Swedish general election, 1960

September 18, 1960

All 232 seats to the Second Chamber of the Riksdag 117 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Tage Erlander	Bertil Ohlin	Jarl Hjalmarson
Party	Social Democratic	People's	Rightist
Last election	111	38	45
Seats won	114	40	39
Seat change	3	2	6
Popular vote	2,033,016	744,142	704,365
Percentage	47.8%	17.5%	16.6%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Gunnar Hedlund	Hilding Hagberg
Party	Centre	Communist
Last election	32	5
Seats won	34	5
Seat change	1	0
Popular vote	579,007	190,560
Percentage	13.6%	4.5%

PM before election

Tage Erlander
Social Democratic

Elected PM

Tage Erlander
Social Democratic

General elections were held in Sweden on 18 September 1960.^[1] The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 114 of the 232 seats in the Second Chamber of the Riksdag.^[2]

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Swedish Social Democratic Party	2,033,016	47.8	114	+3
People's Party	744,142	17.5	40	+2
Rightist Party	704,365	16.6	39	–6
Centre Party	579,007	13.6	34	+2
Communist Party of Sweden	190,560	4.5	5	0
Other parties	3,024	0.0	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	17,496	–	–	–
Total	4,271,610	100	232	+1
Registered voters/turnout	4,972,177	85.9	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

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

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