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About Ture Königson
- Ture König Königson (21 June 1910 – 13 October 1994) was a Swedish evangelical labour-liberal politician, belonging to the People's Party.
- He was born in Gothenburg.
- Königson is primarily remembered in Swedish politics for having decided the outcome of the parliamentary vote on the 1957 pension reform.Königson's father was a typographer by profession, Königson became an industrial worker at the Götaverken shipyard in Gothenburg.
- Königson was a member of the Gothenburg city council 1951 to 1952, and held different municipal positions.
- In 1953 he became a member of the Second Chamber of the Swedish Parliament, having been elected as a candidate of the People's Party.Regarding the pension reform, the vote in the parliament had been preceded by a general referendum, in which the proposed reform had won the most votes (out of three alternatives) but no majority.
- At the time of the parliamentary vote in 1959, the government side counted with 115 seats and the opposition to the reform (including Königson's People's Party) had 115 seats.
- By abstaining from voting (the sole parliamentarian to do so), Königson decided the vote in the favour of the reform proposal.This type of action, to disobey party directives in a crucial parliamentary vote, is highly unusual in Swedish politics.
- Through his abstention, Königson became the most prominent parliamentary dissident in modern Swedish politics.
- After the vote, Königson declared that being a worker himself he could not vote against the pension reform.
- He stated that he could not have looked his colleagues at the shipyard in the eyes, had he voted no.
- Although he received support from the public for his decision, his political career was effectively ended.
- He was not put forth for re-election by the People's Party in the 1960 polls.
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