Sweden General election 2022 — Results
Election day: September 11, 2022
- Social Democrats: 30.33%, 107 seats
- Sweden Democrats: 20.54%, 73 seats
- Moderate Party: 19.10%, 68 seats
- Left Party: 6.75%, 24 seats
- Centre Party: 6.71%, 24 seats
- Christian Democrats: 5.34%, 19 seats
- Green Party: 5.08%, 18 seats
- Liberals: 4.61%, 16 seats
Turnout: 84.21%
About this election
How the vote works
As in every Riksdag election, the 349 members were chosen for a four-year term by party-list proportional representation using the modified Sainte-Laguë method across 29 constituencies, with 39 nationwide adjustment seats ensuring proportionality and a 4% national threshold for representation. Regional and municipal councils were elected on the same day. The Election Authority (Valmyndigheten) administers the vote, and an absolute majority requires 175 of the 349 seats.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 9.79 points separated Social Democrats from Sweden Democrats — 634,149 votes.
- Social Democrats took 30.33% of the vote and 30.66% of the seats (107 of 349) — almost exactly proportional.
- The top two shared 50.87% of the vote between them, and 7 lists cleared 5%.
- Social Democrats moved +2.07 points against the 2018 general election (28.26% → 30.33%).
- Support for Social Democrats ranged from 41.64% in Norrbotten to 26.73% in Skåne — a spread of 14.91 points across 21 regions, and it led in 21 of 21.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers
- Why Election Maps Look Different From the Popular Vote — why a map can look one-sided when the vote was close
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts