1932 Swedish general election

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1932 Swedish general election

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All 230 seats in the Riksdag
  First party Second party Third party
  Per Albin Hansson - Sveriges styresmän.jpg Arvid Lindman.jpg
Leader Per Albin Hansson Arvid Lindman Olof Olsson
Party Social Democratic Electoral League Centre
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
  Carl Gustaf Ekman.jpg Nils Flyg.jpg Eliel Löfgren 1929.JPG
Leader Carl Gustaf Ekman Nils Flyg Eliel Löfgren
Party Liberals Kilbommare Communist Liberals
Last election 28 4
Seats won 20 6 4
Seat change Decrease8 New Steady0
Popular vote 244,577 132,564 48,722
Percentage 9.8% 5.3% 2.0%

  Seventh party
  Sven Linderot.jpg
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
Liberals

PM-elect

Per Albin Hansson
Social Democratic

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). This was also the first time the socialist parties received an overall majority of the elected parties' popular vote, although the Hansson cabinet still required cross-aisle co-operation to govern since the centre-right parties won 118 out of 230 seats.

Results[]

Sweden Riksdag 1932.svg
Party Votes % Seats +/–
Social Democratic Party 1,040,689 41.7 104 +14
General Electoral League 585,248 23.5 58 –15
Farmers' League 351,215 14.1 36 +9
Free-minded National Association 244,577 9.8 20 –8
Communist Party (Kilbommare) 132,564 5.3 6 New
Communist Party (Sillénare) 74,245 3.0 2 –6
Liberal Party 48,722 2.0 4 0
Swedish National Socialist Party 15,170 0.6 0 New
Other parties 2,676 0.1 0 0
Invalid/blank votes 6,060
Total 2,501,166 100 230 0
Registered voters/turnout 3,698,935 67.6
Source: Nohlen & Stöver
Popular vote
S
41.71%
AV
23.10%
B
14.08%
FL
9.80%
SKP (non-Comintern)
5.31%
SKP (Comintern)
2.98%
LP
1.95%
Others
1.07%
Parliament seats
S
45.22%
AV
25.22%
B
15.65%
FL
8.70%
SKP (non-Comintern)
2.61%
LP
1.74%
SKP (Comintern)
0.87%

Clerical People's Party, albeit a separate party, received 8,911 votes or 0.4% of the vote share, but had the votes re-assigned to the General Electoral League as a result of them forfeiting their votes out of tactical purposes and were listed as Electoral League or "Rightist" votes in the official final results.[3] No Clerical People's Party member got elected to the Riksdag, which meant the Electoral League covered the entire rightist delegation.[3] Therefore the General Electoral League may correctly be attributed to both 23.1% and 23.5% of the overall vote share.

References[]

  1. ^ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1872
  3. ^ a b "Riksdagsmannavalen åren 1929-1932 av Statistiska centralbyrån - Valstatistik-Riksdagsmannavalen 1929-1930-1931-1932.pdf" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
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