1952 Swedish general election

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1952 Swedish general election
Flag of Sweden.svg
  1948 21 September 1952 1956  

All 230 seats in the Andra kammaren of the Riksdag
116 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
  Tage Erlander 1952.jpg Bertil Ohlin.jpg Hjalmarson (2).JPG
Leader Tage Erlander Bertil Ohlin Jarl Hjalmarson
Party Social Democrats People's Party Right Party
Last election1125723
Seats won1105831
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 2Increase2.svg 1Increase2.svg 8
Popular vote1,742,284924,819543,825
Percentage46.05%24.44%14.37%

 Fourth partyFifth party
  Gunnar Hedlund 1951.jpg Hilding Hagberg-2.jpg
Leader Gunnar Hedlund Hilding Hagberg
Party Farmers' League Communist
Last election308
Seats won265
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 4Decrease2.svg 3
Popular vote406,183164,194
Percentage10.74%4.34%

Riksdagsvalet 1952.svg
Largest bloc and seats won by constituency

Prime Minister before election

Tage Erlander
Social Democrats

Elected Prime Minister

Tage Erlander
Social Democrats

General elections were held in Sweden on 21 September 1952. [1] The Social Democrats remained the largest party with 110 of the 230 seats in the Andra kammaren of the Riksdag and together with the Communist Party of Sweden they got 115 seats and the other parties 115 seats. [2] Tage Erlander and his Social Democratic Party did however form his second government with the Farmers' League already in 1951 and together with that party the Social Democrats now had a majority of 136 seats in the chamber and together with the Communists 141 seats. In the other indirectly elected chamber the Social Democrats had an absolute majority.

The Catalina affair had taken place a few months prior to the election and was highly debated during the time.

Results

Sweden Riksdag 1952.svg
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Swedish Social Democratic Party 1,742,28446.05110–2
People's Party 924,81924.4458+1
Right Party 543,82514.3731+8
Farmers' League 406,18310.7426–4
Communist Party 164,1944.345–3
Left Socialist Party 2,3020.0600
Other parties1000.0000
Total3,783,707100.002300
Valid votes3,783,70799.54
Invalid/blank votes17,5770.46
Total votes3,801,284100.00
Registered voters/turnout4,805,21679.11
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

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References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1872