1976 Swedish general election
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 Map of the election, showing the distribution of constituency and levelling seats, as well as the largest political bloc within each constituency. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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General elections were held in Sweden on 19 September 1976.[1] Although the Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 152 of the 349 seats in the Riksdag,[2] a coalition government was formed with the Centre Party, the People's Party and the conservative Moderate Party (who won a combined 180 seats), which formed Sweden's first non-socialist government since 1936. Centre Party leader Thorbjörn Fälldin, who had widely been expected to take over the government in the previous election of 1973 (which turned out to bring a 175-175 draw between the left and right blocs), was appointed Prime Minister, the first not from the Swedish Social Democratic Party since Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp's brief interregnum 40 years earlier.
Debates
| 1976 Swedish general election debates | |||||||||
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| Date | Time | Organisers | Moderators | P Present I Invitee N Non-invitee | |||||
| S | C | M | L | V | Refs | ||||
| 1 September 1976 | P Olof Palme |
P Thorbjörn Fälldin |
N Gösta Bohman |
N Per Ahlmark |
N Lars Werner |
[3] | |||
| Sveriges Television | Lars Orup [sv] | P Olof Palme,Gunnar Sträng |
P Thorbjörn Fälldin |
P Gösta Bohman |
P Per Ahlmark |
P Lars Werner |
[4] | ||
Results
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Swedish Social Democratic Party | 2,324,603 | 42.75 | 152 | –4 | |
| Centre Party | 1,309,669 | 24.08 | 86 | –4 | |
| Moderate Party | 847,672 | 15.59 | 55 | +4 | |
| People's Party | 601,556 | 11.06 | 39 | +5 | |
| Left Party Communists | 258,432 | 4.75 | 17 | –2 | |
| Christian Democratic Unity | 73,844 | 1.36 | 0 | 0 | |
| Communist Party | 17,309 | 0.32 | 0 | 0 | |
| Other parties | 4,663 | 0.09 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 5,437,748 | 100.00 | 349 | –1 | |
| Valid votes | 5,437,748 | 99.65 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 19,295 | 0.35 | |||
| Total votes | 5,457,043 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 5,947,077 | 91.76 | |||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver | |||||
Seat distribution
| Constituency | Total seats |
Seats won | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| By party | By coalition | ||||||||
| S | C | M | F | V | Right | Left | |||
| Älvsborg North | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Älvsborg South | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | ||
| Blekinge | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | ||
| Bohus | 11 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | ||
| Fyrstadskretsen | 19 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 10 | |
| Gävleborg | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | |
| Gothenburg | 19 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 9 | |
| Gotland | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Halland | 9 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | ||
| Jämtland | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Jönköping | 13 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | ||
| Kalmar | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | ||
| Kopparberg | 13 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | |
| Kristianstad | 12 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | ||
| Kronoberg | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | |||
| Malmöhus | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | ||
| Norrbotten | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | |
| Örebro | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | ||
| Östergötland | 18 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 9 | |
| Skaraborg | 11 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | ||
| Södermanland | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||
| Stockholm County | 33 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 15 | |
| Stockholm Municipality | 32 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 16 | |
| Uppsala | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | |
| Värmland | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | ||
| Västerbotten | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Västernorrland | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | ||
| Västmanland | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||
| Total | 349 | 152 | 86 | 55 | 39 | 17 | 180 | 169 | |
| Source: Statistics Sweden | |||||||||
By municipality
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Votes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes within the coalition that won relative majority.
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Cartogram of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast.
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Map showing the voting shifts from the 1973 to the 1976 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.
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Votes by municipality as a scale from red/Left-wing bloc to blue/Centre-right bloc.
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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.
References
- ^ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1873
- ^ Valet 1976 - Duellen - Olof Palme (S) och Thorbjörn Fälldin (C), retrieved 2024-02-01
- ^ Sweden, Sveriges Television AB, Stockholm, Slutdebatter – Partiledardebatt (in Swedish), retrieved 2024-01-29
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