Final Finnish Election Results: True Finns Gain 34 Seats
John Ellis
Business Insider
4/17/2011
If you go to this chart, and you scroll through the various geographic voting districts in Finland, it gives you a good view of the breadth of the surge of the True Finns in Finnish politics.
They were expected to do well in the rural areas, which has long been the party’s base. But as the graphs show, they did well everywhere. They even polled pretty well in Helsinki, historically their weakest voting district…
…We don’t really know enough about Finnish politics to answer that question. What we do know is that the rise of the right in European politics is gathering strength and breadth.
The complete article, with graphics, is at Business Insider.
Related, also at Business Insider, The Euro is Sliding After Europe’s Worst Nightmare Comes True in Finland (with graphics)
…The euro is sliding noticeably following the big success of the anti-Bailout, anti-EU True Finns…
