Swedish general election, 1964

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September 20, 1964

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All 233 seats to the Second Chamber of the Riksdag
117 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Tage Erlander	Bertil Ohlin	Gunnar Hedlund
Party	Social Democratic	People's	Centre
Last election	114	40	34
Seats won	113	43	35
Seat change	1	3	1
Popular vote	2,006,923	720,733	559,632
Percentage	47.30%	17.0%	13.2%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Gunnar Heckscher	C.-H. Hermansson
Party	Rightist	Communist
Last election	39	5
Seats won	33	8
Seat change	6	3
Popular vote	582,609	221,746
Percentage	13.7%	5.2%

PM before election

Tage Erlander
Social Democratic

Elected PM

Tage Erlander
Social Democratic

General elections were held in Sweden on 20 September 1964. The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 113 of the 233 seats in the Second Chamber of the Riksdag. Tage Erlander's Social Democratic government was returned to power.

^a Civic Unity was a joint list of the three right-wing parties in Malmö. One of its elected candidates was a member of the Centre Party, but sat as an independent.

^b The Middle Parties was a joint list of the Centre Party and People's Party that contested some constituencies.

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