Swedish general election, 1970

Swedish general election, 1970

20 September 1970

All 350 seats to the Riksdag 176 seats were needed for a majority   First party Second party Third party   Leader Olof Palme Gunnar Hedlund Gunnar Helén Party Social Democratic Centre People's Last election 125 39 34 Seats won 163 71 58 Seat change 38 32 24 Popular vote 2,256,369 991,208 806,667 Percentage 45.3% 19.9% 16.2%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Yngve Holmberg C.-H. Hermansson Party Moderate Left-Communist Last election 32 3 Seats won 41 17 Seat change 9 14 Popular vote 573,812 236,659 Percentage 11.5% 4.8%

PM before election Olof Palme Social Democratic Elected PM Olof Palme Social Democratic

General elections were held in Sweden on 20 September 1970,^[1] two years ahead of schedule because of the opening of the newly unicameral Riksdag. The Social Democratic remained the largest party, winning 163 of the 350 seats and gathered enough support to remain in power under its in 1969 elected leader, Prime Minister Olof Palme.

Results

References

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