Which of these countries is more left-wing - France, Sweden or Finland?

[buritobr]

They have big social safety nets.
They have low income unequality.
They are secular. Sweden is a theocratic state only in the paper, but in the real life, it is much more secular than many countries that are secular in the paper.
Although they belong the capitalist world, they had independent foreign policies during the Cold War. They didn't join NATO during that time.

[tpfkaw]

Finland is actually a fairly conservative country, so it's out. Then I'd say Sweden is the more left-wing, given France's very nationalistic and misogynist culture.

[Gunnar Larsson]

 (from Wikipedia): The Oxford English Dictionary has this definition (of theocracy):

"A form of government in which God (or a deity) is recognized as the king or immediate ruler, and his laws are taken as the statute-book of the kingdom, these laws being usually administered by a priestly order as his ministers and agents; hence (loosely) a system of government by a sacerdotal order, claiming a divine commission; also, a state so governed".

Well, that would be a bit of a change :-)

[DavidB.]

Depends on how you define left-wing, of course, but in most cases the answer will be Sweden.

[SNJ1985]

Sweden.

[buritobr]

Why is Finland conservative?

[ingemann]

Why is Finland conservative?

Finland are less conservative than France, but why it's more conservative than Sweden, there's many reasons, from the fact that Finland are a relative young state, it have had a civil war between socialists and conservatives (which the latter won), it have had two wars with USSR, was a Soviet vassal for 45 years, was dirt poor compared to Sweden (reparations to USSR and the resettlement of 10% of the population) etc.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Sweden > Finalnd > France