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Sweden April 1914 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Moderate Party won 86 of 230 seats with 37.7% of the vote; 69.9% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats%Votes
Moderate Party8637.7286,250
Liberals7132.2245,107
Swedish Social Democratic Party7330.1228,712
Votes by party
  • Moderate Party 286,250
  • Liberals 245,107
  • Swedish Social Democratic Party 228,712

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.

ParlGov marks results before 1945 as experimental: they may need revision, so we compare them with no other election.

Share of the vote

Turnout

69.9% of the 1,092,454 registered voters cast a ballot (763,423 ballots). 760,194 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Moderate Party37.7% of votes37.4% of seats
  • Swedish Social Democratic Party30.1% of votes31.7% of seats
  • Liberals32.2% of votes30.9% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.0 by votes and 3.0 by seats; Moderate Party led Liberals by 5.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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