Swedish general election, 1988

18 September 1988

All 349 seats to the Riksdag 175 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Ingvar Carlsson	Carl Bildt	Bengt Westerberg
Party	Social Democratic	Moderate	People's
Last election	159	76	51
Seats won	156	66	44
Seat change	3	10	7
Popular vote	2,321,826	983,226	655,720
Percentage	43.2%	18.3%	12.2%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Olof Johansson	Lars Werner	Eva Goës Birger Schlaug
Party	Centre	Left-Communist	Green
Last election	42	19	0
Seats won	44	21	20
Seat change	0	2	20
Popular vote	607,240	314,031	296,935
Percentage	11.3%	5.8%	5.5%

PM before election

Ingvar Carlsson
Social Democratic

Elected PM

Ingvar Carlsson
Social Democratic

General elections were held in Sweden on 18 September 1988.^[1] The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in the Riksdag, winning 156 of the 349 seats.^[2]

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Swedish Social Democratic Party	2,321,826	43.2	156	–3
Moderate Party	983,226	18.3	66	–10
People's Party	655,720	12.2	44	–7
Centre Party	607,240	11.3	42	(–1)
Left Party Communists	314,031	5.8	21	+2
Green Party	296,935	5.5	20	+20
Christian Democratic Society Party	158,182	2.9	0	(–1)
Other parties	36,559	0.7	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	67,331	–	–	–
Total	5,441,050	100	349	0
Registered voters/turnout	6,330,023	86.0	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

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 1985 to the 1988 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.

↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p1873

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