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Swedish general election, 2002
All 349 seats to the Riksdag
September 15, 2002
	Incumbent PM; Göran Persson; Social Democrats PM-elect; Göran Persson; Social Democrats

Here are the results of the general election to the Parliament of Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges riksdag), held September 15, 2002. 5,385,430 of the 6,722,152 eligible to vote voted in this election (80.11%).

Final results of the 2002 Swedish general election		Votes			Seats
Final results of the 2002 Swedish general election		#	%	+/-	#	+/-
	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.

Votes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes within the coalition that won relative majority.	Cartogram of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast.	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.
Votes by municipality as a scale from red/Left-wing bloc to blue/Centre-right bloc.	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.

[edit] See also

Elections in Sweden

[edit] 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.

[edit] External links

Swedish Election Authority - Official site
Guide to the Swedish Election 2006 - The Local