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2009 European Parliament election in Sweden

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2009 European Parliament election in Sweden
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18 seats to the European Parliament (20 seats from December 2011)
Turnout45.53% (Increase 7.68 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
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Leader Marita Ulvskog Gunnar Hökmark Marit Paulsen
Party Social Democrats Moderate Liberals
Alliance S&D EPP ALDE
Last election 5 seats, 24.56% 4 seats, 18.25% 2 seats, 9.86%
Seats won 5 (6) 4 3
Seat change Steady 0 (Increase 1) Steady 0 Increase 1
Popular vote 773,513 596,710 430,385
Percentage 24.41% 18.83% 13.58%
Swing Decrease 0.15% Increase 0.58% Increase 3.72%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
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Leader Carl Schlyter Christian Engström Eva-Britt Svensson
Party Green Pirate Left
Alliance European Greens None GUE/NGL
Last election 1 seat, 5.96% new 2 seats, 12.79%
Seats won 2 1 (2) 1
Seat change Increase 1 Increase 1 (Increase 2) Decrease 1
Popular vote 349,114 225,915 179,182
Percentage 11.02% 7.13% 5.66%
Swing Increase 5.06% new Decrease 7.13%
  Seventh party Eighth party
 
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Leader Lena Ek Ella Bohlin
Party Centre Christian Democrats
Alliance ALDE EPP
Last election 1 seat, 6.26% 1 seat, 5.68%
Seats won 1 1
Seat change Steady 0 Steady 0
Popular vote 173,414 148,141
Percentage 5.47% 4.68%
Swing Decrease 0.79% Decrease 1.00%

The 2009 European Parliament election in Sweden was held on 7 June 2009 and determined the makeup of the Swedish delegation to the European Parliament. The election was held using a modified form of the Sainte-Laguë method of party-list proportional representation using the entire country as a single electoral constituency. There is a threshold limit of 4 percent for Swedish elections to the European Parliament, so that any party not receiving at least four percent of the votes will not be allocated any seats.[1]

Sweden will be allocated 18 seats in the European parliament for this term, a reduction from the 19 they were allocated in the 2004 election. From December 2011 Sweden has 20 seats.[2]

The new Pirate Party polled at 7.1%, giving it one seat, and from December 2011 two seats after the Treaty of Lisbon.[2] The eurosceptic June List saw the biggest slump in support, falling nearly 11% and losing all 3 seats.

Turnout increased compared to the last election, from 37.9% to 45.5%.

