1920 Swedish general election

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All 230 seats in the Riksdag
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Hjalmar Branting Arvid Lindman Raoul Hamilton
Party Social Democratic Electoral League Free-minded National
Last election 86 59 62
Seats won 75 71 47
Seat change Decrease11 Increase12 Decrease15
Popular vote 195,121 183,019 143,355
Percentage 29.65% 27.81% 21.78%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
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Leader Johan Andersson Zeth Höglund
Party Farmers' League National Farmers' SSV
Last election 9 3 11
Seats won 20 10 7
Seat change Increase9 Increase5 Decrease4
Popular vote 52,318 40,623 42,056
Percentage 7.95% 6.17% 6.39%

Prime Minister before election

Hjalmar Branting
Social Democratic

PM-elect

Louis de Geer
Independent

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General elections were held in Sweden between 4 and 17 September 1920,[1] the last before universal suffrage was introduced the following year.[2] The Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 75 of the 230 seats in the Second Chamber of the Riksdag.[3] Later in October 1920 Hjalmar Branting was succeeded as prime minister by Baron Louis De Geer.

Results

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References

  1. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1853
  3. Nohlen & Stöver, p1871