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Sweden September 1914 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Swedish Social Democratic Party won 87 of 230 seats with 36.4% of the vote; 66.2% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats%Votes
Moderate Party8636.5267,124
Swedish Social Democratic Party8736.4266,133
Liberals5726.9196,493
Centre Party00.21,507
Votes by party
  • Moderate Party 267,124
  • Swedish Social Democratic Party 266,133
  • Liberals 196,493
  • Centre Party 1,507

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

66.2% of the 1,111,767 registered voters cast a ballot (735,485 ballots). 731,361 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Swedish Social Democratic Party36.4% of votes37.8% of seats
  • Moderate Party36.5% of votes37.4% of seats
  • Liberals26.9% of votes24.8% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.0 by votes and 2.9 by seats; Moderate Party led Swedish Social Democratic Party by 0.1 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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