1932 Swedish general election explained

Country:Sweden
Type:parliamentary
Previous Election:1928 Swedish general election
Previous Year:1928
Next Election:1936 Swedish general election
Next Year:1936
Seats For Election:All 230 seats in the Andra kammaren of the Riksdag
Election Date:17 September 1932
Image1:Per Albin Hansson - Sveriges styresmän.jpg
Leader1:Per Albin Hansson
Party1:Swedish Social Democratic Party
Last Election1:90
Seats1:104
Seat Change1:14
Popular Vote1:1,040,689
Percentage1:41.71%
Leader2:Arvid Lindman
Party2:Electoral League
Last Election2:73
Seats2:58
Seat Change2:15
Popular Vote2:585,248
Percentage2:23.46%
Image3:Olof Olsson 1859 SPA10 (cropped) bild.jpg
Leader3:Olof Olsson
Party3:Farmers' League
Last Election3:27
Seats3:36
Seat Change3:9
Popular Vote3:351,215
Percentage3:14.08%
Image4:Carl Gustaf Ekman.jpg
Leader4:Carl Gustaf Ekman
Party4:Free-minded National Association
Last Election4:28
Seats4:20
Seat Change4:8
Popular Vote4:244,577
Percentage4:9.80%
Image5:Nils Flyg.jpg
Leader5:Nils Flyg
Party5:Communist (Kilbommare)
Last Election5:
Seats5:6
Seat Change5:New
Popular Vote5:132,564
Percentage5:5.31%
Image6:Eliel Löfgren 1929.JPG
Leader6:Eliel Löfgren
Party6:Liberal Party of Sweden
Last Election6:4
Seats6:4
Popular Vote6:48,722
Percentage6:1.95%
Image7:Sven Linderot.jpg
Leader7:Sven Linderot
Party7:Communist (Sillénare)
Last Election7:8
Seats7:2
Seat Change7:6
Popular Vote7:74,245
Percentage7:2.98%
Prime Minister
Posttitle:PM-elect
Before Election:Felix Hamrin
Before Party:Free-minded National Association
After Election:Per Albin Hansson
After Party:Swedish Social Democratic Party

General elections were held in Sweden on 17 and 18 September 1932.[1] The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 104 of the 230 seats in the Andra kammaren of the Riksdag.[2] The party returned to government after six years in opposition, marking the beginning of 44 years of near-uninterrupted rule (the only exception was three months in 1936). This was also the first time the socialist parties received an overall majority of the elected parties' popular vote, although the Hansson cabinet still required cross-aisle co-operation to govern since the centre-right parties won 118 out of 230 seats.

Results

See main article: Results of the 1932 Swedish general election.

The Clerical People's Party, albeit a separate party, received 8,911 votes or 0.4% of the vote share, but had the votes re-assigned to the General Electoral League as a result of them forfeiting their votes out of tactical purposes and were listed as Electoral League or "Rightist" votes in the official final results.[3] No Clerical People's Party member got elected to the Riksdag, which meant the Electoral League covered the entire rightist delegation.[3] Therefore the General Electoral League may correctly be attributed to both 23.1% and 23.5% of the overall vote share.

Notes and References

  1. [Dieter Nohlen]
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1872
  3. Web site: Riksdagsmannavalen åren 1929-1932 av Statistiska centralbyrån - Valstatistik-Riksdagsmannavalen 1929-1930-1931-1932.pdf. sv. SCB. 14 April 2020.