Swedish general election, 1917

1 September 1917

All 230 seats in the Riksdag

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Hjalmar Branting	Daniel Persson	Arvid Lindman
Party	Social Democratic	Free-minded National	Electoral League
Last election	87	57	86
Seats won	86	62	59
Seat change	1	5	27
Popular vote	228,777	202,936	182,070
Percentage	31.1%	27.6%	24.7%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Zeth Höglund	Erik Eriksson	?
Party	Social Democratic Left	Farmers' League	National Farmers'
Last election	New	0	New
Seats won	11	9	3
Seat change	11	9	3
Popular vote	59,243	39,262	22,659
Percentage	8.0%	5.3%	3.1%

Prime Minister before election

Carl Swartz
Electoral League

PM-elect

Nils Edén
Free-minded National

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General elections were held in Sweden between 1 and 16 September 1917.^[1] The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 86 of the 230 seats in the Second Chamber of the Riksdag.^[2] As a result the Rightist Prime Minister Carl Swartz resigned the premiership and was replaced by Liberal leader Nils Edén.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Swedish Social Democratic Party	228,777	31.1	86	–1
Free-minded National Association	202,936	27.6	62	+5
General Electoral League	182,070	24.7	57	–29
Social Democratic Left Party of Sweden	59,243	8.0	11	New
Farmers' League	39,262	5.3	9	+9
National Farmers' Association	22,659	3.1	5	New
Other parties	1,037	0.1	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	3,066	–	–	–
Total	739,050	100	230	0
Registered voters/turnout	1,123,969	65.8	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p1871

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