1948 Swedish general election

none Sweden parliamentary 1944 Swedish general election 1944 1952 Swedish general election 1952 All 230 seats in the Andra kammaren of the Riksdag 116 19 September 1948 130x130px Tage Erlander 1952.jpg Tage Erlander Swedish Social Democratic Party 115 112 3 1,789,459 46.1% Bertil Ohlin.jpg Bertil Ohlin People's Party 26 57 31 882,437 22.7% Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp portrait.webp Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp Farmers' League 35 30 5 480,421 12.4% Fritiof Domö 1959.JPG Fritiof Domö Right 39 23 16 478,786 12.3% Sven Linderot.jpg Sven Linderot Communist 15 8 7 244,826 6.3% PM Tage Erlander Swedish Social Democratic Party Tage Erlander Swedish Social Democratic Party Riksdagsvalet 1948.svg Largest bloc and seats won by constituency General elections were held in Sweden on 19 September 1948.Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 978-3-8329-5609-7 Despite a campaign by a large part of the Swedish press against socializing insurances, controlled foreign trade and rationing regulations still in use since the war, freshman Prime Minister and Social Democratic leader Tage Erlander managed to defeat the People's Party-led opposition under Bertil Ohlin by a higher election turnout. He maintained his government with only minor losses and the Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 112 of the 230 seats in the Andra kammaren of the Riksdag.Nohlen & Stöver, p1872 Erlander was to stay on as Prime Minister until 1969. The election has been described as "one of the fiercest ever" by Rikard Westerberg.Dahl Svend 2022-08-18 SMEDJAN Valet då näringsfriheten stod på spel https://timbro.se/smedjan/valet-da-naringsfriheten-stod-pa-spel/ 2024-10-22 Timbro sv-SE The election dealt mostly with the freedom of the business community. Tage Erlander described the ferocity of the election in his memoirs, writing, "the political battle also became more focused on individuals than we were used to in Sweden. And it was crazy personal attacks!". According to Westerberg, the block opposing the social democrats thought the Social democrats will tighten control over business freedoms, will lead to mismangment and "economic dictatorship". The social democrats accused the opposition head, Bertil Ohlin of being a servant to the business community. Westerberg writes that the election was also defined by Russian expansionism as the Russian backed communists seized power through a coup d'état in Czechoslovakia in February 1948, while Sweden declared neutrality in the Cold war the very same month.Berglund Sten Thomsen SöRen Risbjerg WöRlund Ingemar June 1991 The mobilization of the Swedish vote: An ecological analysis of the general elections of 1928, 1948 and 1968 https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-6765.1991.tb01195.x European Journal of Political Research en 19 4 413–424 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1991.tb01195.x 0304-4130 subscription At the same time, the Swedish economy was enjoying significant expansion thanks to American investment through the Marshall plan. Results Results of the 1948 Swedish general election File:Sweden_Riksdag_1948.svg Swedish Social Democratic Party 1789459 112 –3 People's Party 882437 57 +31 Farmers' League 480421 30 –5 National Organisation of the Right 478786 23 –16 Communist Party 244826 8 –7 Left Socialist Party 2943 0 0 Other parties 119 0 0 16170 0 4707783 Nohlen & Stöver, SCB References Category:General elections in Sweden Sweden General Sweden Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results