Sweden held a general election on 20 September 1998.^[1] Although the Social Democrats hung onto being the largest party and being the largest parliamentary bloc, the party had its worst election result in the unicameral Riksdag era at 36.4%. Both the Left Party and the Christian Democrats had record high results instead, while the Centre Party and People's Party had record low vote shares.^[1]

There were 5,261,109 valid ballots cast, a sizeable decrease in turnout from the 1994 election, with turnout dropping from 86.8% to 81.4%.^[1]

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Party		Votes	%	Seats
				Con.	Lev.	Tot.	+/–
	Swedish Social Democratic Party	1,914,426	36.40	130	1	131	–30
	Moderate Party	1,204,926	22.91	77	5	82	+2
	Left Party	631,011	12.00	43	0	43	+21
	Christian Democrats	618,033	11.75	38	4	42	+27
	Centre Party	269,762	5.13	10	8	18	–9
	Liberal People's Party	248,076	4.72	7	10	17	–9
	Green Party	236,699	4.50	5	11	16	–2
	Swedish Senior Citizen Interest Party	52,869	1.01	0	0	0	0
	The New Party	25,276	0.48	0	0	0	0
	Sweden Democrats	19,624	0.37	0	0	0	0
	New Future	9,171	0.17	0	0	0	0
	New Democracy	8,297	0.16	0	0	0	0
	Senior Citizen Party	6,865	0.13	0	0	0	0
	Socialist Justice Party	3,044	0.06	0	0	0	0
	Communist Party	1,868	0.04	0	0	0	0
	Unity	1,725	0.03	0	0	0	0
	Socialist Party	1,466	0.03	0	0	0	0
	Other parties	6,971	0.13	0	0	0	0
Total		5,260,109	100.00	310	39	349	0
Valid votes		5,260,109	97.89
Invalid/blank votes		113,466	2.11
Total votes		5,373,575	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		6,603,129	81.38
Source: Statistical Central Bureau

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