1905 Swedish general election

none Sweden parliamentary 1902 Swedish general election 1902 1908 Swedish general election 1908 All 230 seats in the Andra kammaren September 1905 x160px Karl_Staaff.jpg Karl Staaff Free-minded National Association 109 98,287 45.23% Christian Lundeberg.jpg Christian Lundeberg Electoral League 108 98,359 45.26% Claes Tholin.jpg Claes Tholin Swedish Social Democratic Party 13 20,677 9.51% PM PM-elect Christian Lundeberg General Electoral League Karl Staaff Free-minded National Association General elections were held in Sweden in September 1905.Leif Lewin (1989) Ideology and Strategy: A Century of Swedish Politics Cambridge University Press, p329 The General Electoral League received the most votes but won one less seat than the Free-minded National Association. This incongruency helped lay the base for a switch to proportional representation in 1907.Kreuzer Marcus Neely Runa Sweden’s Peculiar Adoption of Proportional Representation: The Overlooked Effects of Time and History Perspectives on Politics Cambridge University Press 13 May 2024 10.1017/S153759272400063X free Results Only 31% of the male population aged over 21 was eligible to vote. Voter turnout was 50.4%, the first time it had ever been higher than 50%. File:Sweden Riksdag 1905.svg General Electoral League 98359 108 –11 Free-minded National Association 98287 109 +2 Swedish Social Democratic Party 20677 13 +9 0 432099 Mackie & RoseThomas T Mackie & Richard Rose (1991) The International Almanac of Electoral History, Macmillan, pp404–406 References Sweden General Category:General elections in Sweden Sweden