1982 Swedish general election
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All 349 seats in the Riksdag 175 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
tax policies of the Fälldin government. After regaining power, Social Democratic leader Olof Palme
succeeded in being elected Prime Minister again, having earlier held power between 1969 and 1976.
The 2,533,250 votes for the Social Democrats is, in spite of a larger electorate, as of 2022 the highest number of people voting for a single party in Swedish electoral history, although the party had previously recorded higher percentage shares.
Debates
1982 Swedish general election debates | |||||||||
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Date | Time | Organizers | Moderators | P Present I Invitee N Non-invitee | |||||
S | M | C | L | V | Refs | ||||
Sveriges Television | Lars Orup [sv] | P Olof Palme, Kjell-Olof Feldt |
P Ulf Adelsohn |
P Thorbjörn Fälldin |
P Ola Ullsten |
P Lars Werner |
[3] |
Results
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
Swedish Social Democratic Party | 2,533,250 | 45.61 | 166 | +12 | |
Moderate Party | 1,313,337 | 23.64 | 86 | +13 | |
Centre Party | 859,618 | 15.48 | 56 | −8 | |
People's Party | 327,770 | 5.90 | 21 | −17 | |
Left Party Communists | 308,899 | 5.56 | 20 | 0 | |
Christian Democratic Unity | 103,820 | 1.87 | 0 | 0 | |
Green Party | 91,787 | 1.65 | 0 | New | |
Workers Party Communists | 5,745 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | |
Other parties | 10,376 | 0.19 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 5,554,602 | 100.00 | 349 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 5,554,602 | 99.07 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 52,001 | 0.93 | |||
Total votes | 5,606,603 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 6,130,993 | 91.45 | |||
Source: Nohlen & Stöver |
Seat distribution
Constituency | Total seats |
Seats won | |||||||
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By party | By coalition | ||||||||
S | M | C | F | V | Left | Right | |||
Älvsborg North
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10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | ||
Älvsborg South
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7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
Blekinge | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | |||
Bohus
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10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | ||
Fyrstadskretsen | 19 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 9 | |
Gävleborg | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | ||
Gothenburg | 18 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | |
Gotland | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Halland | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | ||
Jämtland | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |||
Jönköping | 13 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 7 | ||
Kalmar | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | |||
Kopparberg
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12 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | ||
Kristianstad | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | ||
Kronoberg | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
Malmöhus | 13 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | ||
Norrbotten | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | ||
Örebro | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | |
Östergötland | 17 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 8 | |
Skaraborg
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12 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | ||
Södermanland | 11 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | ||
Stockholm County | 34 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 17 | |
Stockholm Municipality | 31 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 15 | |
Uppsala | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | |
Värmland
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13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | |
Västerbotten | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | |
Västernorrland | 13 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | ||
Västmanland | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | |
Total | 349 | 166 | 86 | 56 | 21 | 20 | 186 | 163 | |
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 1979 to the 1982 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
- ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ISSN 0261-3794.
- ^ Slutdebatter – Partiledardebatt (in Swedish), Sweden Sveriges Television AB, Stockholm, retrieved 29 January 2024