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1976 Swedish general election

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Field	Value
country	Sweden
type	parliamentary
previous_election	1973 Swedish general election
previous_year	1973
next_election	1979 Swedish general election
next_year	1979
seats_for_election	All 349 seats in the Riksdag
majority_seats	175
election_date	19 September 1976
image_size	130x130px
image1	Olof Palme 1974 (cropped).jpg
leader1	Olof Palme
party1	Swedish Social Democratic Party
last_election1	156
seats1	152
seat_change1	4
popular_vote1	2,324,603
percentage1	42.75%
swing1	0.81 pp
image2	Falldin.JPG
leader2	Thorbjörn Fälldin
party2	Centre Party (Sweden)
last_election2	90
seats2	86
seat_change2	4
popular_vote2	1,309,669
percentage2	24.08%
swing2	1.02 pp
image3	Gösta Bohman (1967).jpg
leader3	Gösta Bohman
party3	Moderate Party
last_election3	51
seats3	55
seat_change3	4
popular_vote3	847,672
percentage3	15.59%
swing3	1.30 pp
image4	Per Ahlmark, 2005.jpg
leader4	Per Ahlmark
party4	People's Party
last_election4	34
seats4	39
seat_change4	5
popular_vote4	601,556
percentage4	11.06%
swing4	1.64 pp
image5	Bundesarchiv Bild 183-N0701-023, Berlin, Erich Honecker, Lars Werner cropped.jpg
leader5	Lars Werner
party5	Left Communists
last_election5	19
seats5	17
seat_change5	2
popular_vote5	258,432
percentage5	4.75%
swing5	0.58 pp
title	PM
before_election	Olof Palme
before_party	Swedish Social Democratic Party
after_election	Thorbjörn Fälldin
after_party	Centre Party (Sweden)
map_image	Riksdagsvalet 1976.svg
map_caption	Map of the election, showing the distribution of constituency and levelling seats, as well as the largest political bloc within each constituency.

General elections were held in Sweden on 19 September 1976. Although the Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 152 of the 349 seats in the Riksdag, a coalition government was formed with the Centre Party, the People's Party and the conservative Moderate Party (who won a combined 180 seats), which formed Sweden's first non-socialist government since 1936. Centre Party leader Thorbjörn Fälldin, who had widely been expected to take over the government in the previous election of 1973 (which turned out to bring a 175-175 draw between the left and right blocs), was appointed prime minister, the first not from the Swedish Social Democratic Party since Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp's brief interregnum 40 years earlier.

Debates

1976 Swedish general election debates	Date	Time	Organisers	Moderators
1 September 1976				P
Olof Palme	P
Thorbjörn Fälldin	N
Gösta Bohman	N
Per Ahlmark	N
Lars Werner
		Sveriges Television	Lars Orup [sv]	P
Olof Palme, Gunnar Sträng	P
Thorbjörn Fälldin	P
Gösta Bohman	P
Per Ahlmark	P
Lars Werner

Results

Main article: Results of the 1976 Swedish general election

Seat distribution

Constituency	Total
seats	Seats won	By party	By coalition	S	C	M	F	V	Right	Left	Swedish Social Democratic Party}};"	Centre Party (Sweden)}};"	Moderate Party}};"	Liberals (Sweden)}};"	Left Party (Sweden)}};;"	Centre Party (Sweden)}};"	Swedish Social Democratic Party}};"	Älvsborg North	9	Älvsborg South	8	Blekinge	7	Bohus	11	Fyrstadskretsen	19	Gävleborg	13	Gothenburg	19	Gotland	2	Halland	9	Jämtland	5	Jönköping	13	Kalmar	11	Kopparberg	13	Kristianstad	12	Kronoberg	7	Malmöhus	11	Norrbotten	12	Örebro	11	Östergötland	18	Skaraborg	11	Södermanland	9	Stockholm County	33	Stockholm Municipality	32	Uppsala	10	Värmland	12	Västerbotten	10	Västernorrland	13	Västmanland	9	Total	349	152	86	55	39	17	180	169
4	3	1	1		5	4
3	2	2	1		5	3
3	2	1	1		4	3
4	3	2	2		7	4
9	3	4	2	1	9	10
6	3	1	1	2	5	8
7	3	3	4	2	10	9
1	1				1	1
3	3	2	1		6	3
3	2				2	3
5	4	2	2		8	5
5	3	2	1		6	5
6	4	1	1	1	6	7
5	4	2	1		7	5
3	3	1			4	3
5	3	2	1		6	5
6	2	1	1	2	4	8
6	3	1	1		5	6
8	4	3	2	1	9	9
4	4	2	1		7	4
5	2	1	1		4	5
12	6	7	5	3	18	15
12	4	8	4	4	16	16
4	3	1	1	1	5	5
6	3	2	1		6	6
5	3	1	1		5	5
7	4	1	1		6	7
5	2	1	1		4	5
Source: Statistics Sweden

By municipality

Image:Sweden.1976.coalition.largest.map.svg|Votes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes within the coalition that won relative majority. Some municipalities have been split since 1976, so may be different to apparent results. Image:Sweden.1976.coalition.largest.cart.svg|Cartogram of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast. Image:Sweden.1973.to.1976.coalition.voting.shift.map.svg|Map showing the voting shifts from the 1973 to the 1976 election. Darker blue indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that formed the centre-right bloc. Darker red indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that form the left-wing bloc. Image:Sweden.1976.coalition.purple.map.svg|Votes by municipality as a scale from red/Left-wing bloc to blue/Centre-right bloc. Image:Sweden.1976.coalition.purple.cart.svg|Cartogram of vote with each municipality rescaled in proportion to number of valid votes cast. Deeper blue represents a relative majority for the centre-right coalition, brighter red represents a relative majority for the left-wing coalition.

References

[[Dieter Nohlen. Nohlen, D]] & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1858 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
Nohlen & Stöver, p1873
"Valet 1976 - Duellen - Olof Palme (S) och Thorbjörn Fälldin (C)".
Sweden, Sveriges Television AB, Stockholm. "Slutdebatter – Partiledardebatt".

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