Swedish general election, 1968

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Elections to the second chamber of the Riksdag held September 15, 1968.

Party Leader Votes Seats
Count +− % Count +−
  Social Democrats Tage Erlander 2 420 242 50,1 +2,8 125 +12
  Centre Party Gunnar Hedlund 779 818 15,7 +2,5 39 +3
  People's Party Sven Wedén 724 859 14,3 −2,7 34 −9
  Rightist Party Yngve Holmberg 670 532 12,9 −0,8 32 −1
  Left Party - Communists C.-H. Hermansson 145 172 3,0 −2,2 3 −5
  Christian Democratic Unity Birger Ekstedt 72 411 1,5 −0,3 0 +− 0
  Others1 ? 2,6
No. of valid votes ? 100,00   233  
Invalid votes ?  
Total (postal votes: 278 743) 4 861 901
(89,3 %)

1'Others' consists mainly of electoral collaboration between Liberals, Centre and Right-wing (1.7 %) or collaboration Liberal and Centre (0.9 %).


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