1991 Stockholm municipal election
The Stockholm municipal election of 1991 was held on 15 September 1991 concurrently with the 1991 Swedish parliamentary election. This election used a party-list proportional representation system to allocate the 101 seats of the Stockholm City Council (Stockholms stadsfullmäktige) amongst the various Swedish political parties. Voter turnout was 81.6%.
Three political parties gained seats on the Stockholm City Council for the first time as a result of this election. The oldest was the
As a result, a total of nine political parties were represented on the Stockholm City Council after this election, the most at any point as of the 2006 elections.
The Social Democrats were allocated 33 seats as a result of this election, which at the time was their lowest mandate since the introduction of universal male suffrage in 1911.
Results
| Party | Votes | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | + – | # | + – | ||
| Social Democrats Socialdemokraterna (s) |
130,259 | 29.4% | –4.5% | 33 | –3 | |
| Moderate Party Moderata samlingspartiet (m) |
129,253 | 29.2% | +1.7% | 32 | +4 | |
Liberal People's Party Folkpartiet liberalerna (fp) |
44,769 | 10.1% | –2.5% | 12 | –1 | |
| Left Party Vänsterpartiet (v) |
35,650 | 8.0% | –2.1% | 9 | –2 | |
| New Democracy Ny demokrati (nyd) |
21,641 | 4.9% | 6 | +6 | ||
| Stockholm Party Stockholmspartiet (sp) |
18,475 | 4.2% | 3 | -5 | ||
| Green Party Miljöpartiet (mp) |
17,275 | 3.9% | +1.5% | 2 | +2 | |
| Christian Democratic Kristdemokratiska samhällspartiet (kd) |
16,898 | 3.8% | +2.3% | 3 | +3 | |
| Centre Party Centerpartiet (c) |
15,543 | 3.5% | –0.5% | 1 | –4 | |
| Others | 13,154 | 3.0% | ||||
| Total | 442,153 | 100% | — | 101 | ±0 | |
| Invalid ballots | 6,095 | |||||
See also
References
- Statistics Sweden, Allmänna valen 1991. Del 2 – Kommunala valen den 15 September 1991. pp. 267, 500
- Statistics Sweden, "Kommunfullmäktigval – valresultat" (Swedish) [1][permanent dead link]
- Statistics Sweden, "Kommunfullmäktigval – erhållna mandat efter kommun och parti. Valår 1973–2006" (Swedish) [2][permanent dead link]