Moderate Party
Moderata samlingspartiet (Eng. Moderate Party ), short the Moderate (M, dt Moderates ) is represented in the Swedish parliament political parties. She is a bourgeois- conservative party with a liberal economic program.
History
The Moderate Party in 1904 under the name Allmänna Valmansförbundet (General Confederation voters ) in response to the electoral success of the other two political groupings that time ( Social Democrats and Liberals), who have been organizing in the years before, is formed. The structure of the party was influenced by the later party chairman Arvid Lindman ( party chairman from 1912 to 1935 ). First, the party went on national- conservative. Had the greatest electoral success of the party in the 20s, where it was the largest bourgeois party with distance ( election 1928: 29.4 % of the vote ), but it lost votes in the 1930s, as it fought against the social modernization thrusts. In 1938 she changed the name to Högerns Riksorganisation ( Reich Organization of rights) and 1952 in Högerpartiet ( right-wing party ).
After the depression in the 1948 election, at 12.3 %, an upward trend in the 1950s, followed by 19.5% in the election in 1958. During the 1960s, the share of the vote fell until the party in the election in 1970 with only 11.5 % the vote had shrunk to the smallest of the four bourgeois parties. The previous year, the party was renamed Moderata Samlingspartiet, which should signal a move closer to the political center. After the electoral defeat of 1970 Gösta Bohman took over the party presidency and continued the realignment of the party. In the 1979 election, they took the lead back in the bourgeois camp. The party participated in the coalition government 1976-1982.
After the 1991 election the party chairman Carl Bildt became Prime Minister and led a bourgeois coalition government until the election of 1994, when the Social Democrats returned to power.
Under the new leader Fredrik Reinfeldt, the party presented itself as Nya Moderaterna (Eng. New Moderate ). In 2004 the conservative camp had come together in alliance Allians för Sverige. After the joint election victory in 2006 Fredrik Reinfeldt formed a bourgeois majority government. The moderates reached in the Reichstag elections of 2010 30.1 % of the vote and 107 of 349 seats and were able to significantly improve its results compared with the previous general election. Despite this, the center-right coalition lost its majority and had to be continued as a minority government.
Reichstag elections
Until 1968, elections to the Second Chamber. Information from Statistiska Centralbyrån.