Election to the Swedish Parliament in 2014

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Final result (in%)
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
31.01
23.33
12.86
6.89
6.11
5.72
5.42
4.57
3.12
0.97
FP
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 2010
 % p
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
+0.35
-6.73
+7.16
-0.45
-0.45
+0.12
-1.64
-1.03
+2.72
-0.05
FP
Otherwise.
Distribution of seats
        
A total of 349 seats
  • V : 21
  • S : 113
  • MP : 25
  • C : 22
  • FP : 19
  • KD : 16
  • M : 84
  • SD : 49
Alliances
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
43.60
39.43
12.86
Center
left a
Middle right
Gains and losses
compared to 2010
 % p
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
-0.02
-9.85
+7.16
Center
left a
Middle right
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Remarks:
a without F! (3.12%, + 2.72%)
Reichstag building in Stockholm

The election to the Swedish Parliament in 2014 took place on September 14, 2014. A good seven million Swedes were called to cast their votes.

Dates, legislative period, electoral system

Up to and including 2010, the third Sunday in September was election day; since then regular elections to the Reichstag have been held on the second Sunday in September. All citizens who had reached the age of 18 on election day at the latest were entitled to vote. 349 members of the Swedish Reichstag were elected for a legislative period of four years . The Swedish electoral system is based on the principle of proportional representation . The country is divided into 29 constituencies (valkretsar), which essentially correspond to the 21 Swedish Län (provinces). However, Stockholm County is divided into two constituencies, Skåne County into four and Västra Götalands County into five constituencies. At the same time as the Reichstag elections, the elections for the provincial parliament and the municipal council elections were held.

The 349 mandates of the Reichstag consist of 310 so-called “fixed mandates” (fasta mandat) and 39  compensation mandates (utjämningsmandat). By April 30th of an election year at the latest, the electoral authority will determine how many of the 310 fixed mandates will be assigned to the individual constituencies. A blocking clause of four percent of the votes nationwide applies to the distribution of seats . First, the fixed mandates are distributed proportionally at constituency level. Those parties are also taken into account that failed to meet the nationwide threshold, provided they received at least twelve percent of the votes in the constituency. Then the 349 seats are distributed proportionally to the parties according to the nationwide voting ratio. From this number of seats, the seats already won as fixed constituency mandates are deducted for each party and the remaining seats still to be allocated to it as compensatory mandates. If a party has received more permanent constituency seats than it is entitled to according to national proportional representation, it will keep these seats. The other parties receive fewer seats accordingly. The so-called “balanced method”, a modification of the Sainte-Laguë procedure, is used for the allocation of seats between the parties .

Starting position

Election 2010

The alliance for Sweden , led by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, won the election. The bourgeois alliance increased its share of the vote by 1.1 percent to 49.3 percent compared to the last election. Despite this gain, the alliance lost an absolute majority because the Sweden Democrats entered the Reichstag for the first time. The right-wing populist party did better than expected and won 20 seats with 5.7 percent of the vote.

The red-green parties received 43.6 percent of the vote, a loss of 2.5 percentage points compared to the 2006 election. The Social Democrats were primarily responsible for the decline. They were again the strongest party in Sweden with 30.7 percent of the vote, but achieved their worst result since 1914. The Left Party also lost slightly, while the Greens gained two percentage points and entered the Reichstag as the third largest party.

All other parties clearly missed the 4 percent hurdle. The turnout was 84.6 percent.

Parties

Survey

15-day average trend line from September 2010 to today.
Moderaterna Social Democrats Green Sweden Democrats Left Party Centerpartiet Liberal Christian Democrats








In the surveys since 2011, the moderaterna were initially ahead. From the beginning of 2012, the Social Democrats were in the lead again. The gap between Moderaterna and Social Democrats slowly widened as the election date approached. The Greens were relatively constant around the 10 percent mark. The most obvious change was the increase in the number of Sweden Democrats since around mid-2012, who have since competed with the Greens for third place in opinion polls.

