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Sweden 1994 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Swedish Social Democratic Party won 161 of 349 seats with 45.3% of the vote; 86.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.1 points on 1991.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Swedish Social Democratic Party161+2345.3+7.62,513,905
Moderate Party80022.4+0.51,243,253
Centre Party27−47.7−0.8425,153
Liberals26−77.2−1.9399,556
Left Party22+66.2+1.7342,988
Green Party18+185.0+1.6279,042
Christian Democrats15−114.1−3.0225,974
New Democracy0−251.2−5.568,663

± is the change against the Sweden 1991 general election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Swedish Social Democratic Party 2,513,905
  • Moderate Party 1,243,253
  • Centre Party 425,153
  • Liberals 399,556
  • Left Party 342,988
  • Green Party 279,042
  • Christian Democrats 225,974
  • New Democracy 68,663

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

86.8% of the 6,496,120 registered voters cast a ballot (5,640,393 ballots), up 0.1 points on 1991. 5,555,540 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1985 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Swedish Social Democratic Party45.3% of votes46.1% of seats
  • Moderate Party22.4% of votes22.9% of seats
  • Centre Party7.7% of votes7.7% of seats
  • Liberals7.2% of votes7.4% of seats
  • Left Party6.2% of votes6.3% of seats
  • Green Party5.0% of votes5.2% of seats
  • Christian Democrats4.1% of votes4.3% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.6 by votes and 3.5 by seats; Swedish Social Democratic Party led Moderate Party by 22.9 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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