General elections were held in Sweden on 18 September 1988.[1] The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in the Riksdag, winning 156 of the 349 seats.[2]
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ResultsEdit
There were 5,373,719 valid ballots cast.[3]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | ||
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Swedish Social Democratic Party | 2,321,826 | 43.2 | 156 | –3 | ||
Moderate Party | 983,226 | 18.3 | 66 | –10 | ||
People's Party | 655,720 | 12.2 | 44 | –7 | ||
Centre Party | 607,240 | 11.3 | 42 | –1 | ||
Left Party Communists | 314,031 | 5.8 | 21 | +2 | ||
Green Party | 296,935 | 5.5 | 20 | +20 | ||
Christian Democratic Society Party | 158,182 | 2.9 | 0 | –1 | ||
Other parties | 36,559 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 67,331 | – | – | – | ||
Total | 5,441,050 | 100 | 349 | 0 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 6,330,023 | 86.0 | – | – | ||
Source: Nohlen & Stöver |
By municipalityEdit
Cartogram of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast.
Cartogram of vote with each municipality rescaled in proportion to number of valid votes cast. Deeper blue represents a relative majority for the centre-right coalition, brighter red represents a relative majority for the left-wing coalition.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1873
- ^ "Allmänna valen 1988. Del 1, Riksdagsvalet den 18 september 1988" (PDF) (in Swedish). Statistical Central Bureau. Retrieved 15 November 2019.