Sweden 1973 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Swedish Social Democratic Party won 156 of 350 seats with 43.6% of the vote; 90.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.6 points on 1970.

Sweden
Held Sunday 16 September 1973

Result

176 for a majority

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	± seats	%	± points	Votes
Swedish Social Democratic Party	156	−7	43.6	−1.7	2,247,727
Centre Party	90	+19	25.1	+5.2	1,295,246
Moderate Party	51	+10	14.3	+2.8	737,584
Liberals	34	−24	9.4	−6.8	486,028
Left Party	19	+2	5.3	+0.5	274,929
Christian Democrats	0	0	1.8	0.0	90,388

± is the change against the Sweden 1970 general election, party by party.

Votes by party

Swedish Social Democratic Party 2,247,727
Centre Party 1,295,246
Moderate Party 737,584
Liberals 486,028
Left Party 274,929
Christian Democrats 90,388

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

90.8% of the 5,690,333 registered voters cast a ballot (5,168,996 ballots), up 2.6 points on 1970. 5,160,146 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 Party43.6% of votes44.6% of seats
Centre Party25.1% of votes25.7% of seats
Moderate Party14.3% of votes14.6% of seats
Liberals9.4% of votes9.7% of seats
Left Party5.3% of votes5.4% of seats

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

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.5 by votes and 3.4 by seats; Swedish Social Democratic Party led Centre Party by 18.5 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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