Swedish general election, 1973
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Elections to the Swedish
Riksdag
held September 16, 1973. The result was that the Social democratic government continued to rule as a minority government because the non-socialist parties and the socialist parties had the same amount of seats in the new unicameral riksdag (175-175).
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held September 16, 1973. The result was that the Social democratic government continued to rule as a minority government because the non-socialist parties and the socialist parties had the same amount of seats in the new unicameral riksdag (175-175).
| Party | Leader | Votes | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | +− % | # | +− | |||
| Social Democrats Swedish Social Democratic Party The Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party, , contesting elections as 'the Workers' Party – the Social Democrats' , or sometimes referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' and most commonly as Sossarna ; is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1889... |
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... |
2,247,727 | 43.56 | −1,7 | 156 | −7 | |
| Centre Party Centre Party (Sweden) The Centre Party is a centrist political party in Sweden. The party maintains close ties to rural Sweden and describes itself as "a green social liberal party". The ideology is sometimes called agrarian, but in a European context, the Centre Party can perhaps best be characterized as social... |
Thorbjörn Fälldin Thorbjörn Fälldin Thorbjörn Fälldin is a Swedish politician. He was Prime Minister of Sweden in three non-consecutive cabinets from 1976 to 1982, and leader of the Swedish Centre Party from 1971 to 1985... |
1,295,246 | 25.10 | +5,2 | 90 | +19 | |
| 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... |
Gösta Bohman Gösta Bohman Bo Gösta Bohman was a Swedish politician and the leader of the Swedish liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1970 to 1981, during a period in which the party strengthened its position in Swedish politics. He served as Minister for the Economy during the three-party centre-right Swedish... |
737,584 | 14.29 | +2,8 | 51 | +10 | |
| 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.... |
486,028 | 9.42 | −6,8 | 34 | −24 | |
| Left Party - Communists Left Party (Sweden) The Left Party is a socialist and feminist political party in Sweden, from 1967 to 1990 known as the Left Party – The Communists .On welfare issues, the party opposes privatizations... |
C.-H. Hermansson | 274,929 | 5.33 | +0,5 | 19 | +2 | |
| Christian Democratic Unity Christian Democrats (Sweden) The Christian Democrats ) is a political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1964 but did not enter parliament until 1985 in an electoral cooperation with the Centre Party and on the Christian Democrats' own accord in 1991. The leader since April 3, 2004 is Göran Hägglund. He succeeded Alf... |
Alf Svensson Alf Svensson Alf Robert Olof Svensson is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament from 2009. Alf was the leader of the Christian Democrats in Sweden between 1973 and 3 April 2004. He was a Member of Parliament from 1985 to 1988 and again from 1991 until his election to the European Parliament... |
90,388 | 1.75 | — | — | — | |
| Communist Party of Sweden | Bo Gustafsson | 18,923 | 0.37 | — | — | — | |
| Communist League Marxist-Leninists (revolutionaries) Communist Party (Sweden) The Communist Party is a Marxist-Leninist political party in Sweden.1970-1977 it was known as the Communist League Marxist-Leninists and during 1977-2004 it had the name Communist Party Marxist-Leninists ... |
Frank Baude Frank Baude Frank Baude is a Swedish politician, bricklayer and former chairman of the Communist Party Marxist-Leninists , KPML, from 1970 to 1998.- References :... |
8,014 | 0.16 | — | — | — | |
| Others | — | 1,307 | 0.03 | — | — | — | |
| No. of valid votes | 5,160,146 | — | 350 | ||||
| Invalid votes | 8,850 | ||||||
| Left-wing bloc Social Democrats, Left Party |
2,522,656 | 48.9% | 1.2% | 175 | 5 | ||
| Centre-right bloc Centre Party, Moderates, People's Party |
2,518,858 | 48.8% | 1.2% | 175 | 5 | ||
| Total | 5,168,996 (90.84%) |
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