Swedish general election, 1956

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16 September 1956

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All 231 seats to the Second Chamber of the Riksdag
116 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Tage Erlander	Bertil Ohlin	Jarl Hjalmarson
Party	Social Democratic	People's	Rightist
Last election	110	58	31
Seats won	106	58	41
Seat change	4	0	11
Popular vote	1,729,463	923,564	663 693
Percentage	44.6%	23.8%	17.1%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Gunnar Hedlund	Hilding Hagberg
Party	Farmers' League	Communist
Last election	26	5
Seats won	19	6
Seat change	7	1
Popular vote	366,612	194,016
Percentage	9.5%	5.0%

PM before election

Tage Erlander
Social Democratic

Elected PM

Tage Erlander
Social Democratic

General elections were held in Sweden on 16 September 1956. The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 106 of the 231 seats in the Second Chamber of the Riksdag. A Social Democratic-Farmers' League coalition government was formed by Prime Minister Tage Erlander after the election with 125 of the total of 231 seats. Although the non-socialist parties held a majority in the Second Chamber, the Social Democrats held a majority in the First Chamber, so a non-socialist government could not be formed. The Social Democrats and the Farmers' League would later split due to disagreements over the pensions system in 1957, leading to the formation of Tage Erlander's third government and a snap election in 1958.

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