Country: | Sweden |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1948 Swedish general election |
Previous Year: | 1948 |
Next Election: | 1956 Swedish general election |
Next Year: | 1956 |
Seats For Election: | All 230 seats in the Andra kammaren of the Riksdag |
Majority Seats: | 116 |
Election Date: | 21 September 1952 |
Image1: | Tage Erlander 1952.jpg |
Leader1: | Tage Erlander |
Party1: | Swedish Social Democratic Party |
Last Election1: | 112 |
Seats1: | 110 |
Seat Change1: | 2 |
Popular Vote1: | 1,742,284 |
Percentage1: | 46.05% |
Leader2: | Bertil Ohlin |
Party2: | People's Party |
Last Election2: | 57 |
Seats2: | 58 |
Seat Change2: | 1 |
Popular Vote2: | 924,819 |
Percentage2: | 24.44% |
Image3: | Hjalmarson (2).JPG |
Leader3: | Jarl Hjalmarson |
Party3: | Right Party |
Last Election3: | 23 |
Seats3: | 31 |
Seat Change3: | 8 |
Popular Vote3: | 543,825 |
Percentage3: | 14.37% |
Image4: | Gunnar Hedlund 1951.jpg |
Leader4: | Gunnar Hedlund |
Party4: | Farmers' League |
Last Election4: | 30 |
Seats4: | 26 |
Seat Change4: | 4 |
Popular Vote4: | 406,183 |
Percentage4: | 10.74% |
Image5: | Hilding Hagberg-2.jpg |
Leader5: | Hilding Hagberg |
Party5: | Communist |
Last Election5: | 8 |
Seats5: | 5 |
Seat Change5: | 3 |
Popular Vote5: | 164,194 |
Percentage5: | 4.34% |
Prime Minister | |
Before Election: | Tage Erlander |
Before Party: | Swedish Social Democratic Party |
After Election: | Tage Erlander |
After Party: | Swedish Social Democratic Party |
General elections were held in Sweden on 21 September 1952.[1] The Social Democrats remained the largest party with 110 of the 230 seats in the Andra kammaren of the Riksdag and together with the Communist Party of Sweden they got 115 seats and the other parties 115 seats.[2] Tage Erlander and his Social Democratic Party did however form his second government with the Farmers' League already in 1951 and together with that party the Social Democrats now had a majority of 136 seats in the chamber and together with the Communists 141 seats. In the other indirectly elected chamber the Social Democrats had an absolute majority.
The Catalina affair had taken place a few months prior to the election and was highly debated during the time.
See main article: Results of the 1952 Swedish general election.