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 16, 1956. The Social Democratic-Farmers' League coalition government of Prime Minister Tage Erlander was formed after the election because of a majority in the chamber of the liberal People's Party, Peasants' League and the Rightist Party. The social democrats however held a majority in the other chamber so a non-socialist government could not be formed in the government negotiations. The coalition parties would later split due to disagreements over the pensions system in 1957, which led to the formation of Tage Erlander's third government and a snap election in 1958.

Party		Leader	Votes			Seats
			Antal	%	+− %	Antal	+−
	Social Democrats	Tage Erlander Tage Erlander was a Swedish politician. He was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and Prime Minister of Sweden from 1946 to 1969...	1 729 501	44,58	−1,47	106	−4
	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...	Bertil Ohlin Bertil Ohlin Bertil Gotthard Ohlin was a Swedish economist and politician. He was a professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1929 to 1965. He was also leader of the People's Party, a social-liberal party which at the time was the largest party in opposition to the governing Social...	923 551	23,81	−0,63	58	+/−0
	Rightist Party	Jarl Hjalmarson Jarl Hjalmarson Jarl Harald Hjalmarson , was the leader of the conservative Swedish Rightist Party , today known as the Moderate Party, between 1950 and 1961.-Family:...	663 742	17,11	+2,74	42	+11
	Peasants' League	Gunnar Hedlund Gunnar Hedlund Gunnar Hedlund was a Swedish politician. He was chairman of the Centre Party 1949-1971, Home Secretary 1951-1957 and member of the Riksdag 1942-1976....	366 567	9,45	−1,29	19	−7
	Communist Party	Hilding Hagberg Hilding Hagberg Karl Hilding Hagberg was a Swedish communist politician. He was the leader of the Communist Party of Sweden from 1951 to 1964....	194 017	5,00	+0,66	6	+1
	Others	—	1 887	0,05	—	—	—
No. of valid votes			3 879 265	100,00		231	+1
Invalid votes			?
Total			? (79,8 %)

The category 'Others' consists almost entirely of votes for the 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...

 in Göteborg and Samlingspartiet in Skåne.