Liberal Swedish Party

The Liberal Swedish Party ( sv, Svenska frisinnade partiet, fi, Ruotsalainen vapaamielinen puolue, , Swedish Free-Minded Party, ''RVP'') was a

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, working amongst the Swedish-speaking minority. The party founded in 1919 under the name of Swedish Left (In Swedish: ''Svensk Vänster'', SV and in Finnish Ruotsalainen vasemmisto, RV) until the 1947. Ideologically the party preferred a

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state rather than a

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, which differentiated them from the majority of the

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, which tended to hold more conservative views. The party was represented in the

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and

Max Sergelius Maximilian (Max) Sergelius (5 May 1879 – 20 January 1958; former surname ''Sergejeff'') was a Finnish engineer and politician, born in Turku. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1926 to 1939 and from 1945 to 1948, representin ...

. The party was dissolved in 1951. In the 1945 parliamentary election the party got 8 192 votes (0.48%) and one seat. Defunct political parties in Finland Defunct liberal political parties Radical parties Republican parties Political parties established in 1919 Political parties disestablished in 1951 1919 establishments in Finland 1951 disestablishments in Finland Liberal parties in Finland {{Europe-liberal-party-stub