Political parties in Sweden

The following political parties have been represented in Sweden's elected public assemblies ( European Parliament , Riksdag , Provincial Parliament , Municipal Council ) since 2004 :

history

The party landscape in Sweden began to develop with the formation of the two-chamber Reichstag in 1866. Initially, the conservative farmers' party (lantmannaparti) dominated. Later, the farmers organized themselves in the farmers' association founded in 1922, which from the late 1920s onwards received around 70% of the votes of all farmers. The small, wealthy upper class in town and country mostly voted for the conservative party . With industrialization, liberal parties gained momentum, which in 1902 united in the Liberal Gathering Party. The Social Democratic Workers Party (SAP) was founded in 1889. After the introduction of universal suffrage in 1918, she gained a dominant position among Sweden's parties.

Reichstag parties

• Center part (C)
• Liberalerna (LIB)
• Kristdemokraterna (KD)
• Miljöpartiet de gröna (MP)
• Moderata samlingspartiet (M)
• Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti (S)
• Vänsterpartiet (V)
• Sverigedemokraterna (SD)

Provincial Diets

• the eight Reichstag parties
• Sjukvårdspartiet (in four provincial parliaments)
• Sveriges pensionärers intresseparti (in a provincial assembly)

Local councils (alongside those with exclusively local parties)

• the eight Reichstag parties
• Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti (in ~ 5 parishes)
• Sjukvårdspartiet (In ~ 10 municipalities)
• Kommunistiska Partiet (in ~ 15 municipalities)
• Sveriges pensionärers intresseparti (in ~ 50 municipalities)

European Parliament

• the eight Reichstag parties
• Feminist initiative (FI)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gurgsdies, Erik Sweden. Civil society in the universalistic welfare state, in: Meyer, Thomas (ed.), Praxis der Sozialen Demokratie, Wiesbaden 2006, p. 55