1976 Swedish general election

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 4 4 4 Popular vote 2,324,603 1,309,669 847,672 Percentage 42.75% 24.08% 15.59% Swing 0.81pp 1.02pp 1.30pp   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 5 2 Popular vote 601,556 258,432 Percentage 11.06% 4.75% Swing 1.64pp 0.58pp
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 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.