In Sweden, the Social Democratic, Socialist, and C Level Contact List Communist parties together won more than half the vote in 1932-1952, 1958-1970, 1982, 1985, and 1994, while the Social Democracy alone did so in 1940 and 1968; in Norway, all elections C Level Contact List held from 1945 to 1969 inclusive resulted in an absolute majority of the Labor parties. Workers' parties only won a majority of votes in Denmark and Finland once, in 1966. Labor majorities in the Nordic countries were always dominated by social democracy, except in Finland. Divisions over the C Level Contact List Russian Revolution have since hampered adherence to Finnish social democracy, which must share the working-class vote with a strong communist party.
The class vote (measured by the simple C Level Contact List Alford index as the difference between the percentage of blue-collar workers who vote Labor and the percentage of the middle class who vote Labor, or by more sophisticated statistical methods) has C Level Contact List been extraordinarily strong. in the Nordic countries, higher than anywhere else in Europe, in Australia or in the world for democratic elections. Despite the important decline experienced since 1960 in C Level Contact List Sweden and Norway and since 1970 in Denmark and Finland, the class vote remains less weak than in other countriestwo.
But in the Swedish election of 2018, for the first C Level Contact List time at least since the breakthrough in the early 1930s, only a minority of workers sided with the Labor parties: one-third favored Social Democracy (regressing from to 43% of 2014) and one tenth by the Left Party. The usual 30% backed the traditional bourgeois parties, while 25% now supported C Level Contact List the far-right Sweden Democrats.3. In recent decades, the unions have weakened and become far removed from social democratic politicians. However, their organizations have C Level Contact List clearly held up better than the social democratic parties. Most Nordic workers still belong to trade associations.