Sweden 1956 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Swedish Social Democratic Party won 106 of 231 seats with 44.6% of the vote; 79.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.5 points on 1952.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swedish Social Democratic Party | 106 | −4 | 44.6 | −1.4 | 1,729,463 |
| Liberals | 58 | 0 | 23.8 | −0.6 | 923,564 |
| Moderate Party | 42 | +11 | 17.1 | +2.7 | 663,693 |
| Centre Party | 19 | −7 | 9.5 | −1.2 | 366,612 |
| Left Party | 6 | +1 | 5.0 | +0.7 | 194,016 |
| Left Socialist Party | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | −0.1 | 1,252 |
± is the change against the Sweden 1952 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Swedish Social Democratic Party 1,729,463
- Liberals 923,564
- Moderate Party 663,693
- Centre Party 366,612
- Left Party 194,016
- Left Socialist Party 1,252
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.
Share of the vote
Turnout
79.6% of the 4,902,114 registered voters cast a ballot (3,902,114 ballots), up 0.5 points on 1952. 3,879,330 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Swedish Social Democratic Party44.6% of votes45.9% of seats
- Liberals23.8% of votes25.1% of seats
- Moderate Party17.1% of votes18.2% of seats
- Centre Party9.5% of votes8.2% of seats
- Left Party5.0% of votes2.6% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.4 by votes and 3.2 by seats; Swedish Social Democratic Party led Liberals by 20.8 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
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
Our text and compilation: CC BY 4.0. How to reuse and cite this page.