| Country: | Sweden |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 1973 Swedish general election |
| Previous Year: | 1973 |
| Next Election: | 1979 Swedish general election |
| Next Year: | 1979 |
| Seats For Election: | All 349 seats in the Riksdag |
| Majority Seats: | 175 |
| Election Date: | 19 September 1976 |
| Image1: | Olof Palme 1974 (cropped).jpg |
| Leader1: | Olof Palme |
| Party1: | Swedish Social Democratic Party |
| Last Election1: | 156 |
| Seats1: | 152 |
| Seat Change1: | 4 |
| Popular Vote1: | 2,324,603 |
| Percentage1: | 42.75% |
| Swing1: | 0.81 pp |
| Leader2: | Thorbjörn Fälldin |
| Party2: | Centre Party (Sweden) |
| Last Election2: | 90 |
| Seats2: | 86 |
| Seat Change2: | 4 |
| Popular Vote2: | 1,309,669 |
| Percentage2: | 24.08% |
| Swing2: | 1.02 pp |
| Image3: | Gösta Bohman (1967).jpg |
| Leader3: | Gösta Bohman |
| Party3: | Moderate Party |
| Last Election3: | 51 |
| Seats3: | 55 |
| Seat Change3: | 4 |
| Popular Vote3: | 847,672 |
| Percentage3: | 15.59% |
| Swing3: | 1.30 pp |
| Image4: | Per Ahlmark, 2005.jpg |
| Leader4: | Per Ahlmark |
| Party4: | People's Party |
| Last Election4: | 34 |
| Seats4: | 39 |
| Seat Change4: | 5 |
| Popular Vote4: | 601,556 |
| Percentage4: | 11.06% |
| Swing4: | 1.64 pp |
| Image5: | Bundesarchiv Bild 183-N0701-023, Berlin, Erich Honecker, Lars Werner cropped.jpg |
| Leader5: | Lars Werner |
| Party5: | Left Communists |
| Last Election5: | 19 |
| Seats5: | 17 |
| Seat Change5: | 2 |
| Popular Vote5: | 258,432 |
| Percentage5: | 4.75% |
| Swing5: | 0.58 pp |
| PM | |
| Before Election: | Olof Palme |
| Before Party: | Swedish Social Democratic Party |
| After Election: | Thorbjörn Fälldin |
| After Party: | Centre Party (Sweden) |
General elections were held in Sweden on 19 September 1976.[1] Although the Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 152 of the 349 seats in the Riksdag,[2] a coalition government was formed with the Centre Party, the People's Party and the conservative Moderate Party (who won a combined 180 seats), which formed Sweden's first non-socialist government since 1936. Centre Party leader Thorbjörn Fälldin, who had widely been expected to take over the government in the previous election of 1973 (which turned out to bring a 175-175 draw between the left and right blocs), was appointed prime minister, the first not from the Swedish Social Democratic Party since Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp's brief interregnum 40 years earlier.
| 1976 Swedish general election debates | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Time | Organisers | Moderators | Present Invitee Non-invitee | ||||||
| S | C | M | L | V | Refs | |||||
| 1 September 1976 | P Olof Palme | P Thorbjörn Fälldin | N Gösta Bohman | N Per Ahlmark | N Lars Werner | |||||
| Sveriges Television | Lars Orup [sv] | P Olof Palme,Gunnar Sträng | P Thorbjörn Fälldin | P Gösta Bohman | P Per Ahlmark | P Lars Werner | ||||
See main article: Results of the 1976 Swedish general election.
| Constituency | Total seats | Seats won | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| By party | By coalition | |||||||||
| S | C | M | F | V | ||||||
| Älvsborg North | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | |||
| Älvsborg South | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | |||
| Blekinge | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | |||
| Bohus | 11 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | |||
| Fyrstadskretsen | 19 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 10 | ||
| Gävleborg | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | ||
| Gothenburg | 19 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 9 | ||
| Gotland | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Halland | 9 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | |||
| Jämtland | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | |||||
| Jönköping | 13 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | |||
| Kalmar | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | |||
| Kopparberg | 13 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | ||
| Kristianstad | 12 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | |||
| Kronoberg | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | ||||
| Malmöhus | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | |||
| Norrbotten | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | ||
| Örebro | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | |||
| Östergötland | 18 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 9 | ||
| Skaraborg | 11 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | |||
| Södermanland | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||
| Stockholm County | 33 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 15 | ||
| Stockholm Municipality | 32 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 16 | ||
| Uppsala | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Värmland | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | |||
| Västerbotten | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | |||
| Västernorrland | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | |||
| Västmanland | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||
| Total | 349 | 152 | 86 | 55 | 39 | 17 | 180 | 169 | ||
| Source: Statistics Sweden | ||||||||||