Swedish general election, 1940

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15 September 1940

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All 230 seats to the Second Chamber of the Riksdag
116 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Per Albin Hansson	Gösta Bagge	Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp
Party	Social Democratic	Right	Farmers' League
Last election	112	44	36
Seats won	134	42	28
Seat change	22	2	8
Popular vote	1,546,804	518,346	344,345
Percentage	53.81%	18.03%	12.0%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Gustaf Andersson	Sven Linderot
Party	People's	Communist
Last election	27	5
Seats won	23	3
Seat change	4	2
Popular vote	344,113	101,424
Percentage	12.0%	3.5%

PM before election

Per Albin Hansson
Social Democratic

Elected PM

Per Albin Hansson
Social Democratic

General elections were held in Sweden on 15 September 1940. The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 134 of the 230 seats in the Second Chamber of the Riksdag. It is one of two general elections in Swedish history where a single party received more than half of the vote (the other occasion being 1968).

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