European Parliament election, 2009 (Sweden)
Title: European Parliament election, 2009 (Sweden)
Subject: European Parliament election, 2009, Christian Engström, European Parliament election, 2004 (Sweden), European Parliament election, 2009 (Sweden), Amelia Andersdotter
Collection: 2009 Elections in Sweden, 2009 in Sweden, European Parliament Election, 2009, European Parliament Elections in Sweden
Sweden European Parliament election, 2009
18 seats to the European Parliament (20 seats from december 2011)
The European Parliament election of 2009 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 [2]
The new [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%.
Notes 1.1
Municipalities 1.2
Votes summary 1.3
Seats summary 1.4
Pre-election polls 3
The final results were published by the Swedish Election Authority on 11 June 2009.[3] From December 2011, Pirateparty and Swedish Social Democratic Party have one more seats after Treaty of Lisbon.[4]
Summary of the results of Sweden's 7 June 2009 election to the European Parliament
European party
Main candidate
Seats (post-Lisbon)
Social Democratic (S) PES Marita Ulvskog 773,513 24.41 0.15
Moderate (M) EPP Gunnar Hökmark 596,710 18.83 0.58
Liberal People's (FP) ELDR Marit Paulsen 430,385 13.58 3.72
Green (MP) EGP Carl Schlyter 349,114 11.02 5.06
Pirate Party (PP) None Christian Engström 225,915 7.13 new
Left (V) NGLA Eva-Britt Svensson 179,222 5.66 7.14
Centre (C) ELDR Lena Ek 173,414 5.47 0.79
Christian Democrats (KD) EPP Ella Bohlin 148,141 4.68 1.01
June List (JL) EUD Sören Wibe 112,355 3.55 10.92
Sweden Democrats (SD) None Sven-Olof Sällström 103,573 3.27 2.14
Feminist Initiative None Gudrun Schyman 70,434 2.22 new
Others (parties or candidates that won less than 1% of the vote and no seats) 5,799 0.18 —
Valid votes 3,168,546 98.17
Blank and invalid votes 59,015 1.83
Totals 3,227,561 100.00 —
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout 7,088,303 45.53 7.68
Source: Val.se
The map shows which European party group received the most votes in each municipality
Municipalities in which European party groups received the most votes:
Greens-EFA: Lund, Gothenburg, Sundbyberg
ALDE: Sunne, Valdemarsvik, Ydre
EPP-ED: Danderyd, Vellinge, Lidingö
PES: Överkalix, Kalix, Hagfors
Votes summary
Social Democratic
Liberal People's
June List
Sweden Democrats
Feminist Initiative
Seats summary
Parliamentary seats
EPP–ED
Greens–EFA
EUL–NGL
Pre-election polls
DN / Synovate[5]
Expressen / Demoskop[6]
SvD / Sifo[7]
TV4 Group / Novus[8]
DN / Synovate[10]
Expressen / Demoskop[11]
TV4 Group / Novus[12]
Skop[13]
SvD / Sifo[14]
Sifo[19]
Synovate[19]
TV 4 / Novus[21]
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.
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