All 349 seats in the Riksdag 175 seats needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Olof Palme
Ulf Adelsohn
Thorbjörn Fälldin
Party
Social Democrats
Moderate
Centre
Last election
154
73
64
Seats won
166
86
56
Seat change
12
13
8
Popular vote
2,533,250
1,313,337
859,618
Percentage
45.61%
23.64%
15.48%
Swing
2.37pp
3.30pp
2.59pp
Fourth party
Fifth party
Leader
Ola Ullsten
Lars Werner
Party
People's Party
Left Communists
Last election
38
20
Seats won
21
20
Seat change
17
Popular vote
327 770
308,899
Percentage
5.90%
5.56%
Swing
4.69pp
0.05pp
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
Thorbjörn Fälldin
Centre
Elected PM
Olof Palme
Social Democrats
General elections were held in Sweden on 19 September 1982.[1] They saw the return of the Swedish Social Democratic Party to power after six years in opposition, the longest period in opposition by the Social Democrats since the 1910s. The center-right coalition of Thorbjörn Fälldin had earlier suffered a loss upon the breakup of the government in 1981, the year before the election, when the rightist Moderate Party chose to withdraw from the government, protesting against the centrist tax policies of the Fälldin government. After regaining power, Social Democratic leader Olof Palme succeeded in being elected Prime Minister again, having earlier held power between 1969 and 1976.
The 2,533,250 votes for the Social Democrats is, in spite of a larger electorate, as of 2022 the highest number of people voting for a single party in Swedish electoral history, although the party had previously recorded higher percentage shares.
^Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
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