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SWEDEN'S ELECTION OF SEPTEMBER 1994 RETURNED INGVAR CARLSSON'S SOCIAL DEMOCRATS TO POWER FOLLOWING THREE YEARS OF NON-SOCIALIST COALITION GOVERNMENT. AFTER A DEEP RECESSION, OBSERVERS WONDERED WHETHER THE ELECTORAL VOLATILITY APPARENT IN 1991, CHIEFLY IN SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC LOSSES AND NEW DEMOCRACY'S ARRIVAL, WOULD CONTINUE. MOREOVER, LONG-ESTABLISHED BLOC POLITICS WAS QUESTIONED BY THE GOVERNING LIBERALS ENTERTAINING A POSSIBLE POST-ELECTION COALITION WITH CARLSSON'S PARTY. HOWEVER, THE 1994 ELECTION RESULTS--THE SOCIAL DEMOCRAT'S VICTORY (DESPITE AN UNCERTAIN CAMPAIGN), THE ECLIPSE OF NEW DEMOCRACY, THE CENTER PARTIES' DECLINE AND THE STRENGTHENING OF THE MODERATES--SEEMED TO SIGNAL BLOC POLITICS' CONTINUING SALIENCE.