1988 Swedish general election

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]

1988 Swedish general election

18 September 1988
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 People's Last election 159 76 51 Seats won 156 66 44 Seat change 3 10 7 Popular vote 2,321,826 983,226 655,720 Percentage 43.2% 18.3% 12.2% Swing 1.5% 3.0% 2.0%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Olof Johansson Lars Werner Eva Goës Birger Schlaug Party Centre Left-Communist Green Last election 43 19 0 Seats won 42 21 20 Seat change 1 2 20 Popular vote 607,240 314,031 296,935 Percentage 11.3% 5.8% 5.5% Swing 1.5% 0.5% 4.0%
PM before election Ingvar Carlsson Social Democratic Elected PM Ingvar Carlsson Social Democratic

Results

Main article: Results of the 1988 Swedish general election

There were 5,373,719 valid ballots cast.[3]

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
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

Popular vote S   43.21% M   18.30% FP   12.20% C   11.30% VPK   5.84% MP   5.53% KD   2.94% Others   0.68%

Parliament seats S   44.70% M   18.91% FP   12.61% C   12.03% VPK   6.02% MP   5.73%

By municipality

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  Votes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes within the coalition that won relative majority.
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  Cartogram of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast.
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  Map showing the voting shifts from the 1985 to the 1988 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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  Votes by municipality as a scale from red/Left-wing bloc to blue/Centre-right bloc.
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  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.

References

1. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1873
3. "Allmänna valen 1988. Del 1, Riksdagsvalet den 18 september 1988" (PDF) (in Swedish). Statistical Central Bureau. Retrieved 15 November 2019.