1982 Swedish general election

General elections were held in Sweden on 19 September 1982.[1] They saw the return of the Swedish Social Democratic Party to power after six years in opposition, the longest period in opposition by the Social Democrats since the 1910s. The center-right coalition of Thorbjörn Fälldin had earlier suffered a loss upon the breakup of the government in 1981, the year before the election, when the rightist Moderate Party chose to withdraw from the government, protesting against the centrist tax policies of the Fälldin government. After regaining power, socialist leader Olof Palme succeeded in being elected Prime Minister again, having earlier held power between 1969 and 1976.

1982 Swedish general election
19 September 1982
All 349 seats to the Riksdag
175 seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Olof Palme Ulf Adelsohn Thorbjörn Fälldin
Party Social Democratic Moderate Centre
Last election 154 73 64
Seats won 166 86 56
Seat change 12 13 8
Popular vote 2,533,250 1,313,337 859,618
Percentage 45.6% 23.6% 15.5%
Swing 2.4% 3.3% 2.6%
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Ola Ullsten Lars Werner
Party People's Left-Communist
Last election 38 20
Seats won 21 20
Seat change 17 0
Popular vote 327 770 308,899
Percentage 5.9% 5.6%
Swing 4.7% 0%
PM before election

Thorbjörn Fälldin
Centre

 Elected PM

Olof Palme
Social Democratic

The 2,533,250 votes for the Social Democrats is, in spite of a larger electorate, as of 2018 the highest number of people voting for a single party in Swedish electoral history, although the party had previously recorded higher percentage shares.

Results
Main article: Results of the 1982 Swedish general election

There were 5,594,594 valid ballots cast.[2]

Party Votes % Seats +/–
Swedish Social Democratic Party2,533,25045.6166+12
Moderate Party1,313,33723.686+13
Centre Party859,61815.556−8
People's Party327,7705.921−17
Left Party Communists308,8995.6200
Christian Democratic Unity103,8201.900
Green Party91,7871.70New
Workers Party Communists5,7450.100
Other parties10,3760.200
Invalid/blank votes52,001–––
Total5,606,6031003490
Registered voters/turnout6,130,99391.4––
Source: Nohlen & Stöver
Popular vote
S
 
 45.61%
M
 
 23.64%
C
 
 15.48%
FP
 
 5.90%
VPK
 
 5.56%
KD
 
 1.87%
MP
 
 1.65%
Others
 
 0.29%
Parliament seats
S
 
 47.56%
M
 
 24.64%
C
 
 16.05%
FP
 
 6.02%
VPK
 
 5.73%

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 1979 to the 1982 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. "Allmänna valen 1982. Del 1, Riksdagsvalet" (PDF) (in Swedish). Statistical Central Bureau. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
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