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.
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.