"What can we learn from the election?" - The mandate period 1976-1979 had meant a particularly tumultuous term for Swedish political conditions. The bourgeois government had cracked on the issue of nuclear power and, after some drama, the first liberal government had taken office since the 1920s. After the Harrisburg accident, the so-called "mad Wednesday" erupted when the Social Democrats unexpectedly changed their view on the nuclear issue.