2004 European Parliament election in Sweden

2004 European Parliament election in Sweden

13 June 2004
19 seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	37.85% ( 0.99 pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Inger Segelström Gunnar Hökmark Nils Lundgren Party Social Democrats Moderate June List Alliance PES EPP EUD Last election 6 seats, 25.99% 5 seats, 20.75% new Seats won 5 4 3 Seat change 1 1 3 Popular vote 616,963 458,398 363,472 Percentage 24.56% 18.25% 14.47% Swing 1.43% 2.50% new   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Jonas Sjöstedt Cecilia Malmström Lena Ek Party Left Liberals Centre Alliance NGLA ALDE ALDE Last election 3 seats, 15.82% 3 seats, 13.85% 1 seat, 5.99% Seats won 2 2 1 Seat change 1 1 0 Popular vote 321,344 247,750 157,258 Percentage 12.79% 9.86% 6.26% Swing 3.03% 3.99% 0.27%   Seventh party Eighth party   Leader Carl Schlyter Anders Wijkman Party Green Christian Democrats Alliance Greens/EFA EPP Last election 2 seats, 9.49% 2 seats, 7.64% Seats won 1 1 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 149,603 142,704 Percentage 5.96% 5.68% Swing 3.53% 1.96%

The 2004 European Parliament election in Sweden was the election of MEP representing Sweden constituency for the 2004-2009 term of the European Parliament. It was part of the wider 2004 European election. The vote took place on 13 June. The ruling Social Democrats polled poorly, but virtually all the established parties lost ground to the eurosceptic June List.

Results

Main article: Results of the 2004 European Parliament election in Sweden

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

The Insight Party, Struggle of the Union Citizens, International Integration Party, Vision Europe Party, International Integration Party, Republicans right and all the various lists of Bosse Persson had only one candidate on their lists. The Communist League had 4 candidates, but only got 2 votes.

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Swedish Social Democratic Party	616,963	24.56	5	–1
	Moderate Party	458,398	18.25	4	–1
	June List	363,472	14.47	3	New
	Left Party	321,344	12.79	2	–1
	Liberal People's Party	247,750	9.86	2	–1
	Centre Party	157,258	6.26	1	0
	Green Party	149,603	5.96	1	–1
	Christian Democrats	142,704	5.68	1	–1
	Sweden Democrats	28,303	1.13	0	0
	EU Opponents	15,505	0.62	0	New
	National Democrats	7,209	0.29	0	New
	Socialist Justice Party	2,087	0.08	0	0
	Freedom and Justice Party	147	0.01	0	New
	European Workers Party	137	0.01	0	0
	Swedish National Democratic Party	66	0.00	0	New
	Transparency Party	37	0.00	0	New
	Union Citizens' Fight for an EU Superstate	36	0.00	0	New
	Right Party the Conservatives	29	0.00	0	New
	Vision Europe Party	25	0.00	0	New
	EU Critical Santa Party	19	0.00	0	New
	Viking Party	9	0.00	0	0
	International Integration Party	8	0.00	0	New
	Motbokspartiet	8	0.00	0	New
	EU out of Sweden Party	4	0.00	0	New
	Communist League	2	0.00	0	0
	EU-Critic Party	2	0.00	0	New
	Republican Right	1	0.00	0	New
	Other parties	943	0.04	0	–
Total		2,512,069	100.00	19	–3
Valid votes		2,512,069	97.20
Invalid/blank votes		72,395	2.80
Total votes		2,584,464	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		6,827,870	37.85
Source: Val