| Country: | Sweden |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 1985 Swedish general election |
| Previous Year: | 1985 |
| Next Election: | 1991 Swedish general election |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
| Seats For Election: | All 349 seats in the Riksdag |
| Majority Seats: | 175 |
| Election Date: | 18 September 1988 |
| Image1: | Ingvar Carlsson.jpg |
| Leader1: | Ingvar Carlsson |
| Party1: | Swedish Social Democratic Party |
| Last Election1: | 159 |
| Seats1: | 156 |
| Seat Change1: | 3 |
| Popular Vote1: | 2,321,826 |
| Percentage1: | 43.21% |
| Swing1: | 1.67pp |
| Leader2: | Carl Bildt |
| Party2: | Moderate Party |
| Last Election2: | 76 |
| Seats2: | 66 |
| Seat Change2: | 10 |
| Popular Vote2: | 983,226 |
| Percentage2: | 18.30% |
| Swing2: | 3.33pp |
| Leader3: | Bengt Westerberg |
| Image3: | Bengt Westerberg2.jpg |
| Party3: | People's Party |
| Popular Vote3: | 655,720 |
| Percentage3: | 12.20% |
| Seats3: | 44 |
| Last Election3: | 51 |
| Seat Change3: | 7 |
| Swing3: | 2.23pp |
| Image4: | Olof Johansson2.jpg |
| Leader4: | Olof Johansson |
| Party4: | Centre Party (Sweden) |
| Popular Vote4: | 607,240 |
| Percentage4: | 11.30% |
| Seats4: | 42 |
| Last Election4: | 43 |
| Seat Change4: | 1 |
| Swing4: | 2.48pp |
| Image5: | Bundesarchiv Bild 183-N0701-023, Berlin, Erich Honecker, Lars Werner cropped.jpg |
| Leader5: | Lars Werner |
| Party5: | Left Communists |
| Popular Vote5: | 314,031 |
| Percentage5: | 5.84% |
| Seats5: | 21 |
| Last Election5: | 19 |
| Seat Change5: | 2 |
| Swing5: | 0.48pp |
| Image6: | |
| Leader6: | Eva Goës Birger Schlaug |
| Party6: | Green Party (Sweden) |
| Popular Vote6: | 296,935 |
| Percentage6: | 5.53% |
| Seats6: | 20 |
| Last Election6: | 0 |
| Seat Change6: | 20 |
| Swing6: | 4.03pp |
| PM | |
| Before Election: | Ingvar Carlsson |
| Before Party: | Swedish Social Democratic Party |
| After Election: | Ingvar Carlsson |
| After Party: | Swedish Social Democratic Party |
General elections were held in Sweden on 18 September 1988.[1] The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in the Riksdag, winning 156 of the 349 seats.[2]
See main article: Results of the 1988 Swedish general election.
| Constituency | Total seats | Seats won | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| By party | By coalition | |||||||||||
| S | M | F | C | V | MP | |||||||
| Älvsborg North | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | |||
| Älvsborg South | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Blekinge | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | ||||||
| Bohus | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | ||
| Fyrstadskretsen | 20 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 2 | ||
| Gävleborg | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | ||
| Gothenburg | 19 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 2 | ||
| Gotland | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Halland | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | |||
| Jämtland | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
| Jönköping | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | |||||
| Kalmar | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | |||||
| Kopparberg | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | ||
| Kristianstad | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | |||
| Kronoberg | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Malmöhus | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 1 | |||
| Norrbotten | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | ||||
| Örebro | 11 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | ||||
| Östergötland | 17 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 1 | ||
| Skaraborg | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | |||
| Södermanland | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | |||||
| Stockholm County | 37 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 18 | 3 | ||
| Stockholm Municipality | 30 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 2 | ||
| Uppsala | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | ||
| Värmland | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | ||||
| Västerbotten | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | ||||
| Västernorrland | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | ||
| Västmanland | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | ||||
| Total | 349 | 156 | 66 | 44 | 42 | 21 | 20 | 177 | 152 | 20 | ||
| Source: Statistics Sweden | ||||||||||||