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Swedish general election, 1991

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All 349 seats to the Riksdag
First party Second party Third party   Leader Carl Bildt Ingvar Carlsson Ian Wachtmeister Party Moderate Social Democrats New Democracy Alliance Centre-Right Left-wing Independent Last election 169 seats 197 seats New Party Seats won 171 154 24 Seat change +19 -43 +24 Popular vote 2,554,276 2,494,717 368,281 Percentage 45.9 44.8 6.73
Prime Minister before election Ingvar Carlsson Social Democrats Elected Prime Minister Carl Bildt Moderate

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Election to the Parliament of Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges riksdag) was held on September 15, 1991. The election, like all parliamentary elections in Sweden, was conducted using a party-list proportional representation system.

The election was notable due to the rise of a new right-wing party named New Democracy (Sweden) which succeeded in securing a parliamentary mandate for the first (and last) time. The four parties of the centre-right coalition (the Centre Party, People's Party, Moderate Party, and Christian Democrats) were allocated a combined total of 171 seats, 17 more than the two left-wing parties' 154, but still less than the 175 necessary for a majority. Thus the centre-right bloc was dependent upon New Democracy to secure a parliamentary majority.

Results

Party		Leader	Votes			Seats
			Antal	%	+− %	Antal	+−
	Social Democrats Socialdemokraterna (s)	Ingvar Carlsson	2,062,761	37.71%	−5.5%	138	−18
	Moderate Party Moderaterna (m)	Carl Bildt	1,199,394	21.92%	+3.62%	80	+14
	Liberal People's Party Folkpartiet (fp)	Bengt Westerberg	499,356	9.12%	−3.08%	33	−11
	Centre Party Centerpartiet (c)	Olof Johansson	465,175	8.50%	−2.80%	31	−11
	Christian Democratic Social Party Kristdemokraterna (kd)	Alf Svensson	390,351	7.14%	+4.20%	27	+27
	New Democracy Ny Demokrati (NyD)	Ian Wachtmeister	368,281	6.73%	+6.73%	24	+24
	Left Party Vänsterpartiet (v)	Lars Werner	246,905	4.51%	−1.33%	16	−5
	Green Party Miljöpartiet (mp)	Jan Axelsson and Margareta Gisselberg	185,051	3.38%	−2.15%	0	−20
	Others	—	53,487	0.98%	—	—	—
No. of valid votes			5,470,761	—		349
Invalid votes			92,159
	Centre-right bloc Moderates, People's Party, Centre Party, Christian Democrats		2,554,276	45.9%	+1.7%	171	+19
	Left-wing bloc Social Democrats, Left Party, Green Party		2,494,717	44.8%	−9.1%	154	−43
Total			5 562 920 (86,7 %)

• Votes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes within the coalition that won relative majority.
• Cartogram of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast.
• Map showing the voting shifts from the 1988 to the 1991 election. Darker blue indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that formed the centre-right bloc. Darker red indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that form the left-wing bloc.
• Votes by municipality as a scale from red/Left-wing bloc to blue/Centre-right bloc.
• Cartogram of vote with each municipality rescaled in proportion to number of valid votes cast. Deeper blue represents a relative majority for the centre-right coalition, brighter red represents a relative majority for the left-wing coalition.

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