Sweden 1976 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Swedish Social Democratic Party won 152 of 349 seats with 42.7% of the vote; 91.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.9 points on 1973.

Sweden
Held Sunday 19 September 1976

Result

175 for a majority

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	± seats	%	± points	Votes
Swedish Social Democratic Party	152	−4	42.7	−0.9	2,324,603
Centre Party	86	−4	24.1	−1.0	1,309,669
Moderate Party	55	+4	15.6	+1.3	847,672
Liberals	39	+5	11.1	+1.7	601,556
Left Party	17	−2	4.7	−0.6	258,432
Christian Democrats	0	0	1.4	−0.4	73,844

± is the change against the Sweden 1973 general election, party by party.

Votes by party

Swedish Social Democratic Party 2,324,603
Centre Party 1,309,669
Moderate Party 847,672
Liberals 601,556
Left Party 258,432
Christian Democrats 73,844

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

91.8% of the 5,947,077 registered voters cast a ballot (5,457,043 ballots), up 0.9 points on 1973. 5,437,748 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 Party42.7% of votes43.6% of seats
Centre Party24.1% of votes24.6% of seats
Moderate Party15.6% of votes15.8% of seats
Liberals11.1% of votes11.2% of seats
Left Party4.7% of votes4.9% of seats

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

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.6 by votes and 3.4 by seats; Swedish Social Democratic Party led Centre Party by 18.6 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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