With less than a year before parliamentary elections, PM Petteri Orpo’s National Coalition Party remains in second place but has gained ground against its main rival, the Social Democratic Party.
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The Antti Lindtman-led Social Democratic Party (SDP) still holds the top slot among Finland’s political parties, according to the latest Yle/Taloustutkimus public opinion survey.
The SDP lost 0.7 percentage points in support, falling to 23 percent, while Prime Minister Petteri Orpo‘s National Coalition Party rose by the same margin to stand at just over 18 percent in the latest rankings.
“Support for the SDP has been unusually high. It was really just a matter of time before it would decrease somewhat. But the SDP’s situation is still very good,” noted Tuomo Turja, research director at Taloustutkimus.
The gap in support between the SDP and the NCP is still considerable at 4.7 percentage points, but it was over six percentage points in the previous poll.
There were no dramatic shifts in the popularity of the other main parties. The opposition Centre and Finance Minister Riikka Purra‘s Finns Party both lost support incrementally, remaining in third and fourth place respectively.
Among the other parties, support for the opposition Left Alliance and the governing coalition’s Swedish People’s Party both edged up slightly — while the Green Party is losing ground.
“The Left Alliance is gaining voters from the Greens, but the Greens are also losing some support to the National Coalition Party,” Turja said.
Orpo’s four-party right-wing government has less than a year left in its legislative term, with parliamentary elections set for April 2027.
Taloustutkimus interviewed 2,244 adults from mainland Finland between 11 May and 1 June, with 75 percent of respondents stating which party they would vote for if the parliamentary elections were held now. The margin of error is two percentage points in either direction.
