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Hjalmar Branting

1860 - 1925

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Karl Hjalmar Branting (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈjǎlmar ˈbrânːtɪŋ] ; 23 November 1860 – 24 February 1925) was a Swedish politician who was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) from 1907 until his death in 1925, and three times Prime Minister of Sweden. When Branting came to power in 1920, he was the first Social Democratic Prime Minister of Sweden. When taking office for a second term after the general election of 1921, he became the first democratic socialist head of government in Western Europe elected under universal suffrage. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hjalmar Branting has received more than 226,848 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Hjalmar Branting is the 2,950th most popular politician (up from 3,816th in 2019), the 123rd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 154th in 2019) and the 37th most popular Swedish Politician.

Hjalmar Branting was a Swedish politician and the first leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. He was also the first Prime Minister of Sweden.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Over the past year Hjalmar Branting has had the most page views in the with 35,363 views, followed by English (23,327), and Chinese (3,636). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Serbian (101.43%), Ido (89.02%), and Uzbek (80.35%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hjalmar Branting ranks 2,950 out of 19,576. Before him are Ludwig Quidde, Al-Muqtadir, Gisela of Hungary, Barbara Bush, Jörg Haider, and Jules de Polignac. After him are Shalmaneser V, Koca Sinan Pasha, Mauricio Macri, Joseph Wirth, Emperor Taizu of Jin, and Lucilla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Hjalmar Branting ranks 27. Before him are Ernest Thompson Seton, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Hugo Wolf, John J. Pershing, Louis Wain, and William Kemmler. After him are Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia, Oda Krohg, Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, Karl Denke, René Lalique, and Gyula Andrássy the Younger. Among people deceased in 1925, Hjalmar Branting ranks 26. Before him are George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, Wong Fei-hung, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria, and Félix Vallotton. After him are Eugen Sandow, Aleksey Kuropatkin, Karl Abraham, Oliver Heaviside, Fritz Haarmann, and Percy Fawcett.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Hjalmar Branting ranks 123 out of 1,879. Before him are Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland (1912), Lasse Hallström (1946), Gunnar Gren (1920), Sune Bergström (1916), Lennart Johansson (1929), and Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden (1001). After him are Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896), Ingemar Stenmark (1956), Catherine of Sweden, Countess Palatine of Kleeburg (1584), Hedvig Sophia of Sweden (1681), Harriet Andersson (1932), and Victor Sjöström (1879).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sweden

Among politicians born in Sweden, Hjalmar Branting ranks 37. Before him are Anund Jacob (1008), Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld (1938), Rudolf Kjellén (1864), Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland (1861), Gustav, Prince of Vasa (1799), and Lennart Johansson (1929). After him are Hedvig Sophia of Sweden (1681), Stefan Löfven (1957), Magnus III of Sweden (1240), Sverker I of Sweden (1100), Stenkil (1030), and Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland (1884).

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