SWEDISH ELECTIONS

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 74, 25 September 1917, Page 7

SWEDISH ELECTIONS

VERDICT AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT.

UUSTRAUAN.NSW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) STOCKHOLM, 24th September. According to the results as known in four-fifths of the constituencies, the Conservatives have lost 22 seats, the Socialists winning six, the Liberals four, and the New Peasant Party twelve. The Argentina disclosures and the food regulations are the chief causes of the Government's defeat.

[At the last General Election the strength of the various parties, i according to the Statesman's Year Book, was —Conservatives 86, Socialists 87, Liberals 57. (Hazell's Annual classifies the parties as follows:—Conservatives 86, Liberals 71, Socialists 73.) The then Premier, M. Hammarskjold, was replaced early this year by M. Swartz, but the Conservative Party still retained power, owing to the failure of the Socialists and Liberals to coalesce. It remains to bo seen whether the Conservatives, with their numbers' seriously reduced, will be able to continue in office. The new "Peasant" party may have an influence on. affairs. In the Upper House—for which the elections are due in November, next —the Conservatives have at present an absolute majority over all their opponents combined.]