Depends on where you draw the line of what is a democracy. Sweden was certainly on the way towards it. There were elections and the parliament was pretty power

Depends on where you draw the line of what is a democracy. Sweden was certainly on the way towards it. There were elections and the parliament was pretty powerful (though less powerful than today. But that change happened in '72, and you'd be hard pressed to claim Sweden wasn't democratic before that). Votes were still weighted towards the rich, and women couldn't normally vote yet, though.