List of political parties in Sweden

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This article lists political parties in Sweden.

Sweden has a multi-party system with numerous political parties, in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.

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The parties

The letter or letters in brackets after each Swedish party name are the abbreviations commonly used for those parties in the Swedish media.

Parties with official representation

Parties represented in the Parliament of Sweden or the European Parliament:

Name Ideology MPs MEPs Membership
Swedish Social Democratic Party
Sveriges Socialdemokratiska arbetarparti
S Social democracy, Democratic Socialism[1] 112 5 103,027 (2009)[2]
Moderate Party
Moderata samlingspartiet
M Conservatism, Corporatism 107 4 55,612[3]
Green Party
Miljöpartiet de Gröna
MP Green politics 25 2 10,635 (2009)[4]
Liberal People's Party
Folkpartiet Liberalerna
FP Social liberalism, Pro-Europeanism 24 3 17,875 (2009)[5]
Centre Party
Centerpartiet
C Centrism, Green Liberalism, Agrarianism 23 1 37,340 (2009)[6]
Sweden Democrats
Sverigedemokraterna
SD Nationalism, Social conservatism 20 0 5,846 (2010)[7]
Pirate Party
Piratpartiet
PP Intellectual property reform 0 2 7,847 (2011)[8]
Christian Democrats
Kristdemokraterna
KD Christian democracy 19 1 22,320 (2009)[9]
Left Party
Vänsterpartiet
V Socialism, Feminism 19 1 8,706 (2009)[10]

Note: the four cabinet parties (the Centre Party, the Christian Democrats, the Liberal People's Party and the Moderate Party) have formed Alliance for Sweden.

Other parties

Note: Any party having broken the 1% threshold in the last two EU-parliament or Riksdag elections respectively will have their ballots printed and distributed by the authorities.[11]

Minor parties

Local parties

Historical

Joke parties

See also

References

  1. ^ Socialdemokraternas Partiprogram
  2. ^ Cederholm, Robert; Eliasson, Anders (15 March 2010). "Partierna tappar medlemmar". SVT. http://svt.se/2.22620/1.1927298/partierna_tappar_medlemmar. 
  3. ^ Cederholm, Robert; Eliasson, Anders (15 March 2010). "Partierna tappar medlemmar". Sveriges Television. http://svt.se/2.22620/1.1927298/partierna_tappar_medlemmar. Retrieved 7 October 2010. 
  4. ^ Cederholm, Robert; Eliasson, Anders (15 March 2010). "Partierna tappar medlemmar" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. http://svt.se/2.22620/1.1927298/partierna_tappar_medlemmar. Retrieved 21 May 2011. 
  5. ^ Cederholm, Robert; Eliasson, Anders (15 March 2010). "Partierna tappar medlemmar". SVT. http://svt.se/2.22620/1.1927298/partierna_tappar_medlemmar. 
  6. ^ Cederholm, Robert; Eliasson, Anders (15 March 2010). "Partierna tappar medlemmar". SVT. http://svt.se/2.22620/1.1927298/partierna_tappar_medlemmar. 
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  9. ^ Cederholm, Robert; Eliasson, Anders (15 March 2010). "Partierna tappar medlemmar". SVT. http://svt.se/2.22620/1.1927298/partierna_tappar_medlemmar. 
  10. ^ Cederholm, Robert; Eliasson, Anders (15 March 2010). "Partierna tappar medlemmar". SVT. http://svt.se/2.22620/1.1927298/partierna_tappar_medlemmar. 
  11. ^ Valmyndigheten, Valsedeldistribution

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