Stockholm municipal election, 1998

The Stockholm municipal election of 1998 was held on 15 September 1998, concurrently with the 1998 Swedish general election. Using a party-list proportional representation system to allocate the 101 seats of the Stockholm city council (Stockholms kommunfullmäktige) amongst the various Swedish political parties. Voter turnout was 76.9%.

The results for the Social Democrats were the lowest in decades, and for the first time since the initiation of universal male suffrage in 1911, the Moderates outnumbered the Social Democrats to become the largest party on the Stockholm City Council as a result of this election.

Results

Party		Votes			Seats
		#	%	+ –	#	+ –
	Moderate Party Moderaterna (m)	146,797	32.9%	+4.3%	35	+6
	Social Democrats Socialdemokraterna (s)	114,118	25.6%	–7.4%	29	–8
	Left Party Vänsterpartiet (v)	54,663	12.3%	+3.1%	13	+2
	Liberal People's Party Folkpartiet liberalerna (fp)	34,789	7.8%	–0.1%	9	±0
	Christian Democrats Kristdemokratiska samlingspartiet (kd)	28,320	6.4%	+4.3%	6	+6
	Green Party Miljöpartiet (mp)	26,347	5.9%	–1.9%	6	–2
	Stockholm Party Stockholmspartiet (sp)	19,561	4.4%	NA^[1]	3	+1
	Centre Party Centerpartiet (c)	9,187	2.1%	–3.3%	0	–5
Other parties		11,942	2.7%	NA^[1]	0	±0
Total		445,724	100%	—	101	±0
Invalid ballots		8,469

Notes

¹ No separate election results were available for the Stockholm Party for the 1994 Stockholm municipal election, and thus year-to-year vote comparison is not possible.

See also

• Elections in Sweden
• List of political parties in Sweden
• City of Stockholm

References

• Statistics Sweden, "Kommunfullmäktigval – valresultat" (Swedish)
• Statistics Sweden, "Kommunfullmäktigval – erhållna mandat efter kommun och parti. Valår 1973–2006" (Swedish)
• Swedish Election Authority (Valmyndigheten)