The Swedish general election, 1994 for the 349 seats in the Parliament of Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges riksdag) took place on 18 September 1994.

The election saw the return to power of the Social Democrats led by Ingvar Carlsson who formed a minority government after the election. The Greens also returned to the Riksdag after a three year absence. The Moderates slightly improved on their 1991 performance, but the Center Party, the Liberals and the Christian Democrats all fared poorly, the latter barely holding on to their parliamentary representation. New Democracy, a populist political party which had entered the Riksdag three years earlier, performed poorly, losing most of its voters and all of its seats in the Riksdag. In total the party's vote share dropped from 6.7% in 1991 to 1.2% in 1994. The election introduced an extended electoral cycle of four years, replacing the previous three year terms. It was also notable for being the first electoral event in the world whose official results were published live on the nascent World Wide Web (other countries had previously used the then-fledging Internet to officially broadcast election results, but with simpler methods such as e-mail lists). ^[1]

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Swedish general election, 1994
All 349 seats to the Riksdag
18 September 1994
		First party	Second party
Leader		Ingvar Carlsson	Carl Bildt
Party		Social Democrats	Moderate Party
Last election		138 seats	80 seats
Seats won		161	80
Seat change		+23	+0
Popular vote		2,513,905	1,243,253
Percentage		45.25%	22.38%
Incumbent PM Carl Bildt Moderate Party PM-elect Ingvar Carlsson Social Democrats

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Elections to the Swedish Riksdag held 18 September 1994.

Votes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes within the coalition that won relative majority.	Cartogram of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast.	Map showing the voting shifts from the 1991 to the 1994 election. Darker blue indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that formed the centre-right bloc. Darker red indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that form the left-wing bloc.
Votes by municipality as a scale from red/Left-wing bloc to blue/Centre-right bloc.	Cartogram of vote with each municipality rescaled in proportion to number of valid votes cast. Deeper blue represents a relative majority for the centre-right coalition, brighter red represents a relative majority for the left-wing coalition.

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