Sweden 1960 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Swedish Social Democratic Party won 114 of 232 seats with 47.8% of the vote; 85.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 8.5 points on 1958.

Sweden
Held Sunday 18 September 1960

Result

117 for a majority

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	± seats	%	± points	Votes
Swedish Social Democratic Party	114	+3	47.8	+1.6	2,033,016
Liberals	40	+2	17.5	−0.7	744,142
Moderate Party	39	−6	16.6	−2.9	704,365
Centre Party	34	+2	13.6	+0.9	579,007
Left Party	5	0	4.5	+1.1	190,560
Largest party without seats	0		0.0		1,375

± is the change against the Sweden 1958 general election, party by party.

Votes by party

Swedish Social Democratic Party 2,033,016
Liberals 744,142
Moderate Party 704,365
Centre Party 579,007
Left Party 190,560
Largest party without seats 1,375

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

85.9% of the 4,972,177 registered voters cast a ballot (4,271,610 ballots), up 8.5 points on 1958. 4,254,114 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1948. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Swedish Social Democratic Party47.8% of votes49.1% of seats
Liberals17.5% of votes17.2% of seats
Moderate Party16.6% of votes16.8% of seats
Centre Party13.6% of votes14.7% of seats
Left Party4.5% of votes2.2% of seats

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

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.3 by votes and 3.1 by seats; Swedish Social Democratic Party led Liberals by 30.3 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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