Swedish general election, 1936

20 September 1936

All 230 seats to the Second Chamber of the Riksdag 116 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Per Albin Hansson	Gösta Bagge	Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp
Party	Social Democratic	Electoral League	Farmers' League
Last election	104	58	36
Seats won	112	44	36
Seat change	9	14	0
Popular vote	1,338,120	512,781	418,840
Percentage	45.9%	17.6%	14.4%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Gustaf Andersson	Nils Flyg	Sven Linderot
Party	People's	Socialist	Communist
Last election	24^[1]	6^[2]	2
Seats won	27	6	5
Seat change	3	0	3
Popular vote	376,161	127,832	96,519
Percentage	12.9%	4.4%	3.3%

PM before election

Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp
Farmers' League

Elected PM

Per Albin Hansson
Social Democratic

Party activists handing out ballot papers for their parties outside a polling booth

General elections were held in Sweden on 20 September 1936.^[3] The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 112 of the 230 seats in the Second Chamber of the Riksdag.^[4]

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Swedish Social Democratic Party	1,338,120	45.9	112	+8
General Electoral League	512,781	17.6	44	–14
Farmers' League	418,840	14.4	36	0
People's Party	376,161	12.9	27	+3
Socialist Party	127,832	4.4	6	0
Communist Party of Sweden	96,519	3.3	5	+3
National League of Sweden	26,750	0.9	0	New
National Socialist Workers' Party	17,483	0.6	0	New
Swedish National Socialist Party	3,025	0.1	0	0
Other parties	242	0.0	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	8,023	–	–	–
Total	2,925,776	100	230	0
Registered voters/turnout	3,924,598	74.5	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

↑ Total seats of the Free-minded National Association and Liberal Party of Sweden.
↑ As Kilbommare Communists
↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p1872

Elections and referendums in Sweden

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