List of political parties in Sweden

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This article lists political parties in Sweden.

Sweden has a multi-party system with numerous political parties, in which parties often have a smaller chance of gaining power alone, and in the event a majority is not reached, can choose to work with each other to form coalition governments.

National parties

The letter(s) after each Swedish party name are the abbreviations commonly used in the Swedish media.

Parties with official representation

Parties with representation in the Riksdag and/or European Parliament:

Party Abbr. Leader Ideology Political position EP group
MPs
MEPs Municipality
Swedish Social Democratic Party
Socialdemokratiska arbetarpartiet
S/SAP Magdalena Andersson Social democracy
Centre-left
S&D
107 / 349
5 / 21
3,771 / 12,614
Sweden Democrats
Sverigedemokraterna
SD Jimmie Åkesson
far-right
ECR
73 / 349
3 / 21
2,091 / 12,614
Moderate Party
Moderata samlingspartiet
M Ulf Kristersson Liberal conservatism
Centre-right
EPP
68 / 349
4 / 21
2,584 / 12,614
Left Party
Vänsterpartiet
V Nooshi Dadgostar Left-wing
The Left
24 / 349
2 / 21
811 / 12,614
Centre Party
Centerpartiet
C Muharrem Demirok Liberalism
Agrarianism (Nordic)
centre-right
Renew
24 / 349
2 / 21
1,213 / 12,614
Christian Democrats
Kristdemokraterna
KD Ebba Busch Centre-right to right-wing EPP
19 / 349
1 / 21
755 / 12,614
Green Party
Miljöpartiet de Gröna
MP Daniel Helldén
Amanda Lind
Centre-left
Greens/EFA
18 / 349
3 / 21
309 / 12,614
Liberals
Liberalerna
L Johan Pehrson
Centre-right
Renew
16 / 349
1 / 21
509 / 12,614
  • According to a threshold rule, any one particular party must receive at least 4% of the votes to be allocated a seat in the Riksdag.
  • Any party having broken the 1% threshold in the last two EU-parliament or Riksdag elections respectively will have their ballots printed and distributed by the authorities.[1]

Minor parties

Defunct and historical parties

Joke parties

Regional and local parties

The following is a list of currently active[a] and defunct (†) parties on the local (municipal and regional) levels.

Parties that are:

  • active only at the regional levels are listed in bold
  • active at both the regional and municipal levels are bold and are marked with an asterisk (*)
  • simultaneously campaigning on the national level are underlined
  • Socialist Alternative* (Socialistiskt Alternativ; Luleå
    )

See also

Notes

  1. ^ For the purposes of this article, a party qualifies as "active" if they have campaigned for a legislature since 2014.

References

  1. ^ "Putting out ballot papers". Valmyndigheten. 20 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Internetfenomenet som fick Hanif Bali i blåsväder". www.expressen.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 18 November 2019.