Swedish general election, 1928
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Elections to the second chamber of the Riksdag
Parliament of Sweden
The Riksdag is the national legislative assembly of Sweden. The riksdag is a unicameral assembly with 349 members , who are elected on a proportional basis to serve fixed terms of four years...
were held 15 September–21 September 1928. This election is often called the "Cossack
Cossack
Cossacks are a group of predominantly East Slavic people who originally were members of democratic, semi-military communities in what is today Ukraine and Southern Russia inhabiting sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper and Don basins and who played an important role in the...
Election" due to the harsh tone and aggressive criticism on both sides.
| Party | Leader | Votes | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | ± % | Number | ± | |||
| Social Democrats | Per Albin Hansson Per Albin Hansson Per Albin Hansson , was a Swedish politician, chairman of the Social Democrats from 1925 and two-time Prime Minister in four governments between 1932 and 1946, governing all that period save for a short-lived crisis in the summer of 1936, which he ended by forming a coalition government with his... |
874,267 | 37.0 | -4,1 | 90 | −15 | |
| General Electoral League Moderate Party The Moderate Party is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of conservatives in the Swedish parliament... |
Arvid Lindman Arvid Lindman Salomon Arvid Achates Lindman was a Swedish Rear Admiral, Industrialist and conservative politician... |
692,350 | 29.4 | +3,2 | 73 | +8 | |
| Free-minded People's Party | Carl Gustaf Ekman Carl Gustaf Ekman Carl Gustaf Ekman was a Swedish politician, Member of Parliament 1911-1932 , leader of the Freeminded People's Party 1924-1932 and Prime Minister from 1926 to 1928 and again from 1930 to 1932.... |
305,632 | 12,9 | +2,1 | 28 | −1 | |
| Peasants League | Olof Olsson | 262,756 | 11.2 | +0,3 | 27 | +4 | |
| Communist Party of Sweden Left Party (Sweden) The Left Party is a socialist and feminist political party in Sweden, from 1967 to 1990 known as the Left Party – The Communists .On welfare issues, the party opposes privatizations... |
Nils Flyg Nils Flyg Nils Svante Flyg was a Swedish Communist politician who turned pro-Nazi during World War II.Nils Flyg was born and raised in Södermalm, a working-class area of Stockholm. Early on he joined the Swedish Social Democratic Party's youth organization, the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League... |
151,729 | 6.4 | +2,8 | 8 | +4 | |
| Liberal Party of Sweden | Eliel Löfgren Eliel Löfgren Jonas Eliel Löfgren was a Swedish jurist and Liberal Party politician. He served as Minister of Justice from 1917 to 1920, and as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1926 to 1928.- References :... |
70,861 | 3,0 | +1,0 | 4 | 0 | |
| No. of valid votes | ? | 100.0 | 230 | ||||
| Invalid votes | ? | ||||||
| Total | 2,363,168 (67,4 %) |
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