Opinion polls

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Party Last
election 		29 April 2009
DN / Synovate[3] 		8 May 2009
Expressen / Demoskop[4] 		8 May 2009
SvD / Sifo[5] 		15 May 2009
TV4 Group / Novus[6] 		15 May 2009
SvD / Sifo[7] 		20 May 2009
DN / Synovate[8] 		21 May 2009
Expressen / Demoskop[9] 		21 May 2009
TV4 Group / Novus[10] 		21 May 2009
Skop[11] 		22 May 2009
SvD / Sifo[12] 		29 May 2009
Expressen / Demoskop[13] 		27 May 2009
TV4 Group / Novus[14] 		30 May 2009
SvD / Sifo[15] 		3 June 2009
TV4 Group / Novus[16] 		5 June 2009
Sifo[17] 		5 June
2009
Synovate[17] 		5 June 2009
Expressen / Demoskop[18] 		6 June 2009
TV 4 / Novus[19]
  Social Democrats (s) 24.6% 29.2% 32% 35.25% 29.4% 32.6% 30.3% 35.9% 29.1% 30.5% 31.9% 30.8% 29.1% 31.7% 30.4% 27.9% 26.2% 27.9% 26.5%
  Moderate Party (m) 18.3% 29.7% 31% 27.59% 25.9% 25.6% 26.3% 24.1% 25.3% 27.9% 23.9% 26.0% 22.3% 22.6% 20.2% 21.3% 22.0% 25.8% 19.0%
  Centre Party (c) 6.3% 5.4% 5% 4.71% 5.9% 5.6% 5.7% 7.4% 4.8% 5.8% 5.5% 5.7% 5.0% 5.2% 5.5% 5.1% 6.2% 5.4% 5.9%
  Liberal People's Party (fp) 9.8% 9.0% 6% 6.80% 10.2% 7.7% 9.0% 5.5% 8.8% 8.1% 9.3% 8.1% 9.4% 10.1% 9.7% 11.4% 10.9% 10.7% 11.1%
  Christian Democrats (kd) 5.7% 5.2% 4% 3.95% 4.6% 4.5% 4.7% 3.4% 5.2% 5.1% 3.6% 4.3% 5.4% 3.1% 4.5% 4.4% 6.2% 5.2% 4.9%
  Left Party (v) 12.8% 5.8% 6% 5.28% 5.8% 4.3% 6.0% 5.6% 7.1% 6.0% 5.1% 5.6% 7.6% 6.5% 6.8% 6.0% 5.0% 5.4% 6.7%
  Green Party (mp) 5.9% 7.0% 6% 7.90% 6.7% 8.3% 9.1% 7.6% 8.7% 7.9% 9.2% 8.1% 10.8% 10.2% 10.5% 10.9% 11.0% 6.8% 10.2%
  June List (jl) 14.4% 1.3% 1% 1.68% 2.3% 2.1% 2.2% 1.2% 2.0% 1.5% 2.2% 1.1% 1.5% 1.9% 2.2% 1.7% 2.9% 1.5% 3.8%
  Pirate Party (pp) 5.1% 5% 3.38% 5.6% 5.5% 5.4% 7.9% 6.0% 4.0% 6.1% 8.2% 6.2% 6.0% 6.7% 8.2% 6.1% 8.8% 8.5%
  Feminist Initiative (fi) — 1% — — — — 0.3% * — — — 0.6% — — — — — 0.6% —
  Sweden Democrats (sd) 1.13% — 2% 2.51% 3.1% 2.4% — 1.1% 2.1% 2.2% 2.1% 1.6% 1.6% 2.3% 2.3% — — 1.8% 2.0%
 
  Government (m, c, fp, kd) 40.0% 49.3% 46% 43.05% 46.6% 43.5% 43.4% 40.4% 44.1% 46.9% 42.3% 44.1% 42.1% 41.0% 33.9% 42.2% 45.3% 47.1% 40.9%
  Opposition (s, v, mp) 43.4% 42.0% 44% 48.43% 41.9% 45.2% 45.4% 49.1% 44.9% 44.4% 46.2% 44.5% 47.5% 48.4% 47.7% 44.8% 42.2% 40.1% 43.4%
  Others (jl., pp, fi, sd) 15.5% 6.4% 9% 7.57% 11.0% 10.0% 7.6% 11.1% 10.1% 7.7% 10.4% 11.5% 9.3% 10.2% 11.2% 9.9% 9.0% 12.7% 14.3%

* Based on delta of +0.3% in 29 May poll.


Results

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Main article: Results of the 2009 European Parliament election in Sweden

The final results were published by the Swedish Election Authority on 11 June 2009.[20] From December 2011, the Pirate Party and Swedish Social Democratic Party had one more seat each after the Treaty of Lisbon.[21]

