1936 Swedish General Election and Red-Green Coalition
A parliamentary crisis brought down the Hansson I cabinet in June 1936; Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp formed the brief Bondeförbundet-only "vacation government" until the September Andrakammarval, after which Per Albin Hansson returned in a formal red-green coalition with the agrarians (Hansson II). The election converted the 1933 cross-class crisis pact into a permanent majority cabinet and locked in the legislative basis for the Folkhemmet welfare programme.
A parliamentary crisis in June 1936 brought down the Hansson I Cabinet 1932–1936 cabinet; Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp formed a brief Bondeförbundet-only minority government Pehrsson-Bramstorp Cabinet 1936 from 19 June to 28 September 1936 — known as semesterregeringen, the “vacation government”. The September Andrakammarval gave Socialdemokraterna under Per Albin Hansson a clear gain and reshaped the parliamentary arithmetic.
A formal red-green coalition was then formed between the Social Democrats and Bondeförbundet — the Hansson II government Hansson II Cabinet 1936–1939. The new cabinet converted the 1933 crisis-agreement pattern into a permanent majority government, locking in the legislative basis for the early Folkhemmet welfare programme: maternity benefits, housing supports, family policy, and the rearmament programme that would matter in 1939.
The election moved cross-class cooperation from informal pact to formal coalition and isolated political extremes more decisively than 1933 had done. Pehrsson-Bramstorp’s leadership shifted Bondeförbundet decisively toward parliamentary democracy and away from earlier corporatist temptations, setting the precedent for the wartime National Unity Government that would take office at the end of 1939.