Elections to the second chamber of the Riksdag

Parliament of Sweden

The Riksdag is the national legislative assembly of Sweden. The riksdag is a unicameral assembly with 349 members , who are elected on a proportional basis to serve fixed terms of four years...

 held September 17-18 1932. They resulted in the Social Democrats regaining government after six years in opposition, and it marked the beginning of 44 years of near-uninterrupted rule (the only exception was three months in 1936) for the Social Democratic Party.

Party		Leader	Votes			Seats
			Antal	%	+− %	Antal	+−
	Social Democrats (The Labour Party)	Per Albin Hansson Per Albin Hansson Per Albin Hansson , was a Swedish politician, chairman of the Social Democrats from 1925 and two-time Prime Minister in four governments between 1932 and 1946, governing all that period save for a short-lived crisis in the summer of 1936, which he ended by forming a coalition government with his...	1 040 680	41,72	+4.7	104	+14
	General Electoral League (The Right Wing Party) Moderate Party The Moderate Party is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of conservatives in the Swedish parliament...	Arvid Lindman Arvid Lindman Salomon Arvid Achates Lindman was a Swedish Rear Admiral, Industrialist and conservative politician...	584 964	23,45	-5.5	58	−15
	Peasants League	Olof Olsson in Kullenbergstorp	351 256	14,08	2.9	36	+9
	Free-minded People's Party	Felix Hamrin Felix Hamrin Felix Teodor Hamrin was a Swedish politician. He was the leader of the liberal Freeminded People's Party and served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 6 August to 24 September 1932....	250 336	10,03	-3.1	20	−8
	Kilbom Communists Socialist Party (Sweden, 1929) The Socialist Party , initially known as the Communist Party of Sweden , was a political party in Sweden active from 1929 to 1948. The party was founded in 1929 by the major faction of the Communist Party of Sweden, led by Karl Kilbom and Nils Flyg, as the party split into two parties with the same...	Karl Kilbom Karl Kilbom Karl Kilbom was a Swedish Socialist politician.-Youth:As the son of a blacksmith, Karl Kilbom grew up in a working-class family of Walloon origin in the small town of Österby outside Uppsala, where he started working in the steel mills at an early age.In the year 1900, a socialist agitator visited...	132 595	5,32	5.3	6	−2
	Sillén Communists	Hugo Sillén Hugo Sillén Hugo Sillén was a Swedish Communist politician. In the 1929 split of the Communist Party of Sweden, Sillén led the pro-Comintern fraction that expelled Karl Kilbom and the majority of the party members with support of the Comintern that feared Kilbom would support Bukharin's right opposition...	74 239	2,98	-3.4	2	+2
	Liberal Party of Sweden Liberal Party of Sweden The Liberal Party of Sweden was a political party in Sweden. It was formed in 1923 by the anti-prohibition minority of the Liberal Coalition Party as a consequence of the split over the issue on alcohol prohibition...	Karl Andreas Andersson	45 462	1,82	-1.1	4	0
	Swedish National-Socialist Party	Birger Furugård Birger Furugård Birger Furugård was a Swedish politician and veterinarian. He hailed from Deje in Värmland. During the 1920s Furgård became inspired by the advance of National Socialism in Germany. He made several trips to Germany, and met with Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler...	15 188	0,61	+0.6	0	—
	Clerical People's Party Clerical People's Party Kyrkliga Folkpartiet a minor pro-fascist party in Sweden founded in 1930; not to be confused with the mainstream Liberal People's Party. The party was formed a led by Ivar Rhedin, a priest in the Church of Sweden. Rhedin was the editor of Göteborgs Stiftstidning , in which he wrote many pro-German...	Ivar Rhedin	8 911	0,4	+0.4	0	—
	Centre party	N/A	2 501	0,1	+0.1	0	—
No. of valid votes			2 494 720	100,00		230
Invalid votes			?
Total			2 500 769 (68,6 %)

The results of the election were clear; the Free-minded People's Party government under Prime Minister Felix Hamrin was replaced by a Social Democratic government, with the Social Democratic party leader Per Albin Hansson as Prime Minister.

See also

• Elections in Sweden
  Elections in Sweden
  Elections in the Kingdom of Sweden are held every four years, and determine the makeup of the legislative bodies on the three levels of administrative division in the country. At the highest level, these elections determine the allocation of seats in the Riksdag, the national legislative body of...