1917 Swedish general election

1917 Swedish general election
1 September 1917
All 230 seats in the Andra kammaren
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Hjalmar Branting Daniel Persson Arvid Lindman
Party Social Democrats Free-minded Electoral League
Last election 87 57 86
Seats won 86 62 59
Seat change 1 5 27
Popular vote 228,777 202,936 182,070
Percentage 31.08% 27.57% 24.74%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Zeth Höglund Erik Eriksson
Party SSV Farmers' League National Farmers'
Last election – 0 –
Seats won 11 9 3
Seat change New 9 New
Popular vote 59,243 39,262 22,659
Percentage 8.05% 5.33% 3.08%
Prime Minister before election

Carl Swartz
Electoral League

 PM-elect

Nils Edén
Free-minded

General elections were held in Sweden between 1 and 16 September 1917. The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 86 of the 230 seats in the Andra kammaren of the Riksdag. As a result the Rightist Prime Minister Carl Swartz resigned the premiership and was replaced by Liberal leader Nils Edén.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.