1964 general election

1964 general election: On 20 September the Social Democrats won 47.3% of the vote and 113 seats, securing a working majority in the second chamber together with the Communists. Erlander continued his record-breaking tenure as prime minister.

In the chronology of the Swedish model, this anchors 1964 under Tage Erlander as a year shaped by institutions, public conflict, reform, or security policy rather than cabinet arithmetic alone.

Source confidence is B: the basic event is promoted, while broader interpretation still depends on the cited source tier and later primary-source upgrades.