PartyVotes%Seats
Won+/–Post-Lisbon+/–
Swedish Social Democratic Party773,51324.41506+1
Moderate Party596,71018.834040
Liberals430,38513.583+130
Green Party349,11411.022+120
Pirate Party225,9157.131+12+1
Left Party179,1825.661–110
Centre Party173,4145.471010
Christian Democrats148,1414.681010
June List112,3553.550–300
Sweden Democrats103,5843.270000
Feminist Initiative70,4342.220New00
Labour Initiative (SP–RS)2,8620.090000
National Democrats1,3290.040000
European Workers Party1960.010000
Socialists780.000New00
Swedish National Democratic Party570.000000
Partiet.se320.000New00
666 for an EU Superstate280.000000
Freedom and Justice Party280.000000
Communist League180.000000
Democratic National Party150.000New00
Blankledamöterna130.000New00
Nordic Union110.000New00
Republican Right20.000000
Parties not on the ballot1,1300.040–00
Total3,168,546100.0018–120+2
Valid votes3,168,54698.17
Invalid/blank votes59,0151.83
Total votes3,227,561100.00
Registered voters/turnout7,088,30345.53
Source: Val

Municipalities

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

Municipalities in which European party groups received the most votes:

Votes summary

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Popular vote
Social Democrats
 
 24.41%
Moderate
 
 18.83%
Liberals
 
 13.58%
Green
 
 11.02%
Pirate
 
 7.13%
Left
 
 5.66%
Centre
 
 5.47%
Christian Democrats
 
 4.68%
June List
 
 3.55%
Sweden Democrats
 
 3.27%
Feminist Initiative
 
 2.22%
Other parties
 
 0.18%

Seats summary

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Parliamentary seats
PES
 
 5(6)
EPP–ED
 
 5
ALDE
 
 4
Greens/EFA
 
 3(4)
GUE/NGL
 
 1

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Swedish Election Authority: Counting of votes and thresholds Archived 12 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b Amelia Andersdotter
  3. ^ "Young voters may give Pirate Party EU mandate" (in Swedish). 29 April 2009. Retrieved 15 May 2009.
  4. ^ "The EU Election" (PDF) (in Swedish). 8 May 2009. Retrieved 15 May 2009.
  5. ^ "Grand Slam for S and M in EU Elections According to Sifo" (in Swedish). 8 May 2009. Retrieved 15 May 2009.
  6. ^ "Strong support for Pirate Party in EU Election" (in Swedish). 15 May 2009. Retrieved 15 May 2009.
  7. ^ "The EU Parliament 2009" (PDF) (in Swedish). 15 May 2009. Retrieved 15 May 2009.
  8. ^ "One in Two Swedes Don't Know There's an Election in June" (in Swedish). 20 May 2009. Archived from the original on 23 May 2009. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
  9. ^ "M Losing Support" (in Swedish). 21 May 2009. Retrieved 21 May 2009.
  10. ^ "Pirate Party on the way into the EU" (in Swedish). 21 May 2009. Retrieved 21 May 2009.
  11. ^ "Skop: S Biggest in Coming EU Election" (in Swedish). 22 May 2009. Retrieved 22 May 2009.
  12. ^ "Many Uncertain Voters in Coming EU Election" (in Swedish). 23 May 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  13. ^ "Ameila, 21, on the Way to Brussels" (in Swedish). 29 May 2009. Archived from the original on 30 May 2009. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
  14. ^ "MP Could Be Third Largest Party in EU" (in Swedish). 29 May 2009. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
  15. ^ "M Losing Ground in Coming EU Election" (in Swedish). 30 May 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2009.
  16. ^ "Novus results" (PDF) (in Swedish). 3 June 2009. Retrieved 4 June 2009. [dead link]
  17. ^ a b "Further Increases for Pirate Party" (in Swedish). 5 June 2009. Archived from the original on 14 June 2009. Retrieved 5 June 2009.
  18. ^ "Pirate Party Continues to Grow, Now Fourth" (in Swedish). 5 June 2009. Archived from the original on 8 June 2009. Retrieved 5 June 2009.
  19. ^ "Novus results" (PDF) (in Swedish). 6 June 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2009. [dead link]
  20. ^ "Val till Europaparlamentet – Röster" (in Swedish). Election Authority. 11 June 2009. Archived from the original on 12 August 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2009.
  21. ^ Members of the European Parliament for Sweden 2009–2014
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