1958 Swedish general election

Election

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All 231 seats in the Andra kammaren of the Riksdag
116 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Tage Erlander	Jarl Hjalmarson	Bertil Ohlin
Party	Social Democrats	Right	People's Party
Last election	106	42	58
Seats won	111	45	38
Seat change	5	3	20
Popular vote	1,776,667	750,332	700,019
Percentage	46.22%	19.52%	18.21%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Gunnar Hedlund	Hilding Hagberg
Party	Centre	Communist
Last election	19	6
Seats won	32	5
Seat change	13	1
Popular vote	486,760	129,319
Percentage	12.66%	3.36%

Largest bloc and seats won by constituency

Prime Minister before election

Tage Erlander
Social Democrats

Elected Prime Minister

Tage Erlander
Social Democrats

Early general elections were held in Sweden on 1 June 1958, after the defeat of the Social Democratic government's proposals for a new pensions system in a parliamentary vote. The Social Democrats remained the largest party, winning 111 of the 231 seats in the Andra kammaren of the Riksdag, and Tage Erlander's third government was returned to power. In accordance with the law, the new Chamber was elected only to complete the previous Chamber's term, which was due to end in 1960.

Results

Main article: Results of the 1958 Swedish general election



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Swedish Social Democratic Party	1,776,667	46.22	111	+5
	Rightist Party	750,332	19.52	45	+3
	People's Party	700,019	18.21	38	–20
	Centre Party	486,760	12.66	32	+13
	Communist Party	129,319	3.36	5	–1
	Left Socialist Party	1,008	0.03	0	0
	Other parties	147	0.00	0	0
Total		3,844,252	100.00	231	0

Valid votes		3,844,252	99.46
Invalid/blank votes		20,711	0.54
Total votes		3,864,963	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		4,992,421	77.42
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
Nohlen & Stöver, p1872

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