Vote for the broad political centre in Finland To illustrate this, in Finland the combined share of votes for the three main centre-left and centreright parties has declined from a steady 65–70% up until the global financial and economic crisis to below 50 per cent in the most recent elections.
At the same time, the share of votes for the largest party has declined from roughly 25 percent to less than 20 percent. More generally in the advanced liberal democracies, the rise of populism has led to an increased fragmentation of the political system.