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...Social Democrats, architects of Sweden's cradle-to-grave welfare system, it was the worst trouncing at the polls since 1928. All told, they won only 138 seats in the 349-member Riksdag, or Parliament, and just 38% of the popular vote. Behind their defeat was widespread discontent over the high cost of social benefits. Pensions and health and other programs are generous, but the top tax rate of about 70% is the highest in the Western world...
...winning a fourth term last week as Sweden's Prime Minister. But the veteran Social Democratic Party leader could hardly boast of a triumph at the polls. His center-left party, which stands squarely for the welfare state, actually lost seven of its 166 seats in the 349-member Riksdag (parliament), as its share of the popular vote fell from 45.6% in 1982 to 44.9%. Thus Palme will have to rely increasingly on the support of the 19 Communist deputies in parliament (the Communists lost one seat...
...close it took three days of counting the 5,322,688 votes to determine who had won. Finally, on the strength of mailed-in ballots, a grouping of Conservative, Center and Liberal parties emerged with a 5,000-vote margin and 175 seats in the 349-member Riksdag (parliament). The leftist opposition alliance had 174 seats-154 for the Social Democrats, still the country's biggest single party, and 20 for the Communists...
...cling to office, he may have some problems. Until a new constitution goes into effect in 1975, the only way to break a tied vote in the one-chamber legislature is by lottery. According to an unusual provision of Sweden's current constitution, tie votes in the Riksdag are resolved by placing one yes and one no ballot in an urn; under the watchful eye of two legislators representing both sides, a third Riksdag member draws one of the tickets from the urn to decide the fate of the bill...
...parliamentary elections last week, voters took Palme-but with some reservations. Gathering 46% of the total vote and 166 seats, Palme's Social Democrats lost their absolute majority in the 350-seat Riksdag.* What is more, they will be forced to rely for support on the Communist Party, whose vote spurted from a post-Czechoslovakia low of 3% in 1968 elections to 4.9% this time out. With 17 seats, the Communists hold the balance of power...