Free-minded National Association

The Free-minded National Association (Swedish: Frisinnade Landsföreningen) was a political party in Sweden. The party was in government from 1905 to 1906 and from 1911 to 1914 under the leadership of Karl Staaff, from 1917 to 1920 under the leadership of Nils Edén, from 1926 to 1928 and from 1930 to 1932 under the leadership of Carl Gustaf Ekman and briefly from August to September 1932 under the leadership of Felix Hamrin.

Freeminded National Association Frisinnade Landsföreningen
Founded	1902
Dissolved	1934
Preceded by	Folkpartiet, Bondeska diskussionsklubben, Friesenska diskussionsklubben
Succeeded by	People's Party
Ideology	Classical liberalism Alcohol prohibition
International affiliation	International Entente of Radical and Similar Democratic Parties
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Established in 1902,^[1] in 1923 the party split over the issue of alcohol prohibition and the anti-ban minority formed the Liberal Party of Sweden. The two parties reunited again in 1934 as the People's Party.^[2]

Leaders

• Sixten von Friesen, 1900–1905
• Karl Staaff, 1905–1915
• Daniel Persson, 1915–1918
• Nils Edén, 1918–1924
• Carl Gustaf Ekman, 1924–1932
• Felix Hamrin, 1932–1935

Election results

Riksdag

Date	Votes			Seats		Position	Size
	No.	%	± pp	No.	±
1902	92,503	51.24	New	107 / 230	New	Opposition	1st
1905	98,287	45.23	6.01	109 / 230	2	Coalition	2nd
1908	144,426	46.83	1.6	105 / 230	4	Opposition	1st
1911	242,795	40.20	6.63	102 / 230	3	Coalition	1st
March 1914	245,107	32.24	7.96	71 / 230	31	Opposition	3rd
September 1914	196,493	26.87	5.37	57 / 230	14	Opposition	3rd
1917	202,936	27.57	0.7	62 / 230	5	Coalition	2nd
1920	143,355	21.78	5.79	47 / 230	15	Opposition	3rd
1921	325,608	18.69	3.09	41 / 230	6	Opposition	3rd
1924	228,913	12.97	5.72	29 / 230	12	Opposition	3rd
1928	303,995	12.89	0.8	28 / 230	1	Opposition	3rd
1932	244,577	9.80	3.09	20 / 230	8	Opposition	4th

See also

• Liberalism and centrism in Sweden

References

1. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1843 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1861