General elections were held in

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on 19 September 1976. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1858 Although the

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remained the largest party, winning 152 of the 349 seats in the

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,Nohlen & Stöver, p1873 a

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was formed with the Centre Party, the People's Party and the conservative Moderate Party (who won a combined 180 seats), which formed Sweden's first non-socialist government since 1936. Centre Party leader Thorbjörn Fälldin, who had widely been expected to take over the government in the previous election of 1973 (which turned out to bring a 175-175 draw between the left and right blocs), was appointed Prime Minister, the first not from the

since Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp's brief interregnum 40 years earlier.

Results

Seat distribution

By municipality

Image:Sweden.1976.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.1976.coalition.largest.cart.svg, Cartogram of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast. Image:Sweden.1973.to.1976.coalition.voting.shift.map.svg, Map showing the voting shifts from the 1973 to the 1976 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.1976.coalition.purple.map.svg, Votes by municipality as a scale from red/Left-wing bloc to blue/Centre-right bloc. Image:Sweden.1976.coalition.purple.cart.svg, 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.

References

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