1924 Swedish general election

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All 230 seats in the Riksdag

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Hjalmar Branting	Arvid Lindman	Carl Gustaf Ekman
Party	Social Democrats	Electoral League	Free-minded
Last election	93	62	41
Seats won	104	65	29
Seat change	11	3	12
Popular vote	725,407	461,257	228,913
Percentage	41.09%	26.12%	12.97%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Johan Andersson	Eliel Löfgren	Nils Flyg
Party	Farmers' League	Liberals	Communist
Last election	21	–	7
Seats won	23	4	4
Seat change	2	New	3
Popular vote	190,396	69,627	63,301
Percentage	10.78%	3.94%	3.60%

	Seventh party

Leader	Zeth Höglund
Party	Höglund Communist
Last election	–
Seats won	1
Seat change	New
Popular vote	26,301
Percentage	1.49%

Largest bloc and seats won by constituency

Prime Minister before election

Ernst Trygger
Electoral League

PM-elect

Hjalmar Branting
Social Democrats

Caricature in a communist newspaper, on the new government formed by Hjalmar Branting after the elections

General elections were held in Sweden between 19 and 21 September 1924. The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 104 of the 230 seats in the Second Chamber of the Riksdag.

Results

Main article: Results of the 1924 Swedish general election



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Swedish Social Democratic Party	725,407	41.09	104	+11
	General Electoral League	461,257	26.12	65	+3
	Free-minded National Association	228,913	12.97	29	–12
	Farmers' League	190,396	10.78	23	+2
	Liberal Party	69,627	3.94	4	New
	Communist Party	63,601	3.60	4	–3
	Communist Party (Höglund Tendency)	26,301	1.49	1	New
	Other parties	84	0.00	0	0
Total		1,765,586	100.00	230	0

Valid votes		1,765,586	99.69
Invalid/blank votes		5,473	0.31
Total votes		1,771,059	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		3,338,892	53.04
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Aftermath

After the election the Cabinet of Ernst Trygger resigned and Gustav V asked Hjalmar Branting to form a new Cabinet which the Social Democratic leader accepted.

References

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

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