1976 Swedish general election

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1976 Swedish general election

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All 349 seats in the Riksdag
175 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Olof Palme Thorbjörn Fälldin Gösta Bohman
Party Social Democrats Centre Moderate
Last election 156 90 51
Seats won 152 86 55
Seat change Decrease4 Decrease4 Increase4
Popular vote 2,324,603 1,309,669 847,672
Percentage 42.75% 24.08% 15.59%
Swing Decrease0.81pp Decrease1.02pp Increase1.30pp

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Per Ahlmark Lars Werner
Party People's Party Left Communists
Last election 34 19
Seats won 39 17
Seat change Increase5 Decrease2
Popular vote 601,556 258,432
Percentage 11.06% 4.75%
Swing Increase1.64pp Decrease0.58pp

Map of the election, showing the distribution of constituency and levelling seats, as well as the largest political bloc within each constituency.

PM before election

Olof Palme
Social Democrats

Elected PM

Thorbjörn Fälldin
Centre

General elections were held in

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
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

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Swedish Social Democratic Party2,324,60342.75152–4
Centre Party1,309,66924.0886–4
Moderate Party847,67215.5955+4
People's Party601,55611.0639+5
Left Party Communists258,4324.7517–2
Christian Democratic Unity73,8441.3600
Communist Party17,3090.3200
Other parties4,6630.0900
Total5,437,748100.00349–1
Valid votes5,437,74899.65
Invalid/blank votes19,2950.35
Total votes5,457,043100.00
Registered voters/turnout5,947,07791.76
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

  • Votes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes within the coalition that won relative majority. Some municipalities have been split since 1976, so may be different to apparent results.
    Votes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes within the coalition that won relative majority. Some municipalities have been split since 1976, so may be different to apparent results.
  • Cartogram of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast.
    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 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.
    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.
  • Votes by municipality as a scale from red/Left-wing bloc to blue/Centre-right 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.
    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

  1. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1873
  2. ^ Valet 1976 - Duellen - Olof Palme (S) och Thorbjörn Fälldin (C), retrieved 2024-02-01
  3. ^ Sweden, Sveriges Television AB, Stockholm, Slutdebatter – Partiledardebatt (in Swedish), retrieved 2024-01-29{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)