General election 1979

General election: The 16 September 1979 parliamentary election returned a centre-right majority by a single seat. Ola Ullsten resigned and Thorbjörn Fälldin formed his second coalition government on 12 October.

In the chronology of the Swedish model, this anchors 1979 under Thorbjörn Fälldin / Ola Ullsten 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.