1917 Swedish general election

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All 230 seats in the Riksdag
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Hjalmar Branting Daniel Persson Arvid Lindman
Party Social Democratic Free-minded National Electoral League
Last election 87 57 86
Seats won 86 62 59
Seat change Decrease1 Increase5 Decrease27
Popular vote 228,777 202,936 182,070
Percentage 31.08% 27.57% 24.74%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
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Leader Zeth Höglund Erik Eriksson
Party SSV Farmers' League National Farmers'
Last election 0
Seats won 11 9 3
Seat change New Increase9 New
Popular vote 59,243 39,262 22,659
Percentage 8.05% 5.33% 3.08%

Prime Minister before election

Carl Swartz
Electoral League

PM-elect

Nils Edén
Free-minded National

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General elections were held in Sweden between 1 and 16 September 1917.[1] The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 86 of the 230 seats in the Second Chamber of the Riksdag.[2] As a result the Rightist Prime Minister Carl Swartz resigned the premiership and was replaced by Liberal leader Nils Edén.

Results

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References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1871