All 349 seats in the Riksdag 175 seats needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Ingvar Carlsson
Carl Bildt
Bengt Westerberg
Party
Social Democrats
Moderate
Liberal People's
Last election
156
66
44
Seats won
138
80
33
Seat change
18
14
11
Popular vote
2,062,761
1,199,394
499,356
Percentage
37.71%
21.92%
9.13%
Swing
5.50pp
3.62pp
3.07pp
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Leader
Olof Johansson
Alf Svensson
Ian Wachtmeister Bert Karlsson
Party
Centre
Christian Democrats
New Democracy
Last election
42
0
–
Seats won
31
26
25
Seat change
11
26
New
Popular vote
465,175
390,351
368,281
Percentage
8.50%
7.14%
6.73%
Swing
2.80pp
4.20pp
New
Seventh party
Leader
Lars Werner
Party
Left
Last election
21
Seats won
16
Seat change
5
Popular vote
246,905
Percentage
4.51%
Swing
1.33pp
Map of the election, showing the distribution of constituency and levelling seats, as well as the largest political bloc within each constituency.
Prime Minister before election
Ingvar Carlsson
Social Democrats
Elected Prime Minister
Carl Bildt
Moderate
General elections were held in Sweden on 15 September 1991.[1] The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in the Riksdag, winning 138 of the 349 seats.[2] However, it was the party's worst showing since 1928 with 37.7% of the vote.[3]
The election was notable due to the rise of a new right-wing populist party named New Democracy which succeeded in securing a parliamentary mandate for the first (and only) time. The four parties of the centre-right coalition (the Centre Party, People's Party, Moderates, and Christian Democrats) were allocated a combined total of 171 seats, 17 more than the two left-wing parties' 154, but still fewer than the 175 necessary for a majority. Thus the centre-right bloc was dependent upon New Democracy to secure a parliamentary majority. It was able to do so, and the Moderates' Carl Bildt became Prime Minister.
One large factor in the shift between the blocs was that the Christian Democrats managed to reach the 4% threshold by a good margin after many previous attempts. This combined with the Green Party falling short of the threshold, meant vast changes to areas yielding wins for the blue bloc. Norrköping, Västerås and Örebro, main urban areas inside the left-wing industrial belt of central Sweden, all voted blue for the first time for generations.[3] Even so, they did only assemble pluralities as opposed to majorities in all three. The centre-right bloc also made vast gains in the capital region, the Moderate Party being the largest both in Stockholm Municipality and the surrounding Stockholm County. Led by the strong Moderate vote, Malmö also flipped to a blue plurality, overturning another historical Social Democrat stronghold.
^Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^Nohlen & Stöver, p1873
^ ab"Allmänna valen 1991. Del 1, Riksdagsvalet den 15 september 1991" (PDF) (in Swedish). Statistical Central Bureau. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
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