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Sweden 1920 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Swedish Social Democratic Party won 75 of 228 seats with 29.6% of the vote; 55.3% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats%Votes
Swedish Social Democratic Party7529.6195,121
Moderate Party7027.8183,019
Liberals4721.8143,355
Centre Party197.952,318
Left Party76.442,056
National Agrarian Union106.240,623
Votes by party
  • Swedish Social Democratic Party 195,121
  • Moderate Party 183,019
  • Liberals 143,355
  • Centre Party 52,318
  • Left Party 42,056
  • National Agrarian Union 40,623

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

55.3% of the 1,192,922 registered voters cast a ballot (660,193 ballots). 658,183 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Swedish Social Democratic Party29.6% of votes32.9% of seats
  • Moderate Party27.8% of votes30.7% of seats
  • Liberals21.8% of votes20.6% of seats
  • Centre Party7.9% of votes8.3% of seats
  • National Agrarian Union6.2% of votes4.4% of seats
  • Left Party6.4% of votes3.1% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.4 by votes and 3.9 by seats; Swedish Social Democratic Party led Moderate Party by 1.8 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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