Election to the Swedish Parliament in 1998

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(in %)

 %

40

30th

20th

10

0

36.39

22.90

11.99

11.77

5.13

4.72

4.49

2.61

S.

M.

V

KD

C.

FP

MP

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 1994

 % p

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-10

-8.86

+0.52

+5.83

+7.70

-2.52

-2.47

-0.53

+0.34

S.

M.

V

KD

C.

FP

MP

Otherwise.

43

131

16

18th

17th

42

82

43 131 16 18th 17th 42 82 

A total of 349 seats

• V : 43
• S : 131
• MP : 16
• C : 18th
• FP : 17
• KD : 42
• M : 82

The election to the Swedish Parliament in 1998 took place on 20 September 1998th

Survey

Surveys (in%)

Survey period	S.	V	MP	M.	FP	C.	KD	Others
September 1998	35.6	12.9	5.2	23.8	5.0	5.8	9.1	2.6
August 1998	37.9	11.1	6.3	24.7	5.9	5.0	5.7	3.4
June 1998	37.4	11.4	7.0	27.0	5.1	5.8	4.5	1.8
May 1998	37.7	9.8	6.1	28.5	5.8	5.9	3.9	2.3
April 1998	38.3	10.2	6.2	35.7	6.8	6.5	4.0	2.3
March 1998	35.3	10.0	6.4	26.9	7.3	6.4	5.2	2.5
February 1998	37.0	9.9	7.2	26.6	7.1	4.4	5.5	2.3
January 1998	37.8	10.4	6.3	30.4	5.3	4.9	3.1	1.8
Election 1994	45.3	6.2	5.0	22.4	7.2	7.7	4.1	2.1

Election result

Result of the 1998 election to the Swedish Parliament

Political party		be right			Seats
		number	%	+/-	number	+/-
	Swedish Social Democratic Labor Party (S)	1,914,426	36.39	−8.86	131	−30
	Moderate gathering party (M)	1,204,926	22.90	+0.52	82	+2
	Left Party (V)	631.011	11.99	+5.83	43	+21
	Christian Democrats (KD)	619.046	11.77	+7.7	42	+27
	Center Party (C)	269,762	5.13	−2.52	18th	−9
	People's Party The Liberals (FP)	248 076	4.72	−2.47	17th	−9
	Environment party The Greens (MP)	236,699	4.49	−0.53	16	−2
	Swedish Pensioners Interest Party (SPI)	52,869	1.00	-	-	-
	The new party (D)	25,276	0.48	+0.48	-	-
	Sweden Democrats (SD)	19,624	0.37	+0.12	-	-
	Others	39,407	0.76	-	-	-
total		5,261,122	100.00		349
Valid votes		5,261,122	97.89
Invalid votes		113,466	2.11
voter turnout		5,374,588	81.39
Eligible voters		6,603,129	100.00
Source:

Government formation

After the losses in this election, the social democratic minority government under Prime Minister Göran Persson needed the support of another party in addition to the Left Party, which achieved the best election result in its history, but could not compensate for the losses of the Social Democrats in order to remain in office. To this end, an agreement was reached with the Greens.

Web links

• Official website of the Swedish Parliament

See also

• Sweden's political system

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Official result of the election for the Swedish Parliament 1998 val.se (Swedish)
2. ↑ Surveys  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Demoskop , PDF document (Swedish)