Swedish general election, 1991

Swedish general election, 1991

1988 ← 15 September 1991 → 1994

All 349 seats to the Riksdag 175 seats were needed for a majority   First party Second party   Leader Ingvar Carlsson Carl Bildt Party Social Democrats Moderate Party Alliance Left-Wing Centre-Right Last election 156 seats 66 seats Seats won 138 seats 80 seats Seat change –18 +14 Popular vote 2,062,761 1,199,394 Percentage 37.71% 21.92%

Prime Minister before election Ingvar Carlsson Social Democrats Elected Prime Minister Carl Bildt Moderate Party

General elections were held in Sweden on 15 September 1991. The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in the Riksdag, winning 138 of the 349 seats.

The election was notable due to the rise of a new right-wing party named New Democracy which succeeded in securing a parliamentary mandate for the first (and last) time. The four parties of the centre-right coalition (the Centre Party, Liberal People's Party, Moderate Party, and Christian Democratic Society Party) were allocated a combined total of 171 seats, 17 more than the two left-wing parties' 154, but still less than the 175 necessary for a majority. Thus the centre-right bloc was dependent upon New Democracy to secure a parliamentary majority.

This election was also famous for the performance of the Donald Duck Party, which collected 1,535 votes, enough to make it the 9th largest in Sweden. The protest party's platform consisted of the demand for "free liquor and wider sidewalks."

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Swedish Social Democratic Party	2,062,761	37.7	138	–18
Moderate Party	1,199,394	21.9	80	+14
Liberal People's Party	499,356	9.1	33	–11
Centre Party	465,175	8.5	31	–11
Christian Democratic Society Party	390,351	7.1	26	+26
New Democracy	368,281	6.8	25	New
Left Party	246,905	4.5	16	–5
Green Party	185,051	3.4	0	–20
Other parties	53,487	1.0	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	92,159	–	–	–
Total	5,562,920	100	349	0
Registered voters/turnout	6,413,407	86.7	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

By municipality

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  Votes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes within the coalition that won relative majority.

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  Cartogram of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast.

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  Map showing the voting shifts from the 1988 to the 1991 election. Darker blue indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that formed the centre-right bloc. Darker red indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that form the left-wing bloc.

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  Votes by municipality as a scale from red/Left-wing bloc to blue/Centre-right bloc.

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  Cartogram of vote with each municipality rescaled in proportion to number of valid votes cast. Deeper blue represents a relative majority for the centre-right coalition, brighter red represents a relative majority for the left-wing coalition.