Swedish general election, 1948

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19 September 1948

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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	Tage Erlander	Bertil Ohlin	Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp
Party	Social Democratic	People's	Farmers' League
Last election	115	26	35
Seats won	112	57	30
Seat change	3	31	5
Popular vote	1,789,459	882,437	480,421
Percentage	46.1%	22.7%	12.4%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Fritiof Domö	Sven Linderot
Party	Right	Communist
Last election	39	15
Seats won	23	8
Seat change	16	7
Popular vote	478,786	244,826
Percentage	12.3%	6.3%

PM before election

Tage Erlander
Social Democratic

Elected PM

Tage Erlander
Social Democratic

General elections were held in Sweden on 19 September 1948. Despite a campaign by a large part of the Swedish press against socializing insurances, controlled foreign trade and rationing regulations still in use since the war, freshman Prime Minister and Social Democratic leader Tage Erlander managed to defeat the People's Party-led opposition under Bertil Ohlin by a higher election turnout. He maintained his government with only minor losses and the Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 112 of the 230 seats in the Second Chamber of the Riksdag. Erlander was later to stay on as Prime Minister until 1969, in 1951-1957 his government included the party Farmers' League.

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