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1956 Swedish general election

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1956 Swedish general election

← 1952 16 September 1956 1958 →

All 231 seats to the Second Chamber of the Riksdag
116 seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Tage Erlander Bertil Ohlin Jarl Hjalmarson
Party Social Democrats Liberals Moderate
Last election 110 58 31
Seats won 106 58 42
Seat change Decrease4 Steady0 Increase11
Popular vote 1,729,463 923,564 663 693
Percentage 44.6% 23.8% 17.1%

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Gunnar Hedlund Hilding Hagberg
Party Centre Communist
Last election 26 5
Seats won 19 6
Seat change Decrease7 Increase1
Popular vote 366,612 194,016
Percentage 9.5% 5.0%

PM before election

Tage Erlander
Social Democrats

Elected PM

Tage Erlander
Social Democrats

General elections were held in Sweden on 16 September 1956.[1][2] The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 106 of the 231 seats in the Second Chamber of the Riksdag.[3] A Social Democratic-Farmers' League coalition government was formed by Prime Minister Tage Erlander after the election with 125 of the total of 231 seats. Although the non-socialist parties held a majority in the Second Chamber, the Social Democrats held a majority in the First Chamber, so a non-socialist government could not be formed. The Social Democrats and the Farmers' League would later split due to disagreements over the pensions system in 1957, leading to the formation of Tage Erlander's third government and a snap election in 1958.

Results

Party Votes % Seats +/–
Swedish Social Democratic Party 1,729,463 44.6 106 –4
People's Party 923,564 23.8 58 0
Right Party 663,693 17.1 42 +11
Farmers' League 366,612 9.5 19 –7
Communist Party of Sweden 194,016 5.0 6 +1
Other parties 1,982 0.1 0 0
Invalid/blank votes 22,784
Total 3,902,114 100 231 +1
Registered voters/turnout 4,887,325 79.8
Source: Nohlen & Stöver
Popular vote
S
44.58%
FP
23.81%
H
17.11%
B
9.45%
SKP
5.00%
Others
0.05%
Parliament seats
S
45.89%
FP
25.11%
H
18.18%
B
8.23%
SKP
2.60%

References

  1. ^ "Riksdagsmannavalen åren 1953-1956 - Valstatistik-Riksdagsmannavalen-1953-1954-1955-1956.pdf" (PDF) (in Swedish). Statistiska Centralbyrån. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  2. ^ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  3. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1872