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COMPOSITION AND PROCEDURE OF THE RIKSDAG.
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term of three years: if the chamber be dissolved (which, however, has
only occurred twice, viz. in 1887 and 1914), the new elections hold good
only for the remainder of the three-year term.
The mode of election to both Chambers is proportional (so, too, in the
election, within county-councils and town-councils, of members of the
First Chamber). The method of election, worked out by Professor E.
Phragmén, is based on the Thiel method (with some modifications
intended inter alia to counteract "decapitation". Cf. p. 206).
Table 39 contains a summary of the population, the number of persons
entitled to vote, and the actual voters, in the years when elections to the Second
Chamber have taken place during the period 1872—1914. The figures for the
years 1911 and 1914 are not fully comparable with those of the preceding years,
owing to the above-mentioned alterations in the franchise, which were put in force
for the first time in 1911. After these changes had been carried through, the body
of electors was more than doubled, in that it was increased from 503 000 to
1 066 000, or by 112 %. Political activity in Sweden, as expressed in the
number of actual voters as a percentage of those entitled to vote, has increaced
during the period covered by Table 39 from 19 % to about 70 %, i. e. it has
more than trebled.
In the first General Election on the proportional system the party
composition of the Riksdag was as follows. The Second Chamber (1912—14)
consisted of 64 Moderates (Conservatives; Right), 102 Liberals and 64 Social
Democrats; after the ordinary election in September 1914 the Second Chamber
Table 39. General Elections to the Second Chamber of the Rilcsdag.
Ordinary Elections Population at end of previous year Entitled to Votei 1 Actual Voters
Total Men 21—o) years Total % of
Population % of Adult Males Total % of entitled voters
1872 ...... 4 204 177 1 093 711 236120 5’62 21-59 45198 19-1
1875 ...... 4 341 559 1115 715 255 552 5-89 22-90 49 765 19-5
1878 ...... 4 484 542 1 162 046 270 337 6 03 23-26 54 821 20-3
1881...... 4 565 668 1193 454 281163 6-16 23-56 66 591 23-7
1884 ...... 4 603 595 1 209 071 291 668 6-34 24-12 73 636 25-2
1887 2..... 4 717189 1 253 164 278 039 5’89 22-19 99 870 35-9
1890 ...... 4 774 409 1 261 593 288 096 603 22-84 110 896 38-5
1893 ...... 4 806 865 1 259 224 298 810 6-22 23-73 126 691 42-4
1896 ...... 4 919 260 1 291 826 309 889 6-30 23-99 140 488 45-3
1899 ...... 5 062 918 1 340 709 339 876 6’71 25-35 136 982 40-3
1902 ...... 5 175 228 1 381 944 382 075 7’38 27-65 180 529 47-2
1905 ...... 5 260 811 1 410 202 432 099 8-21 30-64 217 759 50-4
1908 ...... 5 377 713 1 453 491 503 128 9-36 34-64 308 412 61-3
1911...... 5 522 403 1 501 081 1066 200 19-31 71-03 607 487 57-0
1914 3 (Spring) . 5 638 583 1 092 454 19-37 763 423 69-9
1914 4 (Autumn). 5 638 583 1 111 960 19-72 735 393 66-1
1 This means those who were effectively entitled to vote, i. e. who were under no legal
incapacity to exercise their right to vote. The entire number of voters on the register in
1914 was 1 385 847 persons, corresponding to 24’6 % of the whole population. — 2 At the
General Election in March 1887, after the dissolution of the Chamber, the number of
those entitled to vote was 274 733 and the number of those who recorded their vote was
132 265, or 48’1 %. — 3 After the dissolution of the Chamber. — 4 Ordinary election in
September.
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