1920 Swedish general election

1920 Swedish general election

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All 230 seats in the Riksdag
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Hjalmar Branting Arvid Lindman Raoul Hamilton
Party Social Democrats Electoral League Free-minded
Last election 86 59 62
Seats won 75 71 47
Seat change Decrease11 Increase12 Decrease15
Popular vote 195,121 183,019 143,355
Percentage 29.65% 27.81% 21.78%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Johan Andersson Zeth Höglund
Party Farmers' League National Farmers' SSV
Last election 9 3 11
Seats won 20 10 7
Seat change Increase9 Increase5 Decrease4
Popular vote 52,318 40,623 42,056
Percentage 7.95% 6.17% 6.39%

Prime Minister before election

Hjalmar Branting
Social Democrats

PM-elect

Louis de Geer
Independent

General elections were held in Sweden between 4 and 17 September 1920, the last before universal suffrage was introduced the following year. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 75 of the 230 seats in the Second Chamber of the Riksdag. Later in October 1920 Hjalmar Branting was succeeded as prime minister by Baron Louis De Geer.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Swedish Social Democratic Party195,12129.6575–11
General Electoral League183,01927.8171+14
Free-minded National Association143,35521.7847–15
Farmers' League52,3187.9520+9
Social Democratic Left Party42,0566.397–4
National Farmers' Association40,6236.1710+5
Other parties1,6910.2600
Total658,183100.002300
Valid votes658,18399.70
Invalid/blank votes2,0110.30
Total votes660,194100.00
Registered voters/turnout1,192,92255.34
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

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