1932 Swedish general election

1932 Swedish general election

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All 230 seats in the Andra kammaren of the Riksdag
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Per Albin Hansson Arvid Lindman Olof Olsson
Party Social Democrats Electoral League Farmers' League
Last election 90 73 27
Seats won 104 58 36
Seat change Increase14 Decrease15 Increase9
Popular vote 1,040,689 585,248 351,215
Percentage 41.71% 23.46% 14.08%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Carl Gustaf Ekman Nils Flyg Eliel Löfgren
Party Free-minded Communist (Kilbommare) Liberals
Last election 28 4
Seats won 20 6 4
Seat change Decrease8 New Steady
Popular vote 244,577 132,564 48,722
Percentage 9.80% 5.31% 1.95%

  Seventh party
 
Leader Sven Linderot
Party Communist (Sillénare)
Last election 8
Seats won 2
Seat change Decrease6
Popular vote 74,245
Percentage 2.98%

Largest bloc and seats won by constituency

Prime Minister before election

Felix Hamrin
Free-minded

PM-elect

Per Albin Hansson
Social Democrats

General elections were held in Sweden on 17 and 18 September 1932.[1] The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 104 of the 230 seats in the Andra kammaren of the Riksdag.[2] The party returned to government after six years in opposition, marking the beginning of 44 years of near-uninterrupted rule (the only exception was three months in 1936). This was also the first time the socialist parties received an overall majority of the elected parties' popular vote, although the Hansson cabinet still required cross-aisle co-operation to govern since the centre-right parties won 118 out of 230 seats.

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1872