We were finally able to obtain a complete copy of a survey of Finnish journalists. This is the final sample for our large cross-national journalist project.
Unfortunately, it’s in unreadable Finnish! However, Twitter to the rescue and Fatidicus Aeternus provided a translation. I post it here for prosperity’s sake and so others can easily find it:
| Finnish name | Party | Journalists% | Adjusted | General% |
| Kansallinen Kokoomus | National Coalition Party | 18 | 21.95 | 20.4 |
| Suomen sosialidemokraattinen puolue | Social Democratic Party of Finland | 8 | 9.76 | 19.1 |
| Perussuomalaiset | Finns Party | 2 | 2.44 | 19.1 |
| Suomen Keskusta | Centre Party of Finland | 9 | 10.98 | 15.8 |
| Vasemmistoliitto | Left Alliance | 12 | 14.63 | 8.1 |
| Vihreä liitto | Green League | 26 | 31.71 | 7.3 |
| Svenska folkpartiet i Finland | Swedish People’s Party of Finland | 5 | 6.10 | 4.3 |
| Kristillisdemokraatit | Christian Democrats | 2 | 2.44 | 4 |
| Åländsk Samling | Åland Coalition | 0 | 0.00 | 0.3 |
| Don’t want to say | 13 | |||
| No vote | 5 | |||
| total | total | |||
| 100 | 100.00 | |||
| definite only | ||||
| 82 |
The adjusted column are the normalized values calculated by distributing the non-voting/don’t want to say votes equally among the parties (by multiplying by 100/82).
As a bonus, there’s also this, left for the reader to ponder:
Which party would you never vote for?
44% Finns Party
12% no party out of question
11% did not want to answer
10% Christian Democrats
8% National Coalition Party
6% Left Alliance
4% Green League
2% Centre Party
1% Swedish People’s Party
1% Social Democratic Party
Journalists mirror general public in the question of joining NATO: 18% for and 62% against, general public 17% for and 62% against.
Greater wealth redistribution: 67% for 24% against CEO’s salaries are problematic >71% agree >22% disagree
47% of the general public supported gay marriage, while 79% of journalists did in 2010
~60% of Finns thought immigration policy was not strict enough, 13% among journalists
