2023 election, 46 percent representatives in the Parliament of Finland (in Finnish: eduskunta) were female. Finland is known for being the first country in Europe to grant women the right to vote and run for office, as well as the first to grant universal suffrage regardless of ethnicity or resources. These rights were adopted in 1906, the same year as the Parliament of Finland was established. The third female prime minister of Finland, Sanna Marin, was instated in December 2019. At that time, she was both the world's youngest current state leader as well as the youngest prime minister ever in Finland.
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Statistics Finland. "Number of Female Members of Parliament in Finland from 1983 to 2023." Statista, Statista Inc., 27 Apr 2023, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1082500/number-of-female-members-of-parliament-in-finland/
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Number of female members of parliament in Finland from 1983 to 2023 [Graph], Statistics Finland, April 27, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1082500/number-of-female-members-of-parliament-in-finland/