Historical Swedish election results

Since the Swedish general election is taking place this weekend I wanted to take a look at historical election results to the Swedish Riksdag (the parliament). I have visualized the results in a stacked area chart together with voters turnout. The data has been collected from Statistiska centralbyrån (SCB), the Swedish government agency producing official statistics, and the website of the Swedish Government. Before 1970 the Swedish Riksdag had two chambers. The results shown are for the second chamber. Historical Riksdag election results (1911-2010) Votes [%] Show unstacked Year Year Government Voter Turnout [%]

As you can see from the graph, the national politics has been dominated by the Social Democrats since the 1930s. However, the last two elections have been won by a right-wing coalition between the Moderate Party, the Liberal People’s Party, the Centre Party and the Christian Democrat Party. The Sweden Democrats, a right-wing populist and anti-immigration party, has increased in popularity in recent years and first crossed the threshold necessary for parliamentary representation in the 2010 election. New Democracy, a populist party with a similar anti-immigration agenda was elected into the Riksdag in 1991 but quickly fell out again in 1994.

Voters turnout has varied between 80 and 90 % since the 1960s.

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