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About elections in Sweden
I'm Bartłomiej Paruzel, and I built ElectioMap to map national elections around the world. This is the Sweden hub on ElectioMap — it brings together the 5 Sweden elections I cover: 4 with the official results, vote and turnout shares to two decimal places (and, where the electoral authority publishes an official regional breakdown, an interactive map you can explore region by region), plus a preview of the upcoming vote.
Sweden is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy in Northern Europe, consistently ranked among the world's strongest democracies and least corrupt states. The monarch — King Carl XVI Gustaf — is a purely ceremonial head of state, while executive power rests with a government led by the prime minister and accountable to parliament. Legislative power lies with the Riksdag, a unicameral parliament of 349 members elected for fixed four-year terms by party-list proportional representation. Seats are allocated by the modified Sainte-Laguë method across 29 multi-member constituencies, with 310 fixed constituency seats topped up by 39 nationwide adjustment seats (utjämningsmandat) that make the overall result almost perfectly proportional; a party must clear a 4% national threshold (or 12% in a single constituency) to win seats, and 175 of the 349 seats form an absolute majority. Swedish politics was long organised into two stable blocs — a "red-green" left led by the Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterna) with the Left Party (Vänsterpartiet) and the Greens (Miljöpartiet), and the centre-right four-party Alliance of the Moderates (Moderaterna), Centre Party (Centerpartiet), Liberals (Liberalerna) and Christian Democrats (Kristdemokraterna). That order was upended by the rise of the nationalist Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna), who entered parliament in 2010 and by 2022 had become the largest party of the right. The Social Democrats dominated 20th-century Sweden and have been the largest party in every election since 1917; recent prime ministers include Fredrik Reinfeldt (Moderate, 2006–2014), Stefan Löfven (Social Democrat, 2014–2021), Magdalena Andersson (Social Democrat, the country's first woman prime minister, 2021–2022) and Ulf Kristersson (Moderate, from 2022), whose government relies on the Sweden Democrats' parliamentary support. On the same day as the Riksdag election, voters also elect the 21 regional (region) councils and the 290 municipal (kommun) councils, so a single national polling day in September renews all three tiers of representative government every four years. Sweden joined the European Union in 1995 but retains its own currency, the krona, having rejected the euro in a 2003 referendum, and it elects members to the European Parliament; in March 2024 it abandoned two centuries of military non-alignment to join NATO. Elections are administered by the Election Authority (Valmyndigheten), which publishes official results at val.se.
Each election listed here has its own page with the full breakdown by party or candidate and an interactive map of the result.
Every figure on ElectioMap is taken from the official electoral authority for Sweden — the national election commission or equivalent body that certifies the count. I enter vote and turnout percentages exactly as published, to two decimal places and without rounding, and show seat totals wherever a chamber is being filled. When ElectioMap covers an election live, the page updates automatically as official figures are released. For the full sourcing and update policy, see Data & Methodology and the Editorial Policy.
The next national election ElectioMap is tracking in Sweden is the General Election 2026, scheduled for Sep 13, 2026. Live results will appear on its page as soon as counting begins.
All Sweden figures come from the official electoral authority that certifies the count, entered exactly as published to two decimal places. See the Data & Methodology page for the full sourcing and update policy.
Where the electoral authority publishes an official regional breakdown, the Sweden election page includes an interactive map — click a region to see how each party or candidate performed there. Where no official per-region data exists, the page shows the certified national result and says so.