Election to the Swedish parliament in 1973

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Election to the Swedish parliament in 1973
(in %)
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
43.56
25.10
14.29
9.42
5.33
1.75
0.55
FP
VPK
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 1970
 % p
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-1.78
+5.19
+2.76
-6.79
+0.58
-0.05
+0.09
FP
VPK
Otherwise.
19th
156
90
34
51
19th 156 90 34 51 
A total of 350 seats
  • VPK : 19
  • S : 156
  • C : 90
  • FP : 34
  • M : 51

The 1973 election for the Swedish Reichstag took place on September 16, 1973.

Election campaign

The social democrats promoted nuclear power for modernist-progressive and welfare state motives . The traditionally agrarian Center Party, on the other hand, took up the demands of the emerging environmental movement and tried to address more urban voters and well-educated milieus .

Election result

With 43.6 percent, the Social Democrats achieved their worst result since 1932, but were able to stay in power with a minority government under Olof Palme (since 1969). In contrast, the Center Party rose to 25.1 percent, its best result in the Reichstag elections to date. While the Conservatives recorded a slight increase in votes and again became the third largest group, the Liberals suffered the greatest losses. Left party and Christian Democrats stagnated in their values, with the latter not making it into the Reichstag.

Result of the election to the Swedish parliament in 1973
Political party Chairman be right Seats
number % +/- number +/-
Swedish Social Democratic Labor Party (S) Olof Palme 2,247,727 43.56 −1.78 156 −7
Center Party (C) Thorbjörn Fälldin 1,295,246 25.10 +5.19 90 +19
Moderate gathering party (M) Gosta Bohman 737.584 14.29 +2.76 51 +10
People's Party (FP) Gunnar Helén 486.028 9.42 −6.79 34 −24
Left Party Communists (V) Carl-Henrik Hermansson 274.929 5.33 +0.58 19th +2
Christian Democratic Collection Movement (KD) Alf Svensson 90,388 1.75 −0.05 - -
Communist League Marxists-Leninists (Revolutionaries) (KFML (r)) Frank Baude 8,014 0.16 −0.27 - -
Others 20,230 0.39 - - -
total 5,160,146 100.00 350
Eligible voters 5,690,333
voter turnout 90.84%
Votes cast 5,168,996
Invalid votes 8,850
Source:

Further course

The left and the bourgeois bloc had 175 votes each in the new Reichstag - a situation that often led to a voting patter, so that many decisions were made by lot. That is why this Reichstag went down in history as the “Lottery Reichstag”. As a result, from 1976 onwards, an odd number of MPs was set.

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Official result of the election to the Swedish Diet 1973 Statistiska centralbyrån , PDF document (Swedish, English)
  2. ↑ Detlef Jahn: The Swedish political system ( memento of the original from November 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.4 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.phil.uni-greifswald.de