1976 Swedish general election

General elections were held in Sweden on 19 September 1976.[1] Although the Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 152 of the 349 seats in the Riksdag,[2] a coalition government was formed with the Centre Party, the People's Party and the conservative Moderate Party (who won a combined 180 seats), which formed Sweden's first non-socialist government since 1936. Centre Party leader Thorbjörn Fälldin, who had widely been expected to take over the government in the previous election of 1973 (which turned out to bring a 175-175 draw between the left and right blocs), was appointed Prime Minister, the first not from the Swedish Social Democratic Party since Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp's brief interregnum 40 years earlier.

1976 Swedish general election
19 September 1976
All 349 seats to the Riksdag
175 seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Olof Palme Thorbjörn Fälldin Gösta Bohman
Party Social Democratic Centre Moderate
Last election 156 90 51
Seats won 152 86 55
Seat change 4 4 4
Popular vote 2,324,603 1,309,669 847,672
Percentage 42.8% 24.1% 15.6%
Swing 0.8% 1.0% 1.3%
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Per Ahlmark Lars Werner
Party People's Left-Communist
Last election 34 19
Seats won 39 17
Seat change 5 2
Popular vote 601,556 258,432
Percentage 11.1% 4.8%
Swing 1.6% 0.6%
PM before election

Olof Palme
Social Democratic

 Elected PM

Thorbjörn Fälldin
Centre

Results
Main article: Results of the 1976 Swedish general election
Party Votes % Seats +/–
Swedish Social Democratic Party2,324,60342.7152–4
Centre Party1,309,66924.186–4
Moderate Party847,67215.655+4
People's Party601,55611.139+5
Left Party Communists258,4324.817–2
Christian Democratic Unity73,8441.400
Communist Party of Sweden17,3090.300
Other parties4,6630.100
Invalid/blank votes19,295–––
Total5,457,043100349–1
Registered voters/turnout5,947,07791.8––
Source: Nohlen & Stöver
Popular vote
S
 
 42.75%
C
 
 24.08%
M
 
 15.59%
FP
 
 11.06%
VPK
 
 4.75%
KD
 
 1.36%
Others
 
 0.41%
Parliament seats
S
 
 43.55%
C
 
 24.64%
M
 
 15.76%
FP
 
 11.17%
VPK
 
 4.87%

By municipality
  • Votes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes within the coalition that won relative majority.
  • Cartogram of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast.
  • Map showing the voting shifts from the 1973 to the 1976 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.
  • Votes by municipality as a scale from red/Left-wing bloc to blue/Centre-right bloc.
  • 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.

References
  1. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1873
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