Swedish general election, 1970

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20 September 1970

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All 350 seats to the Riksdag
176 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Olof Palme	Gunnar Hedlund	Gunnar Helén
Party	Social Democratic	Centre	People's
Last election	125	39	34
Seats won	163	71	58
Seat change	38	32	24
Popular vote	2,256,369	991,208	806,667
Percentage	45.3%	19.9%	16.2%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Yngve Holmberg	C.-H. Hermansson
Party	Moderate	Left-Communist
Last election	32	3
Seats won	41	17
Seat change	9	14
Popular vote	573,812	236,659
Percentage	11.5%	4.8%

PM before election

Olof Palme
Social Democratic

Elected PM

Olof Palme
Social Democratic

General elections were held in Sweden on 20 September 1970, two years ahead of schedule because of the opening of the newly unicameral Riksdag. The Social Democratic remained the largest party, winning 163 of the 350 seats and gathered enough support to remain in power under its in 1969 elected leader, Prime Minister Olof Palme.

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