Elections to the Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 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...

 was held 20 September 1970, two years ahead of schedule because of the opening of the new parliament

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...

 (riksdag) the same year. It was the first election under the new unicameral system. The Social Democratic government gathered enough support to remain in power under its leader, prime minister Olof Palme

Olof Palme

Sven Olof Joachim Palme was a Swedish politician. A long-time protegé of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 to his assassination, and was a two-term Prime Minister of Sweden, heading a Privy Council Government from 1969 to 1976 and a cabinet...

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Party		Leader	Votes			Seats
			No.	%	+− %	No.	+−
	Social Democrats	Olof Palme Olof Palme Sven Olof Joachim Palme was a Swedish politician. A long-time protegé of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 to his assassination, and was a two-term Prime Minister of Sweden, heading a Privy Council Government from 1969 to 1976 and a cabinet...	2 256 369	45,3	−4,8	163	-
	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....	991 208	19,9	+4,2	71	-
	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...	Gunnar Helén Gunnar Helén Gunnar Helén, was a Swedish liberal politician. He was party leader of Liberal People's Party 1969-1975, Governor of Kronoberg County 1965-1970 and of Stockholm County 1977-1984....	806 667	16,2	+1,9	58	-
	Moderate Party Moderate Party The Moderate Party is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of conservatives in the Swedish parliament...	Yngve Holmberg	573 812	11,5	−1,4	41	-
	Left Party - Communists	C.-H. Hermansson	236 659	4,8	+1,8	17	-
	Christian Democratic Unity	Birger Ekstedt Birger Ekstedt Birger Ekstedt, , was a Swedish politician and a priest.Birger Ekstedt began his political career as a cultural-conservative member of the right-wing youth organisation, Högerns Ungdomsförbund and a frequent editorial in their newspaper.After losing a battle over the party's manifesto in 1956 he...	88 770	1,8	+0,3	0	-
	KFML Communist Party of Sweden (1967) Kommunistiska Förbundet Marxist-Leninisterna was formed at the 1967 party congress of VPK, when a pro-Chinese group left the party.-1967–1980:...	Nils Holmberg Nils Holmberg Nils Gösta Holmberg was a communist leader in Sweden. Holmberg was born on December 23, 1902 in Stockholm. Holmberg was a member of the Young Communist League of Sweden . From 1926 to 1929 he was a member of the executive committee of SKU. Later on, the became a leading member of the mother party,...	21 238	0,4	+0,4	0	-
	Others	—	?	?	—	—	—
No. of valid votes			?	100,00		350
Invalid			?
Total (postal votes: 698 296)			4 984 207 (88,3 %)