Election to the Swedish Parliament in 2002

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(in %)
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
39.85
15.26
13.39
9.15
8.39
6.19
4.65
1.44
1.68
FP
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 1998
 % p
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
+3.46
-7.64
+8.67
-2.62
-3.51
+1.06
+0.16
+1.07
-0.56
FP
Otherwise.
30th
144
17th
22nd
48
33
55
30th 144 17th 22nd 48 33 55 
A total of 349 seats
  • V : 30
  • S : 144
  • MP : 17
  • C : 22
  • FP : 48
  • KD : 33
  • M : 55

The election for the Swedish Parliament in 2002 took place on September 15, 2002.

Survey

Surveys (in%)
Survey period S. V MP M. FP C. KD Others
September 2002 36.3 9.3 4.2 20.4 12.0 4.0 10.3 3.5
June 2002 45.6 8.6 3.9 21.7 3.8 4.7 9.6 2.1
May 2002 40.9 11.3 3.7 22.4 5.5 6.4 8.1 1.7
April 2002 44.2 9.3 4.0 23.0 4.4 4.7 7.2 3.2
March 2002 43.1 11.6 4.5 21.4 3.9 6.0 7.3 2.2
February 2002 43.8 11.5 2.6 22.9 4.6 4.6 9.6 0.4
December 2001 34.3 13.8 5.4 26.6 4.6 4.6 9.9 0.8
November 2001 36.5 12.1 5.0 25.6 4.7 5.7 8.5 1.9
October 2001 34.1 12.2 4.7 25.3 4.0 6.6 11.2 1.9
September 2001 35.3 14.6 3.6 24.3 4.1 6.4 11.3 0.4
June 2001 32.9 12.8 3.8 25.4 5.0 8.4 8.8 2.9
May 2001 35.8 11.1 3.7 24.5 5.0 8.9 9.2 1.8
Election 1998 36.4 12.0 4.5 22.9 4.7 5.1 11.8 2.6

Election result

The election winners were the Social Democrats (S). They were able to maintain their position as the strongest party in parliament and increased their result compared to the previous election by a good 3.5 percentage points to 39.9 percent. On the other hand, the losers in the election were the Conservatives (M). They fell 7.6 percentage points to 15.3 percent.

Result of the election to the Swedish Parliament in 2002
Political party be right Seats
number % +/- number +/-
Swedish Social Democratic Labor Party (S) 2,113,560 39.85 +3.46 144 +13
Moderate gathering party (M) 809.041 15.26 −7.64 55 −27
People's Party The Liberals (FP) 710.312 13.39 +8.67 48 +31
Christian Democrats (KD) 485.235 9.15 −2.62 33 −9
Left Party (V) 444.854 8.39 −3.60 30th −13
Center Party (C) 328,428 6.19 +1.06 22nd +4
Environment party The Greens (MP) 246.392 4.65 +0.16 17th +1
Sweden Democrats (SD) 76,300 1.44 +1.07 - -
Swedish Pensioners Interest Party (SPI) 37,573 0.71 +0.29 - -
Others 51,517 0.97 - - -
total 5,303,212 100.00 349
Valid votes 5,303,212 98.47
Invalid votes 82,218 1.53
voter turnout 5,385,430 80.11
Eligible voters 6,722,152 100.00
Source:

Government formation

After failed efforts by the Liberal People's Party to bring about a change of power together with the Christian Democrats, the Center and the Greens, as well as support from the Conservatives, the Social Democratic minority government under Prime Minister Göran Persson remained in office with the support of the Left Party and the Greens.

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Official result of the elections for the Swedish Parliament in 2002 val.se (Swedish)
  2. ↑ Surveys  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Demoskop , PDF document (Swedish)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.demoskop.se