Sweden 1936 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Swedish Social Democratic Party won 112 of 230 seats with 45.9% of the vote; 74.5% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Sweden
Held Sunday 20 September 1936

Result

116 for a majority

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	%	Votes
Swedish Social Democratic Party	112	45.9	1,338,120
Moderate Party	44	17.6	512,781
Centre Party	36	14.4	418,840
Liberals	27	12.9	376,161
Socialist Party	6	4.4	127,832
Left Party	5	3.3	96,519
Largest party without seats	0	0.9	26,750

Votes by party

Swedish Social Democratic Party 1,338,120
Moderate Party 512,781
Centre Party 418,840
Liberals 376,161
Socialist Party 127,832
Left Party 96,519
Largest party without seats 26,750

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

74.5% of the 3,924,598 registered voters cast a ballot (2,925,776 ballots). 2,917,753 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Swedish Social Democratic Party45.9% of votes48.7% of seats
Moderate Party17.6% of votes19.1% of seats
Centre Party14.4% of votes15.7% of seats
Liberals12.9% of votes11.7% of seats
Socialist Party4.4% of votes2.6% of seats
Left Party3.3% of votes2.2% of seats

Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.5 by votes and 3.2 by seats; Swedish Social Democratic Party led Moderate Party by 28.3 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal

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