European Parliament election, 2004 (Sweden)

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Elections to the European Parliament were held in Sweden on June 13, 2004. The ruling Social Democrats polled poorly, but virtually all the established parties lost ground to the eurosceptic June List.

[edit] Results

Party Head candidate Votes Seats
No. +− % No. +−
  Social Democratic Party Inger Segelström 616,963 24.56 -2.1 5 -1
  Moderate Party Gunnar Hökmark 458,398 18.25 −3.1 4 −1
  June List Nils Lundgren 363,472 14.47 +14.0 3 +3
  Left Party Jonas Sjöstedt 321,344 12.79 −3.4 2 −1
  Liberal People's Party Cecilia Malmström 247,750 9.86 -4.3 2 -1
  Centre Party Lena Ek 157,258 6.26 +0.01 1 +0
  Green Party Carl Schlyter 149,603 5.96 -3.8 1 -1
  Christian Democrats Anders Wijkman 142,704 5.68 −2.1 1 -1
  Sweden Democrats Sten Andersson 28,303 1.13 * 0 +0
EU-Opponents Bengt Åke Berg 15,505 0.62 +0.62 0 +0
  National Democrats Tor Paulsson 7,209 0.29 +0.3 0 +0
  Justice Party - the Socialists Ingrid Eriksson 2,087 0.1 +0.1 0 +0
Sweden out of EU - Libertarian Justice Party Sune Hjorth 147 0.0 * 0 +0
  European Workers Party Ulf Sandmark 137 0.0 * 0 +0
National Democratic Party of Sweden Pawel Grunneholm 66 0.0 * 0 +0
Insight Party Damon Collum 37 0.0 * 0 +0
Struggle of the Union Citizens for a Super-State of EU Miguel Angel Sosa Vasquez 36 0.0 * 0 +0
Rightwing Party the Conservatives Carl-Johan Swärdenheim 29 0.0 - 0 +0
Vision Europe Party Adam Ghoneim 25 0.0 - 0 +0
International Integration Party Zhinous (Jenny) Baensaf Oroumieh 8 0.0 - 0 +0
Communist League Björn Tirsén 2 0.0 * 0 +0
Republicans right Michael Schreiter 1 0.0 - 0 +0
Others¹ * 0,0
Valid votes 2,537,573 100,00   19 -3
Invalid votes 72,395  
Total 2,584,464
(37,85 %)

¹Inlcudes all votes on parties that had not registered, as well as a hand-full of obviously frivolous outfits registered by Bosse Persson (claiming to the Santa Claus of [[Sweden).

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.