Sweden 1982 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Swedish Social Democratic Party won 166 of 349 seats with 45.6% of the vote; 91.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.7 points on 1979.

Sweden
Held Sunday 19 September 1982

Result

175 for a majority

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	± seats	%	± points	Votes
Swedish Social Democratic Party	166	+12	45.6	+2.4	2,533,250
Moderate Party	86	+13	23.6	+3.3	1,313,337
Centre Party	56	−8	15.5	−2.6	859,618
Liberals	21	−17	5.9	−4.7	327,770
Left Party	20	0	5.5	−0.1	308,899
Christian Democrats	0	0	1.8	+0.4	103,820
Green Party	0		1.7		91,787

± is the change against the Sweden 1979 general election, party by party.

Votes by party

Swedish Social Democratic Party 2,533,250
Moderate Party 1,313,337
Centre Party 859,618
Liberals 327,770
Left Party 308,899
Christian Democrats 103,820
Green Party 91,787

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

91.4% of the 6,130,993 registered voters cast a ballot (5,606,603 ballots), up 0.7 points on 1979. 5,554,394 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Swedish Social Democratic Party45.6% of votes47.6% of seats
Moderate Party23.6% of votes24.6% of seats
Centre Party15.5% of votes16.0% of seats
Liberals5.9% of votes6.0% of seats
Left Party5.5% of votes5.7% of seats

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

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.4 by votes and 3.1 by seats; Swedish Social Democratic Party led Moderate Party by 22.0 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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