The victory of the National Coalition, the unprecedented 15 percentage point gains by the True Finns and the unseen losses suffered by the Centre Party made this a historic election in Finland. The right and, principally, the extreme-right were the champions from last Sunday, with the “True Finns”, nationalist party, increasing from 4 to 39 members and gaining the third place with only 1,4% of the winners – the  National Coalition Party.

The conservative National Coalition party (rather liberal nowadays) won 44 seats in the 200-seat Finnish Parliament. The Social Democrats are the second biggest party with 42 seats and the populist True Finns have 39, which is a 34-seat gain on the 2007 election. Most parliament parties lost seats, while the True Finns got much more. The National Coalition, meanwhile, became the biggest parliament party for the first time in history.

The Centre Party (liberal on European Parliament, but conservative really), whose leader is outgoing Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi, lost the most support, with its MPs now 16 fewer in number. It has 35 seats in the new parliament.

The Left Alliance attained 14 seats. Best result came in Helsinki, where Paavo Arhinmäki, the president of the Left was number one with more than 17 000 personal votes.

The Greens fell to ten MPs. The Swedish People’s Party has nine and the Christian Democrats six.

Political negotiations for the coalition will be centered on Finland’s position inside European Union, as they have shown reserves in relation to "support" Portugal and other countries are not confined to extreme right.