Regional election 1979

Arbetarepartiet-Socialdemokraterna received 43.93% (2,212,869 votes) and 781 seats.

Regional elections were called county council elections until 2018. Before 1998 Skåne was two county councils (Kristianstad and Malmöhus counties) and Västra Götaland three (Göteborg och Bohus, Älvsborg and Skaraborg counties). Malmö and Gothenburg were outside the county councils and held no county council election. Habo and Mullsjö belonged to Skaraborg. Gotland had no county council and Heby belonged to Västmanland. Before 2006 the sources do not report local parties (such as health care parties) separately. They are included in Other parties, with votes and seats per county council. Workers' Party Communists (APK) votes are separated from other parties.

Source: Statistics Sweden's database (votes per municipality, seats per county council) and SND's Swedish electoral data (electoral districts).

Click an area to see its results. Colour shows the largest party.

Eligible voters: 5,679,203
Turnout: 89.2 %
Votes cast: 5,067,827
Valid votes: 5,037,222
Invalid votes: 30,605

Party	Share	Votes	Seats
S	43.93%	2,212,869	781
M	18.60%	937,081	302
C	18.58%	935,810	346
L	10.37%	522,118	177
V	5.54%	279,026	87
KD	2.04%	102,801	12
OTH	0.73%	36,716	–
APK	0.21%	10,801	–