Swedish general election, 1932

Swedish general election, 1932
Sweden
17 September 1932

All 230 seats in the Riksdag
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Per Albin Hansson Arvid Lindman Olof Olsson
Party Social Democratic Electoral League Farmers' League
Last election 90 73 27
Seats won 104 58 36
Seat change Increase14 Decrease15 Increase9
Popular vote 1,040,689 585,248 351,215
Percentage 41.7% 23.5% 14.1%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Carl Gustaf Ekman Nils Flyg Eliel Löfgren
Party Free-minded National Kilbommare Communist Liberal
Last election 28 new 4
Seats won 20 6 4
Seat change Decrease8 Increase6 Steady0
Popular vote 244,577 132,564 48,722
Percentage 9.8% 5.3% 2.0%

  Seventh party
 
Leader Sven Linderot
Party Communist
Last election 8
Seats won 2
Seat change Decrease6
Popular vote 74,245
Percentage 3.0%

Prime Minister before election

Felix Hamrin
Free-minded National

PM-elect

Per Albin Hansson
Social Democratic

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General elections were held in Sweden on 17 and 18 September 1932.[1] The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 104 of the 230 seats in the Second Chamber of the Riksdag.[2] The party returned to government after six years in opposition, marking the beginning of 44 years of near-uninterrupted rule (the only exception was three months in 1936).

Results

Party Votes % Seats +/–
Swedish Social Democratic Party1,040,68941.7104+14
General Electoral League585,24823.55815
Farmers' League351,21514.136+9
Free-minded National Association244,5779.820–8
Communist Party of Sweden (Kilbommare)132,5645.36New
Communist Party of Sweden (Sillénare)74,2453.02–6
Liberal Party of Sweden48,7222.040
Swedish National Socialist Party15,1700.60New
Other parties2,6760.100
Invalid/blank votes6,060
Total2,501,1661002300
Registered voters/turnout3,698,93567.6
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

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