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 1 June 1958, the last election in Swedish history ever held in June. Since 1960, all Swedish elections have been held in September. They were as well the latest snap election

Snap election

A snap election is an election called earlier than expected. Generally it refers to an election in a parliamentary system called when not required , usually to capitalize on a unique electoral opportunity or to decide a pressing issue...

s ever held in Swedish history. The snap election was caused by the defeat of the Social Democratic government's proposals for a new pensions system in a parliament vote.

Tage Erlander's third government was returned to power.

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...	1 776 667	46,22	+1,64	111	+5
	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:...	750 332	19,52	+2,41	45	+3
	Centre Party	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....	486 760	12,66	+3,21	32	+13
	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...	700 019	18,21	−5,60	38	−20
	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....	129 319	3,36	−1,64	5	−1
	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...	1 008	0,03	—	0	—
	Others	—	147	0,00	—	—	—
No. of valid votes			3 844 252	100,00		231
Invalid votes			?
Total			3 864 963 (77,4 %)