This article is about the Finnish party. For the El Salvadoran party, see National Coalition Party (El Salvador).
National Coalition Party
Kansallinen Kokoomus(Finnish) Samlingspartiet(Swedish)
Abbreviation
Finnish: Kok Swedish: Saml
Chairperson
Petteri Orpo
Secretary
Kristiina Kokko [fi]
General Secretary
Mikko Kortelainen [fi]
Parliamentary group leader
Matias Marttinen
Deputy chairs
Antti Häkkänen Elina Valtonen Anna-Kaisa Ikonen
Founded
9 December 1918; 105 years ago (9 December 1918)
Merger of
Finnish Party, Young Finnish Party
Headquarters
Töölönkatu 3, 00100 Helsinki
Newspaper
Nykypäivä [fi]
Youth wing
Youth of the National Coalition Party
Women's wing
Kokoomuksen Naisten Liitto [fi]
Student wing
Student Union of National Coalition Party – Tuhatkunta [fi]
Children's wing
Kansallinen Lastenliitto [fi]
LGBT wing
Kansallinen sateenkaariryhmä – Kasary [fi]
Membership (2021)
c. 27,000[1]
Ideology
Liberal conservatism
Political position
Centre-right
European affiliation
European People's Party
International affiliation
International Democracy Union
European Parliament group
European People's Party
Nordic affiliation
Conservative Group
Colours
Dark blue
Eduskunta
48 / 200
European Parliament
3 / 14
Municipalities
1,492 / 8,859
County seats
289 / 1,379
Website
kokoomus.fi
Politics of Finland
Political parties
Elections
The National Coalition Party (NCP; Finnish: Kansallinen Kokoomus[ˈkɑnsɑlːinenˈkokoːmus], Kok; Swedish: Samlingspartiet, Saml) is a liberal-conservative political party in Finland.
Founded in 1918, the National Coalition Party is one of the "big three" parties that have dominated Finnish national politics for several decades, along with the Social Democratic Party and the Centre Party. The current party chair is Petteri Orpo, elected on 11 June 2016. The party self-statedly bases its politics on "freedom, responsibility and democracy, equal opportunities, education, supportiveness, tolerance and caring"[2] and supports multiculturalism and gay rights. Their foreign stances are pro-NATO and pro-European oriented, the party is also a member of the European People's Party (EPP).[3] The party is described by literature as a liberal,[4] conservative[5] as well as a liberal-conservative[6] party on the centre-right[7] with catch-all characteristics.[8]
The party's vote share has been approximately 20% in parliamentary elections since the 1990s and has only been out of coalition governments for eight years since then. It won 44 out of 200 seats in the parliamentary elections of 2011, becoming the largest party in the Finnish Parliament (Finnish: Eduskunta; Swedish: Riksdagen) for the first time in its history. On the municipal level, it emerged as the most popular party for the first time in 2008. More recently, the NCP came to be the largest party during the Finnish 2023 general election, with 48 seats, and has been the lead party in the governing Orpo Cabinet since 20 June 2023.
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^"Programme of Principles". National Coalition Party. 2016. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
^Terry, Chris (3 March 2014). "National Coalition Party (KOK)". The Democratic Society. Archived from the original on 19 November 2017.
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^Lauri Karvonen (2014). Parties, Governments and Voters in Finland: Politics Under Fundamental Societal Transformation. ECPR Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-910259-33-7. Archived from the original on 3 April 2023. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
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