Juho Kusti Paasikivi National Coalition Urho Kekkonen Agrarian Two-stage presidential elections were held in Finland in 1956.

Kekkonen's colourful private life, including occasional heavy drinking and at least one extramarital affair, also provided his fierce opponents with verbal and political weapons to attack him.

He considered himself morally obliged to serve as president for a couple of more years, if many politicians urged him to do so.

The bitterly annoyed and disappointed President Paasikivi publicly denied his last-minute presidential candidacy two days later.

954; Tuomo Polvinen, J.K. Paasikivi - A Statesman's Life Work (Valtiomiehen elämäntyö), volume 5: 1948–1956.