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Map of the election, showing the distribution of constituency and levelling seats, as well as the largest political bloc within each constituency. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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General elections were held in Sweden on 19 September 1976.[1] Although the Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 152 of the 349 seats in the Riksdag,[2] a coalition government was formed with the Centre Party, the People's Party and the conservative Moderate Party (who won a combined 180 seats), which formed Sweden's first non-socialist government since 1936. Centre Party leader Thorbjörn Fälldin, who had widely been expected to take over the government in the previous election of 1973 (which turned out to bring a 175-175 draw between the left and right blocs), was appointed Prime Minister, the first not from the Swedish Social Democratic Party since Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp's brief interregnum 40 years earlier.
Results
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Swedish Social Democratic Party | 2,324,603 | 42.75 | 152 | –4 | |
Centre Party | 1,309,669 | 24.08 | 86 | –4 | |
Moderate Party | 847,672 | 15.59 | 55 | +4 | |
People's Party | 601,556 | 11.06 | 39 | +5 | |
Left Party Communists | 258,432 | 4.75 | 17 | –2 | |
Christian Democratic Unity | 73,844 | 1.36 | 0 | 0 | |
Communist Party | 17,309 | 0.32 | 0 | 0 | |
Other parties | 4,663 | 0.09 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 5,437,748 | 100.00 | 349 | –1 | |
Valid votes | 5,437,748 | 99.65 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 19,295 | 0.35 | |||
Total votes | 5,457,043 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 5,947,077 | 91.76 | |||
Source: Nohlen & Stöver |
Seat distribution
Constituency | Total seats |
Seats won | |||||||
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By party | By coalition | ||||||||
S | C | M | F | V | Right | Left | |||
Älvsborg North | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | ||
Älvsborg South | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | ||
Blekinge | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | ||
Bohus | 11 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | ||
Fyrstadskretsen | 19 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 10 | |
Gävleborg | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | |
Gothenburg | 19 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 9 | |
Gotland | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Halland | 9 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | ||
Jämtland | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | ||||
Jönköping | 13 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | ||
Kalmar | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | ||
Kopparberg | 13 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | |
Kristianstad | 12 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | ||
Kronoberg | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | |||
Malmöhus | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | ||
Norrbotten | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | |
Örebro | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | ||
Östergötland | 18 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 9 | |
Skaraborg | 11 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | ||
Södermanland | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||
Stockholm County | 33 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 15 | |
Stockholm Municipality | 32 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 16 | |
Uppsala | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | |
Värmland | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | ||
Västerbotten | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | ||
Västernorrland | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | ||
Västmanland | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||
Total | 349 | 152 | 86 | 55 | 39 | 17 | 180 | 169 | |
Source: Statistics Sweden |
By municipality
- Votes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes within the coalition that won relative majority.
- Cartogram of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast.
- Map showing the voting shifts from the 1973 to the 1976 election. Darker blue indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that formed the centre-right bloc. Darker red indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that form the left-wing bloc.
- Votes by municipality as a scale from red/Left-wing bloc to blue/Centre-right bloc.
- Cartogram of vote with each municipality rescaled in proportion to number of valid votes cast. Deeper blue represents a relative majority for the centre-right coalition, brighter red represents a relative majority for the left-wing coalition.