1988 Swedish general election
1988 election for the Swedish parliament
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 Map of the election, showing the distribution of constituency and levelling seats, as well as the largest political bloc within each constituency. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
Debates
| 1988 Swedish general election debates | |||||||||
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| Date | Time | Organizers | Moderators | P Present I Invitee N Non-invitee | |||||
| S | M | L | C | V | Refs | ||||
| Sveriges Television | Gösta Spjuth [sv] Maud Zachrisson | P Ingvar Carlsson,Kjell-Olof Feldt | P Carl Bildt | P Bengt Westerber | P Olof Johansson | P Lars Werner | [3] | ||
Results
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Swedish Social Democratic Party | 2,321,826 | 43.21 | 156 | –3 | |
| Moderate Party | 983,226 | 18.30 | 66 | –10 | |
| People's Party | 655,720 | 12.20 | 44 | –7 | |
| Centre Party | 607,240 | 11.30 | 42 | –1 | |
| Left Party Communists | 314,031 | 5.84 | 21 | +2 | |
| Green Party | 296,935 | 5.53 | 20 | +20 | |
| Christian Democratic Society Party | 158,182 | 2.94 | 0 | –1 | |
| Other parties | 36,559 | 0.68 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 5,373,719 | 100.00 | 349 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 5,373,719 | 98.76 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 67,331 | 1.24 | |||
| Total votes | 5,441,050 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 6,330,023 | 85.96 | |||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver | |||||
Seat distribution
| Constituency | Total seats | Seats won | |||||||||
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| By party | By coalition | ||||||||||
| S | M | F | C | V | MP | Left | Right | Others | |||
| 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 | |||||||||||
By municipality
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Votes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes within the coalition that won relative majority. -
Cartogram of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast. -
Map showing the voting shifts from the 1985 to the 1988 election. Darker blue indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that formed the centre-right bloc. Darker red indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that form the left-wing bloc. -
Votes by municipality as a scale from red/Left-wing bloc to blue/Centre-right bloc. -
Cartogram of vote with each municipality rescaled in proportion to number of valid votes cast. Deeper blue represents a relative majority for the centre-right coalition, brighter red represents a relative majority for the left-wing coalition.
References
- ^ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1873
- ^ Sweden, Sveriges Television AB, Stockholm, Slutdebatter – Val-88: Riksdagspartiernas slutdebatt (in Swedish), retrieved 2024-02-01
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