General elections were held in

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on 18 September 1988. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1858 The

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remained the largest party in the

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, winning 156 of the 349 seats.Nohlen & Stöver, p1873

Results

Seat distribution

By municipality

Image:Sweden.1988.coalition.largest.map.svg, Votes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes ''within'' the coalition that won relative majority. Image:Sweden.1988.coalition.largest.cart.svg,

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of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast. Image:Sweden.1985.to.1988.coalition.voting.shift.map.svg, Map showing the voting shifts from the 1985 to the 1988 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. Image:Sweden.1988.coalition.purple.map.svg, Votes by municipality as a scale from red/Left-wing bloc to blue/Centre-right bloc. Image:Sweden.1988.coalition.purple.cart.svg,

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.

References

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