According to a poll commissioned by the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, the True Finns have the support of 16 percent of working class voters, making it the third most popular in the demographic. The most popular party among manual workers is the Social Democratic Party, with 25 percent support, followed by the Centre Party, which gets 18 per cent.
The True Finns are believed to have made gains at the expense of the Centre Party, the Left Alliance and the SDP.
The poll involved interviews with 11,000 Finns aged 18 to 29. The interviews were conducted between April and September this year.
