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Sweden 1991 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Swedish Social Democratic Party won 138 of 349 seats with 37.7% of the vote; 86.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.8 points on 1988.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Swedish Social Democratic Party138−1837.7−5.52,062,761
Moderate Party80+1421.9+3.61,199,404
Liberals33−119.1−3.1499,364
Centre Party31−118.5−2.8465,193
Christian Democrats26+267.1+4.2390,361
New Democracy256.7368,284
Left Party16−54.5−1.3246,911
Green Party0−203.4−2.1185,053

± is the change against the Sweden 1988 general election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Swedish Social Democratic Party 2,062,761
  • Moderate Party 1,199,404
  • Liberals 499,364
  • Centre Party 465,193
  • Christian Democrats 390,361
  • New Democracy 368,284
  • Left Party 246,911
  • Green Party 185,053

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

86.7% of the 6,413,172 registered voters cast a ballot (5,563,043 ballots), up 0.8 points on 1988. 5,470,882 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Swedish Social Democratic Party37.7% of votes39.5% of seats
  • Moderate Party21.9% of votes22.9% of seats
  • Liberals9.1% of votes9.5% of seats
  • Centre Party8.5% of votes8.9% of seats
  • Christian Democrats7.1% of votes7.4% of seats
  • New Democracy6.7% of votes7.2% of seats
  • Left Party4.5% of votes4.6% of seats
  • Green Party3.4% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.6 by votes and 4.2 by seats; Swedish Social Democratic Party led Moderate Party by 15.8 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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