Increase 26 Decrease 93
Popular vote 13,569,842 7,530,416 7,500,836
Percentage 26.4% 14.6% 14.6%
Swing Increase 3.2 pp Increase 7.1 pp Decrease 23.8 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
  Kirsi Laine1.png Olli Uusitalo1.png Toomas Koppel1.png
Leader Kirsi Laine Olli Uusitalo Toomas Koppel
Party Progressives Alternative Liberals
Last election 27 seats, 7.1% 11 seats, 2.8% 39 seats, 10.4%
Seats won 38 35 22
Seat change Increase 11 Increase 24 Decrease 17
Popular vote 5,370,413 5,269,765 3,024,508
Percentage 10.4% 10.2% 5.9%
Swing Increase 3.1 pp Increase 7.4 pp Decrease 4.5 pp
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
  Kristel Miller1.png Karin Lill1.png Timo Jalonen1.png
Leader Kristel Miller Karin Lill Timo Jalonen
Party Greens New Democracy People's
Last election 17 seats, 4.6% Did not exist Did not exist
Seats won 22 19 16
Seat change Increase 5 New New
Popular vote 2,829,042 2,751,300 2,450,219
Percentage 5.5% 5.4% 4.8%
Swing Increase 0.9 pp New New
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