Country: | Sweden |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | March 1914 Swedish general election |
Previous Year: | March 1914 |
Next Election: | 1917 Swedish general election |
Next Year: | 1917 |
Seats For Election: | All 230 seats in the Andra kammaren |
Election Date: | 5 September 1914 |
Image1: | Hjalmar branting stor bild.jpg |
Leader1: | Hjalmar Branting |
Party1: | Swedish Social Democratic Party |
Last Election1: | 73 |
Seats1: | 87 |
Seat Change1: | 13 |
Popular Vote1: | 266,133 |
Percentage1: | 36.39% |
Leader2: | Arvid Lindman |
Party2: | Electoral League |
Last Election2: | 86 |
Seats2: | 86 |
Popular Vote2: | 267,124 |
Percentage2: | 36.52% |
Image3: | Axel Schotte 1928.JPG |
Leader3: | Axel Schotte |
Party3: | Free-minded National Association |
Last Election3: | 71 |
Seats3: | 57 |
Seat Change3: | 13 |
Popular Vote3: | 196,493 |
Percentage3: | 26.87% |
Prime Minister | |
Posttitle: | PM-elect |
Before Election: | Hjalmar Hammarskjöld |
Before Party: | General Electoral League |
After Election: | Hjalmar Hammarskjöld |
After Party: | General Electoral League |
Early general elections were held in Sweden 5 and 13 September 1914, the second that year.[1] [2] Although the General Electoral League received the most votes,[3] the Swedish Social Democratic Party emerged as the largest party, winning 87 of the 230 seats in the Andra kammaren,[4] and have managed to remain so in every subsequent Swedish election.
See main article: Results of the September 1914 Swedish general election. The General Electoral League and Farmers' League had a tactical arrangement that saw all the votes for the latter land as Electoral League in the constituencies.[2] Therefore, the Electoral League may correctly also be attributed 268,631 votes or 36.7%.[2]