Swedish general election, 1991

Swedish general election, 1991

← 1988 15 September 1991 1994 →
All 349 seats to the Riksdag 175 seats were needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Ingvar Carlsson Carl Bildt Bengt Westerberg Party Social Democratic Moderate Liberal People's Alliance Left-Wing Centre-Right Centre-Right Last election 156 66 44 Seats won 138 80 33 Seat change 18 14 11 Popular vote 2,062,761 1,199,394 499,356 Percentage 37.7% 21.9% 9.1%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Olof Johansson Alf Svensson Ian Wachtmeister Bert Karlsson Party Centre Christian Democrats New Democracy Alliance Centre-Right Centre-Right Independent Last election 42 0 New party Seats won 31 26 24 Seat change 11 26 24 Popular vote 465,175 390,351 368,281 Percentage 8.5% 7.1% 6.7%   Seventh party Eighth party   Leader Lars Werner Jan Axelsson Margareta Gisselberg Party Left Green Alliance Left-Wing Left-Wing Last election 21 20 Seats won 16 0 Seat change 5 20 Popular vote 246,905 185,051 Percentage 4.5% 3.4%
Prime Minister before election Ingvar Carlsson Social Democratic Elected Prime Minister Carl Bildt Moderate

Ingvar Carlsson
Social Democratic

Carl Bildt
Moderate

General elections were held in Sweden on 15 September 1991. The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in the Riksdag, winning 138 of the 349 seats.

The election was notable due to the rise of a new right-wing populist party named New Democracy which succeeded in securing a parliamentary mandate for the first (and last) time.

The four parties of the centre-right coalition (the Centre Party, Liberal People's Party, Moderate Party, and Christian Democratic Society Party) were allocated a combined total of 171 seats, 17 more than the two left-wing parties' 154, but still less than the 175 necessary for a majority. Thus the centre-right bloc was dependent upon New Democracy to secure a parliamentary majority.

This election was also famous for the performance of the Donald Duck Party, which collected 1,535 votes, enough to make it the 9th largest in Sweden. The protest party's platform consisted of the demand for "free liquor and wider sidewalks."

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 1988 to the 1991 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.

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