Swedish general election, 1940
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Elections to the second chamber of the Riksdag
held 15 September 1940. It is one of two general elections in Swedish history where a single party received more than half of the vote (the other being the election of 1968
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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 15 September 1940. It is one of two general elections in Swedish history where a single party received more than half of the vote (the other being the election of 1968
Swedish general election, 1968
Elections to the second chamber of the Riksdag held 15 September 1968. Held in the wake of the crushing of the Prague spring, it resulted in a landslide victory for the Social Democratic government and Prime Minister Tage Erlander. Erlander would resign the following year after an uninterrupted...
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| Party | Leader | Votes | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antal | % | +− % | Antal | +− | |||
| Social Democrats | 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... |
1,546,804 | 53.81 | +7.95 | 134 | +22 | |
| Rightist Party | Gösta Bagge Gösta Bagge Gösta Adolfsson Bagge was a Swedish professor of economics and conservative politician.Born on 27 May 1882 in Stockholm, Gösta Bagge was declared leader for the National Organization of the Right after the sudden retirement of Arvid Lindman in 1935, and remained its leader until 1944... |
518,346 | 18.03 | +0.46 | 42 | −2 | |
| Farmers' League | Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp Axel Alarik Pehrsson-Bramstorp was a Swedish politician and was Prime Minister of Sweden for a few months during 1936. As a parliamentarian he was known as "Axel Pehrsson in Bramstorp" or just "Bramstorp" for short... |
344,345 | 11.98 | −2.37 | 28 | −8 | |
| People's Party Liberal People's Party (Sweden) The Liberal People's Party is a political party in Sweden. The party advocates social liberalism and is part of the governing centre-right coalition The Alliance, which achieved a majority in the general election of 17 September 2006... |
Gustaf Andersson Gustaf Andersson Gustaf Andersson is a former football striker, ending his career in 2007 after not getting a new contract with Swedish Premier Division side Helsingborgs IF. He signed for the club in 2002, leaving IFK Göteborg. He was known as a versatile player who runs a lot and whose headings are a fearful... |
344,113 | 11.97 | −0.92 | 23 | −4 | |
| Communist Party of Sweden | Sven Linderot Sven Linderot Sven Harald Linderot was a Swedish Communist leader. He was born Sven Harald Larsson but changed his surname to Linderot in 1918... |
101,424 | 3.53 | +0.22 | 3 | −2 | |
| Socialist Party 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... |
Nils Flyg Nils Flyg Nils Svante Flyg was a Swedish Communist politician who turned pro-Nazi during World War II.Nils Flyg was born and raised in Södermalm, a working-class area of Stockholm. Early on he joined the Swedish Social Democratic Party's youth organization, the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League... |
18,432 | 0.64 | −3.74 | 0 | −6 | |
| Left Socialist Party Left Socialist Party Vänstersocialistiska Partiet was a political party in Sweden that existed between 1940 and 1963.Albin Ström was a leftwing Social Democrat from Göteborg that broke out of the Social Democratic Party in 1934. With him followed thousands of other Social Democrats from the West Coast-region... |
Albin Ström Albin Ström Albin Ström was a Swedish socialist politician from Gothenburg. As a young Social Democrat, Ström joined Zeth Höglund in 1917 when the party was split in two, as Höglund's radical left-wing was expelled... |
898 | 0.03 | +0.03 | — | — | |
| Others | — | 57 | 0.00 | — | — | — | |
| No. of valid votes | 2,874,417 | 100.00 | 230 | ||||
| Invalid votes | ? | ||||||
| Total | 2,889,137 (70.3 %) |
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