Sweden 1964 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Swedish Social Democratic Party won 113 of 233 seats with 47.3% of the vote; 83.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.0 points on 1960.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swedish Social Democratic Party | 113 | −1 | 47.3 | −0.5 | 2,006,923 |
| Liberals | 42 | +2 | 17.0 | −0.5 | 720,733 |
| Moderate Party | 32 | −7 | 13.7 | −2.9 | 582,609 |
| Centre Party | 33 | −1 | 13.2 | −0.4 | 559,632 |
| Left Party | 8 | +3 | 5.2 | +0.7 | 221,746 |
| Christian Democrats | 0 | 1.8 | 75,389 | ||
| Citizens' Coalition | 3 | 1.5 | 64,807 | ||
| Middle Parties | 2 | 0.3 | 13,557 |
± is the change against the Sweden 1960 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Swedish Social Democratic Party 2,006,923
- Liberals 720,733
- Moderate Party 582,609
- Centre Party 559,632
- Left Party 221,746
- Christian Democrats 75,389
- Citizens' Coalition 64,807
- Middle Parties 13,557
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
83.9% of the 5,095,850 registered voters cast a ballot (4,273,595 ballots), down 2.0 points on 1960. 4,245,780 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Swedish Social Democratic Party47.3% of votes48.5% of seats
- Liberals17.0% of votes18.0% of seats
- Centre Party13.2% of votes14.2% of seats
- Moderate Party13.7% of votes13.7% of seats
- Left Party5.2% of votes3.4% of seats
- Citizens' Coalition1.5% of votes1.3% of seats
- Middle Parties0.3% of votes0.9% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.3 (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 30.3 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
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