Sweden 1958 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Swedish Social Democratic Party won 111 of 231 seats with 46.2% of the vote; 77.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.2 points on 1956.

Sweden
Held Sunday 1 June 1958

Result

116 for a majority

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	± seats	%	± points	Votes
Swedish Social Democratic Party	111	+5	46.2	+1.6	1,776,667
Moderate Party	45	+3	19.5	+2.4	750,332
Liberals	38	−20	18.2	−5.6	700,019
Centre Party	32	+13	12.7	+3.2	486,760
Left Party	5	−1	3.4	−1.6	129,319
Left Socialist Party	0	0	0.0	0.0	1,008

± is the change against the Sweden 1956 general election, party by party.

Votes by party

Swedish Social Democratic Party 1,776,667
Moderate Party 750,332
Liberals 700,019
Centre Party 486,760
Left Party 129,319
Left Socialist Party 1,008

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

77.4% of the 4,992,421 registered voters cast a ballot (3,864,963 ballots), down 2.2 points on 1956. 3,844,252 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1948. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Swedish Social Democratic Party46.2% of votes48.1% of seats
Moderate Party19.5% of votes19.5% of seats
Liberals18.2% of votes16.5% of seats
Centre Party12.7% of votes13.9% of seats
Left Party3.4% of votes2.2% of seats

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

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.3 by votes and 3.2 by seats; Swedish Social Democratic Party led Moderate Party by 26.7 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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