Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 July 1936. Following the election Prime Minister Toivo Mikael Kivimäki of the National Progressive Party was defeated in a confidence vote in September 1936 and resigned in October. Kyösti Kallio of the Agrarian League formed a centrist minority government after Pehr Evind Svinhufvud refused to allow the Social Democrats to join the government. After Svinhufvud's defeat in the February 1937 presidential election, Kallio took office as the new President in March 1937, and he allowed the Social Democrats, Agrarians and Progressives to form the first centre-left or "red soil" Finnish government. Aimo Cajander (Progressive) became Prime Minister, although the real strong men of the government were Finance Minister Väinö Tanner and Defence Minister Juho Niukkanen (Agrarian).
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Image: Sisäministeri Ernst von Born 30.3.1940 (cropped)
Image: J.K. Paasikivi 1945 portrait (cropped)
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The National Coalition Party is a liberal-conservative political party in Finland.
Coalition election poster from 1953.
Parliamentary election poster from 2019.
A 1964 NCP poster with "for the security of the future", written in Finnish.