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Sweden general election, 1994

Swedish general election, 1994
Sweden
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All 349 seats to the Riksdag
175 seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
  Ingvar Carlsson.jpg Carl Bildt 2001-05-15.jpg Olof Johansson
Leader Ingvar Carlsson Carl Bildt Olof Johansson
Party Social Democratic Moderate Centre
Alliance Centre-left Centre-Right Centre-Right
Last election 138 80 31
Seats won 161 80 27
Seat change Increase23 Steady0 Decrease4
Popular vote 2,513,905 1,243,253 425,153
Percentage 45.3% 22.4% 7.7%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
  Bengt Westerberg Gudrun Schyman
Leader Bengt Westerberg Gudrun Schyman Marianne Samuelsson
Birger Schlaug
Party Liberal People's Left Green
Alliance Centre-Right Left-wing Left-wing
Last election 33 16 0
Seats won 26 22 18
Seat change Decrease7 Increase6 Increase18
Popular vote 399,556 342,988 279,042
Percentage 7.2% 6.2% 5.0%

  Seventh party Eighth party
  Alf Svensson
Leader Alf Svensson Vivianne Franzén
Party Christian Democrats New Democracy
Alliance Centre-Right
Last election 26 24
Seats won 15 0
Seat change Decrease11 Decrease24
Popular vote 225,974 68,663
Percentage 4.1% 1.2%

PM before election

Carl Bildt
Moderate

Elected PM

Ingvar Carlsson
Social Democratic


Carl Bildt
Moderate

Ingvar Carlsson
Social Democratic

General elections were held in Sweden on 18 September 1994. The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in the Riksdag, winning 161 of the 349 seats. Led by Ingvar Carlsson, the party returned to power and formed a minority government after the election. The Greens also returned to the Riksdag after a three-year absence.

The Moderates slightly improved on their 1991 performance, but the Centre Party, the Liberals and the Christian Democrats all fared poorly, the latter barely holding on to their parliamentary representation. New Democracy, a populist political party which had entered the Riksdag three years earlier, performed poorly, losing most of its voters and all of its seats in the Riksdag. In total the party's vote share dropped from 6.7% in 1991 to 1.2% in 1994. The election introduced an extended electoral cycle of four years, replacing the previous three-year terms.

It was also notable for being the first electoral event in the world whose official results were published live on the nascent World Wide Web (other countries had previously used the then-fledging Internet to officially broadcast election results, but with simpler methods such as e-mail lists).

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 1991 to the 1994 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.


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