1999 European Parliament election in Sweden

1999 European Parliament election in Sweden

13 June 1999
22 seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	38.84% ( 2.79 pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Pierre Schori Staffan Burenstam Linder Jonas Sjöstedt Party Social Democrats Moderate Left Alliance PES EPP GUE/NGL Last election 7 seats, 28.06% 5 seats, 23.17% 3 seats, 12.92% Seats won 6 5 3 Seat change 1 0 0 Popular vote 657,497 524,755 400,073 Percentage 25.99% 20.75% 15.82% Swing 2.07% 2.42% 2.90%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Marit Paulsen Per Gahrton Anders Wijkman Party Liberals Green Christian Democrats Alliance ALDE Greens/EFA EPP Last election 1 seat, 4.82% 4 seats, 17.22% 0 seats, 3.92% Seats won 3 2 2 Seat change 2 2 2 Popular vote 350,339 239,946 193,354 Percentage 13.85% 9.49% 7.64% Swing 9.03% 7.73% 3.72%   Seventh party   Leader Karl Erik Olsson Party Centre Alliance ALDE Last election 2 seats, 7.16% Seats won 1 Seat change 1 Popular vote 151,442 Percentage 5.99% Swing 1.17%

The 1999 European Parliament election in Sweden was the election of MEP representing Sweden constituency for the 1999–2004 term of the European Parliament. It was part of the wider 1999 European election. The vote took place on 13 June.

Results

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

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Swedish Social Democratic Party	657,497	25.99	6	–1
	Moderate Party	524,755	20.75	5	0
	Left Party	400,073	15.82	3	0
	Liberal People's Party	350,339	13.85	3	+2
	Green Party	239,946	9.49	2	–2
	Christian Democrats	193,354	7.64	2	+2
	Centre Party	151,442	5.99	1	–1
	Sweden Democrats	8,568	0.34	0	–
	Socialist Justice Party	1,430	0.06	0	–
	Natural Law Party	435	0.02	0	–
	European Workers Party	99	0.00	0	–
	Alliance Party	75	0.00	0	–
	Hey You Party	72	0.00	0	–
	Viking Party Sweden out of the EU	64	0.00	0	–
	Beach Protection Party	47	0.00	0	–
	Republicans	33	0.00	0	–
	Communist League	32	0.00	0	–
	Independent Liberals	24	0.00	0	–
	Old School and Sports Party	21	0.00	0	–
	Crisis	3	0.00	0	–
	Dust	3	0.00	0	–
	Other parties	1,125	0.04	0	–
Total		2,529,437	100.00	22	0
Valid votes		2,529,437	97.72
Invalid/blank votes		59,077	2.28
Total votes		2,588,514	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		6,664,205	38.84
Source: Europa Portalen

External links

• European Election News by European Election Law Association (Eurela)