1905 Swedish general election
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General elections were held in Sweden in September 1905.[1]
The General Electoral League received the most votes but won one less seat than the Free-minded National Association. This incongruency helped lay the base for a switch to proportional representation in 1907.[2]
Results
[edit]Only 31% of the male population aged over 21 was eligible to vote.[1] Voter turnout was 50.4%, the first time it had ever been higher than 50%.[1]
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| General Electoral League | 98,359 | 45.26 | 108 | –11 | |
| Free-minded National Association | 98,287 | 45.23 | 109 | +2 | |
| Swedish Social Democratic Party | 20,677 | 9.51 | 13 | +9 | |
| Total | 217,323 | 100.00 | 230 | 0 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 432,099 | – | |||
| Source: Mackie & Rose[3] | |||||
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Leif Lewin (1989) Ideology and Strategy: A Century of Swedish Politics Cambridge University Press, p329
- ^ Kreuzer, Marcus; Neely, Runa (13 May 2024), "Sweden's Peculiar Adoption of Proportional Representation: The Overlooked Effects of Time and History", Perspectives on Politics, Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/S153759272400063X
- ^ Thomas T Mackie & Richard Rose (1991) The International Almanac of Electoral History, Macmillan, pp404–406
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