1924 Swedish general election

1924 Swedish general election

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All 230 seats in the Riksdag
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Hjalmar Branting Arvid Lindman Carl Gustaf Ekman
Party Social Democrats Electoral League Free-minded
Last election 93 62 41
Seats won 104 65 29
Seat change Increase11 Increase3 Decrease12
Popular vote 725,407 461,257 228,913
Percentage 41.09% 26.12% 12.97%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Johan Andersson Eliel Löfgren Nils Flyg
Party Farmers' League Liberals Communist
Last election 21 7
Seats won 23 4 4
Seat change Increase2 New Decrease3
Popular vote 190,396 69,627 63,301
Percentage 10.78% 3.94% 3.60%

  Seventh party
 
Leader Zeth Höglund
Party Höglund Communist
Last election
Seats won 1
Seat change New
Popular vote 26,301
Percentage 1.49%

Largest bloc and seats won by constituency

Prime Minister before election

Ernst Trygger
Electoral League

PM-elect

Hjalmar Branting
Social Democrats

Caricature in a communist newspaper, on the new government formed by Hjalmar Branting after the elections

General elections were held in Sweden between 19 and 21 September 1924.[1] The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 104 of the 230 seats in the Second Chamber of the Riksdag.[2]

  1. ^ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1872

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