Sweden (European Parliament constituency)

Sweden
European Parliament constituency
Location among the 2014 constituencies
Member state	Sweden
Created	1995
MEPs	22 (1995 - 2004) 19 (2004 - 2009) 18 (2009 - 2011) 20 (2011 - present)
Sources

In European elections, Sweden is a constituency of the European Parliament covering the entire nation of Sweden. It is currently represented by twenty MEPs.

Current MEPs

As of April 2015

Name	National Party	EP group
Marita Ulvskog	Social Democrats	S&D
Jytte Guteland	Social Democrats	S&D
Olle Ludvigsson	Social Democrats	S&D
Jens Nilsson	Social Democrats	S&D
Anna Hedh	Social Democrats	S&D

1995

The map shows which European party group received the most votes in each municipality in 1995.

Austria, Finland and Sweden acceded to the Union on 1 January 1995. 59 delegates (21 from Austria, 16 from Finland, 22 from Sweden) were appointed to the Parliament on accession, bringing the total up to 626. Elections to elect the 22 MEPs for Sweden were held on 17 September 1995.^[1][2]

 Summary of the results of Sweden's 17 September 1995 election to the European Parliament

1995 • 1999 →
National party		European party	Main candidate	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Social Democratic Party (S)			752,817	28.06	—	7	—
	Moderate Party (M)			621,568	23.17	—	5	—
	Environmental Party (MP)			462,092	17.22	—	4	—
	Left Party (V)			346,764	12.92	—	3	—
	Centre Party (C)			192,077	7.16	—	2	—
	Liberal People's Party (FP)			129,376	4.82	—	1	—
	Christian Democrats (KD)			105,173	3.92	—	0	—
	Sarajevo List (SL)			26,875	1.00	—	0	—
	Others (parties that won less than 1% of the vote and no seats)			46,409		—	0	—
Valid votes				2,683,151	98.38
Blank and invalid votes				44,166	1.62
Totals				2,727,317	100.00	—	22	—
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout				6,551,781	41.63	—
Source:[3]

1999

The map shows which European party group received the most votes in each municipality in 1999.

The 1999 European election was the fifth election to the European Parliament.

 Summary of the results of Sweden's 13 June 1999 election to the European Parliament

← 1995 • 1999 • 2004 →
National party		European party	Main candidate	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Social Democratic Party (S)		Pierre Schori	657,497	25.99	2.07	6 / 22	1
	Moderate Party (M)		Staffan Burenstam Linder	524,755	20.75	2.42	5 / 22	0
	Left Party (V)		Jonas Sjöstedt	400,073	15.82	2.90	3 / 22	0
	Liberal People's Party (FP)		Marit Paulsen	350,339	13.85	9.03	3 / 22	2
	Environmental Party (MP)		Per Gahrton	239,946	9.49	7.73	2 / 22	2
	Christian Democrats (KD)		Anders Wijkman	193,354	7.64	3.72	2 / 22	2
	Centre Party (C)		Karl Olsson	151,442	5.99	1.17	1 / 22	1
	Others (parties that won less than 1% of the vote and no seats)			12,031	0.5	—	0 / 22	—
Valid votes				2,529,437	97.72
Blank and invalid votes				59,077	2.28
Totals				2,588,514	100.00	—	22 / 22	0
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout				6,664,205	38.84	2.79

2004

The map shows which European party group received the most votes in each municipality in 2004.

The 2004 European election was the sixth election to the European Parliament and the third for Sweden.

 Summary of the results of Sweden's 13 June 2004 election to the European Parliament

← 1999 • 2004 • 2009 →
National party		European party	Main candidate	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Social Democratic Party (S)	PES	Inger Segelström	616,963	24.56	1.43	5 / 19	1
	Moderate Party (M)	EPP	Gunnar Hökmark	458,398	18.25	2.50	4 / 19	1
	June List (JL)	EUD	Nils Lundgren	363,472	14.47	new	3 / 19	3
	Left Party (V)	NGLA	Jonas Sjöstedt	321,344	12.79	3.03	2 / 19	1
	Liberal People's Party (FP)	ELDR	Cecilia Malmström	247,750	9.86	3.99	2 / 19	1
	Centre Party (C)	ELDR	Lena Ek	157,258	6.26	0.27	1 / 19	0
	Environmental Party (MP)	EGP	Carl Schlyter	149,603	5.96	3.53	1 / 19	1
	Christian Democrats (KD)	EPP	Anders Wijkman	142,704	5.68	1.96	1 / 19	1
	Sweden Democrats (SD)	None	Sten Andersson	28,303	1.13	0.8	0 / 19	0
	Others (parties that won less than 1% of the vote and no seats)						0 / 19	0
Valid votes				2,512,069
Blank and invalid votes				72,395
Totals				2,584,464	100.00	—	19 / 19	3
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout				6,827,870	37.85	0.99
Source: Official results

2009

 Summary of the results of Sweden's 7 June 2009 election to the European Parliament

← 2004 • 2009 • 2014 →
National party		European party	Main candidate	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–	Seats (post-Lisbon)	+/–
	Social Democratic (S)	PES	Marita Ulvskog	773,513	24.41	0.15	5 / 18	0	6 / 20	1
	Moderate (M)	EPP	Gunnar Hökmark	596,710	18.83	0.58	4 / 18	0	4 / 20	0
	Liberal People's (FP)	ELDR	Marit Paulsen	430,385	13.58	3.72	3 / 18	1	3 / 20	0
	Green (MP)	EGP	Carl Schlyter	349,114	11.02	5.06	2 / 18	1	2 / 20	0
	Pirate (PP)	None	Christian Engström	225,915	7.13	new	1 / 18	1	2 / 20	1
	Left (V)	NGLA	Eva-Britt Svensson	179,222	5.66	7.14	1 / 18	1	1 / 20	0
	Centre (C)	ELDR	Lena Ek	173,414	5.47	0.79	1 / 18	0	1 / 20	0
	Christian Democrats (KD)	EPP	Ella Bohlin	148,141	4.68	1.01	1 / 18	0	1 / 20	0
	June List (JL)	EUD	Sören Wibe	112,355	3.55	10.92	0 / 18	3	0 / 20	0
	Sweden Democrats (SD)	None	Sven-Olof Sällström	103,573	3.27	2.14	0 / 18	0	0 / 20	0
	Feminist Initiative	None	Gudrun Schyman	70,434	2.22	new	0 / 18	0	0 / 20	0
	Others (parties or candidates that won less than 1% of the vote and no seats)			5,799	0.18	—	0 / 18	0	0 / 20	0
Valid votes				3,168,546	98.17
Blank and invalid votes				59,015	1.83
Totals				3,227,561	100.00	—	18 / 18	1	20 / 20	2
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout				7,088,303	45.53	7.68
Source: Val.se

References

1. Val-och-valdeltagande on the EU Upplysningen website from the Swedish Parliament
2. eng_faktablad_4_080206_webb.pdf on the EU Upplysningen website from the Swedish Parliament
3. "Results of the 17 September 1995 election of the 22 delegates from Sweden to the European Parliament" (in Swedish). Lars Alexandersson, Department of Mathematics, Linköping University. Retrieved 2008-12-06.

External links

• European Election News by European Election Law Association (Eurela)
• List of MEPs europarl.europa.eu