Swedish general election, 2002

Swedish general election, 2002

15 September 2002

All 349 seats to the Riksdag 175 seats were needed for a majority   First party Second party Third party   Leader Göran Persson Bo Lundgren Lars Leijonborg Party Social Democratic Moderate Liberal People's Last election 131 seats 82 seats 17 seats Seats won 144 55 48 Seat change 13 27 31 Popular vote 2,113,560 809,041 710,312 Percentage 39.85% 15.26% 13.39%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Alf Svensson Gudrun Schyman Maud Olofsson Party Christian Democrats Left Centre Last election 42 seats 43 seats 18 seats Seats won 33 30 22 Seat change 9 13 4 Popular vote 485,235 444,854 328,428 Percentage 9.15% 8.39% 6.19%   Seventh party   Leader Peter Eriksson Maria Wetterstrand Party Green Last election 16 seats Seats won 17 Seat change 1 Popular vote 246,392 Percentage 4.65%

PM before election Göran Persson Social Democratic Elected PM Göran Persson Social Democratic

General elections were held in Sweden on 15 September 2002,^[1] alongside municipal and county council elections. The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in the Riksdag, winning 144 of the 349 seats.^[2]

Results

Final results of the 2002 Swedish general election		Votes			Seats
		#	%	+/-	#	+/-
	Social Democrats (s)	2,113,560	39.85	+3.46	144	+13
	Moderate Party (m)	809,041	15.26	−7.64	55	−27
	Liberal People's Party (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	30	−13
	Centre Party (c)	328,428	6.19	+1.06	22	+4
	Green Party (mp)	246,392	4.65	+0.16	17	+1
	Sweden Democrats (sd)	76,300	1.44	+1.07	0	–
	Swedish Senior Citizen Interest Party (spi)	37,573	0.71	+0.29	0	–
	Norrbotten Party	14,854	0.28	+0.28	0	–
	New Future	9,337	0.18	+0.01	0	–
	National Democrats (nd)	9,248	0.17	+0.17	0	–
	Skåne Party	4,564	0.09	+0.09	0	–
	Socialist Party	3,213	0.06	+0.03	0	–
	New Democracy¹ (nyd)	2,207	0.04	−0.11	0	–
	Socialist Justice Party (rs)	1,519	0.03	−0.03	0	–
	Communist Party of Sweden (skp)	1,182	0.02	−0.01	0	–
	Unity	603	0.01	-0.02	0	–
	Free List	502	0.01	+0.01	0	–
	Voice of the Free People	207	0.00	–	0	–
	European Workers Party	163	0.00	±0	0	–
	Welfare Party	94	0.00	–	0	–
	National Democratic Party of Sweden	87	0.00	–	0	–
	Alliance Party	58	0.00	±0	0	–
	Skåne Federalists	52	0.00	–	0	–
	Communist League	46	0.00	±0	0	–
	Citizens Party	27	0.00	±0	0	–
	Rikshushållarna	17	0.00	–	0	–
	Republicans	15	0.00	±0	0	–
	Tax Reformists	14	0.00	–	0	–
	Popular Democrats	12	0.00	±0	0	–
	Populist Party	11	0.00	–	0	–
	New Swedes D.P.N.S.	11	0.00	–	0	–
	Donald Duck Party	10	0.00	–	0	–
Parties with less than 10 votes		69	0.00
Valid votes		5,303,212	98.47
Invalid votes		82,218	1.53
Turnout		5,385,430	80.11	−1.28

¹ New Democracy was actually dissolved by the time of the election and did not run, but some voters wrote the party name on an empty ballot anyway.

By municipality

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  Votes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes within the coalition that won relative majority.

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  Cartogram of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast.

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  Map showing the voting shifts from the 1998 to the 2002 election. Darker blue indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that formed the centre-right bloc. Darker red indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that form the left-wing bloc.

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  Votes by municipality as a scale from red/Left-wing bloc to blue/Centre-right bloc.

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  Cartogram of vote with each municipality rescaled in proportion to number of valid votes cast. Deeper blue represents a relative majority for the centre-right coalition, brighter red represents a relative majority for the left-wing coalition.

References

1. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1873

Further reading

• Madeley, John T. S. (April 2003). "'The Swedish model is dead! Long live the Swedish model!' The 2002 Riksdag election". West European Politics 26 (2): 165–173. doi:10.1080/01402380512331341161.