1952 Swedish general election

none Sweden parliamentary 1948 Swedish general election 1948 1956 Swedish general election 1956 All 230 seats in the Andra kammaren of the Riksdag 116 21 September 1952 130x130px Tage Erlander 1952.jpg Tage Erlander Swedish Social Democratic Party 112 110 2 1,742,284 46.05% Bertil Ohlin.jpg Bertil Ohlin People's Party 57 58 1 924,819 24.44% Hjalmarson (2).JPG Jarl Hjalmarson Right Party 23 31 8 543,825 14.37% Gunnar Hedlund 1951.jpg Gunnar Hedlund Farmers' League 30 26 4 406,183 10.74% Hilding Hagberg-2.jpg Hilding Hagberg Communist 8 5 3 164,194 4.34% Prime Minister Tage Erlander Swedish Social Democratic Party Tage Erlander Swedish Social Democratic Party Riksdagsvalet 1952.svg Largest bloc and seats won by constituency General elections were held in Sweden on 21 September 1952.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 978-3-8329-5609-7 The Social Democrats remained the largest party with 110 of the 230 seats in the Andra kammaren of the Riksdag and together with the Communist Party of Sweden they got 115 seats and the other parties 115 seats.Nohlen & Stöver, p1872 Tage Erlander and his Social Democratic Party did however form his second government with the Farmers' League already in 1951 and together with that party the Social Democrats now had a majority of 136 seats in the chamber and together with the Communists 141 seats. In the other indirectly elected chamber the Social Democrats had an absolute majority. The Catalina affair had taken place a few months prior to the election and was highly debated during the time. Results Results of the 1952 Swedish general election File:Sweden_Riksdag_1952.svg Swedish Social Democratic Party 1742284 110 –2 People's Party 924819 58 +1 Right Party 543825 31 +8 Farmers' League 406183 26 –4 Communist Party 164194 5 –3 Left Socialist Party 2302 0 0 Other parties 100 0 0 17577 0 4805216 Nohlen & Stöver References Category:General elections in Sweden Sweden General Sweden Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results