Sweden general election, 1998

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Results of the general election to the Riksdag, the parliament of Sweden, held on the third Sunday of September 1998.

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Party	Votes	%	Seats	Eq¹	Party leader/Comment
Social Democratic Party	1,914,426	36.4%	131	1	Göran Persson
Moderate Coalition Party	1,204,926	22.9%	82	5	Bo Lundgren
Left Party	631,011	12.0%	43	-	Gudrun Schyman
Christian Democrats	619,046	11.8%	42	4	Alf Svensson
Centre Party	269,762	5.1%	18	8	Lennart Daléus
People's Party - Liberals	248,076	4.7%	17	10	Lars Leijonborg
Green Party	236,699	4.5%	16	11
Others	137,176	2.6%	-	-
Total	5,261,122	100%	349		Number of valid ballots

Participation	5,374,588	81,4%			Number of ballots cast

¹ Number of equalization seats to ensure proportional representation.
There are 310 fixed seats and 39 equalization seats, making a grand total of 349 seats.

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