Finnish Interior Minister Mari Rantanen of the Finns Party won a confidence vote in Parliament on Friday afternoon by 119 votes to 52.
There were no abstentions from the motion, while 28 MPs were absent.
The vote was necessary after two opposition parties — the Left Alliance and the Green Party — filed a motion of no confidence in Rantanen on Thursday over her handling of Finland's quota refugee numbers for next year.
Finnish media reported earlier in the autumn that Rantanen and her party colleague Lulu Ranne — who temporarily replaced Rantanen while she was on family-related leave — had directed interior ministry officials to prepare to exclude quota refugees from Muslim-majority countries, while increasing the quota for Christian-majority nations.
The ministry announced the refugee quota allocation on Thursday, noting in a press release that the plans were reviewed after "suspicions surrounding the previous preparation".
Finland's Non-Discrimination Ombudsman has launched an investigation into reports the quota was being allocated on religious grounds, having previously stated that such a policy would be discriminatory.
Yle received ministerial emails via a freedom of information request, which revealed that as recently as October, the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs intervened in the attempts by "political leadership" at the interior ministry to allocate more quota places to refugees from Christian-majority countries.
Rantanen has denied that there was a plan to select refugees on the basis of religion.
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