Election result

Parties with the highest number of votes by constituency (left) and municipalities (right): Social Democrats Moderate rallying party Sweden Democrats



Official final result of the election to the Swedish Parliament in 2014
Political party be right Seats
number % +/- number +/-
Moderate gathering party (M) 1,453,517 23.33 −6.74 84 −23
Center Party (C) 380,937 6.11 −0.44 22nd −1
People's Party The Liberals (FP) 337.773 5.42 −1.63 19th −5
Christian Democrats (KD) 284,806 4.57 −1.03 16 −3
Alliance for Sweden 2,457,033 39.43 −9.85 141 −32
Swedish Social Democratic Labor Party (S) 1,932,711 31.01 +0.35 113 +1
Environment party The Greens (MP) 429.275 6.89 −0.45 25th 0
Left Party (V) 356.331 5.72 +0.11 21st +2
The red greens 2,718,317 43.62 +0.02 159 +3
Sweden Democrats (SD) 801.178 12.86 +7.16 49 +29
Feminist Initiative (FI) 194.719 3.12 +2.72 - -
Others 60,326 0.97 −0.05 - -
total 6,231,573 100.00 349
Valid votes 6,231,573 99.08
Invalid blank ballot paper 56,287 0.89
Invalid other votes 2.156 0.03
voter turnout 6.290.016 85.81
Eligible voters 7,330,432 100.00
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After the election

In the 2014 election for the Swedish Reichstag on September 14, 2014, the largest ruling party, Moderata samlingspartiet, lost around 6.7 percentage points. The other parties in the civil alliance for Sweden suffered slight losses. The three red-green opposition parties received almost identical votes as in the previous election. The big winners were the right-wing populist Sweden Democrats outside of these alliances, who gained 7.2 percentage points and became the third largest party. The ruling coalition was no longer the strongest bloc, so the Reinfeldt government submitted its resignation, as announced before the election for this case.

Since neither of the two alliances was willing to work with the Sweden Democrats, the situation arose in which neither alliance achieved an absolute majority in the Reichstag. The Chairman of the Social Democrats, Stefan Löfven, was commissioned by the President of the Reichstag, Per Westerberg, to form a government. Talks to form a cross-bloc government under the leadership of the Social Democrats with the smaller parties of the bourgeois camp were unsuccessful. The Sweden Democrats thus had the role of telling the difference between the two blocs with their votes. The Social Democrats, who had previously ruled alone for decades as the only relevant left party in parliament, finally formed a minority government with the Greens for the first time, while the Left Party only tolerated the government but did not belong to it.

On October 2, 2014, Stefan Löfven was elected as the new Swedish Prime Minister (" State Minister "); he succeeds Fredrik Reinfeldt , who was Prime Minister for two legislative terms from 2006 to 2014 .

Government crisis

The government’s first expected challenge was the adoption of the budget . In Sweden the procedure for this is that first the drafts of the opposition are put against each other and the opposition then votes against the draft.

The Sweden Democrats, the Civil Alliance and the government each submitted their own drafts. Since the Sweden Democrats' draft was expected to fail in the first round of voting, the crucial question was whether the Sweden Democrats would abstain or vote in favor of the alliance's draft. After they announced their approval of the draft alliance, the government tried to come to an agreement with the alliance, but to no avail.

As expected, the draft submitted by the government did not receive a majority in the Reichstag in the vote on December 3, 2014. Löfven then announced early elections , which should probably have taken place on March 22, 2015. According to Swedish law, a new election can be called no earlier than three months after the first parliamentary session, in this case only after December 29th. However, the two governing parties, on the one hand, and the four alliance parties, on the other hand, agreed on a parliamentary procedure on December 27th, which should ensure the governance of minority governments in the future. Negotiations on this had been going on since December 22nd. It was also announced that compromises between the government and the opposition would be reached in the three policy areas of pensions, defense and energy.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Result of the election for the Swedish Parliament in 2014 val.se (Swedish)
  2. ↑ The Elections Act (2005: 837) ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 251 kB) Regeringskansliet, 2005 (accessed on August 20, 2010) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.val.se
  3. ↑ Rösterna är färdigräknade Svenska Dagbladet 23 September, 2010.
  4. ↑ Borgerliga får ett ytterligare mandate Dagens Industri 23 September, 2010.
  5. ↑ Jens Gmeiner: "The Swedish parliamentary election 2010. High phase and end point of the rigid bloc politics?" In: NORDEUROPAforum (2011: 1), pp. 73–96. Online version
  6. ↑ Sweden's Prime Minister announces new elections. In: Zeit Online. December 3, 2014, accessed on December 3, 2014 : “The coalition has failed, a new government is to be elected on March 22nd. [...] The new election can only officially be called on December 29th, three months after the last parliamentary election. "
  7. ↑ Clear: Det blir inget extra val. In: Expressen online. December 27, 2014, accessed December 27, 2014 .