All 349 seats in the Riksdag 175 seats needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Olof Palme
Gösta Bohman
Thorbjörn Fälldin
Party
Social Democrats
Moderate
Centre
Last election
152
55
86
Seats won
154
73
64
Seat change
2
18
22
Popular vote
2,356,234
1,108,406
984,589
Percentage
43.24%
20.34%
18.07%
Swing
0.49pp
4.75pp
6.01pp
Fourth party
Fifth party
Leader
Ola Ullsten
Lars Werner
Party
People's Party
Left Communists
Last election
39
17
Seats won
38
20
Seat change
1
3
Popular vote
577,063
305,420
Percentage
10.59%
5.61%
Swing
0.47pp
0.86pp
Map of the election, showing the distribution of constituency and levelling seats, as well as the largest political bloc within each constituency.
PM before election
Ola Ullsten
People's Party
Elected PM
Thorbjörn Fälldin
Centre
General elections were held in Sweden on 16 September 1979.[1] Although the Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 154 of the 349 seats in the Riksdag,[2] the liberal interim government of Ola Ullsten was succeeded by another centre-right coalition government composed of the People's Party, the Moderate Party and the Centre Party, led by Centre Party leader Thorbjörn Fälldin. The three parties together won 175 seats, compared to the 174 won by the Social Democrats and Communists. It was the only time that non-socialist parties retained power in an election between 1928 and 2010. The Moderates dramatically increased their representation in the Riksdag, becoming the largest party of the non-socialist bloc, a position they maintained until 2022.
Despite the unexpected victory, the coalition split in 1981 when the Moderates withdrew support in protest at Fälldin's tax policies, which they viewed as "too leftist". Despite not being the leader of the coalition party with the most seats, Fälldin had been the designate Prime Minister since his earlier resignation in 1978, upon disagreement over the question of nuclear power.
^Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^Nohlen & Stöver, p1873
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