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.

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 with representation in the Riksdag and/or European Parliament:

Name Ideology MPs MEPs Membership
width=5px style="background-color: Template:Swedish Social Democratic Party/meta/color" | Swedish Social Democratic Party
Sveriges Socialdemokratiska arbetarparti 		Template:Swedish Social Democratic Party/meta/abbr Social democracy[1] 113 5 103,027 (2009)[2]
style="background-color: Template:Moderate Party/meta/color" | Moderate Party
Moderata samlingspartiet 		Template:Moderate Party/meta/abbr Liberal conservatism[3] 84 3 55,612[4]
style="background-color: Template:Sweden Democrats/meta/color" | Sweden Democrats
Sverigedemokraterna 		Template:Sweden Democrats/meta/abbr Right-wing populism,[5] National conservatism[6] 49 2 10,000 (2013)[7]
style="background-color: Template:Green Party (Sweden)/meta/color" | Green Party
Miljöpartiet de Gröna 		Template:Green Party (Sweden)/meta/abbr Green politics[8] 25 4 10,635 (2009)[9]
style="background-color: Template:Centre Party (Sweden)/meta/color" | Centre Party
Centerpartiet 		Template:Centre Party (Sweden)/meta/abbr Liberalism,[10][11] Agrarianism[10][11] 22 1 37,340 (2009)[2]
style="background-color: Template:Left Party (Sweden)/meta/color" | Left Party
Vänsterpartiet 		Template:Left Party (Sweden)/meta/abbr Socialism,[12] Feminist politics[12] 21 1 8,706 (2009)[2]
style="background-color: Template:Liberals (Sweden)/meta/color" | Liberals
Liberalerna 		Template:Liberals (Sweden)/meta/abbr Liberalism,[13] Social liberalism[14] 19 2 17,875 (2009)[2]
style="background-color: Template:Christian Democrats (Sweden)/meta/color" | Christian Democrats
Kristdemokraterna 		Template:Christian Democrats (Sweden)/meta/abbr Christian democracy,[15] Conservatism 16 1 22,320 (2009)[2]
style="background-color: Template:Feminist Initiative (Sweden)/meta/color" | Feminist Initiative
Feministiskt initiativ 		Template:Feminist Initiative (Sweden)/meta/abbr Feminist politics 0 1 22, 240

Other parties

  • Pirate Party (Piratpartiet) (PP) – represented in the European Parliament 2009–2014.
  • June List (Junilistan) (jl) – represented in the European Parliament 2004–2009

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.[16]

Minor parties

Local parties

Historical

Joke parties

See also

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References

  1. ^ Merkel, Wolfgang; Alexander Petring; Christian Henkes; Christoph Egle (2008). Social Democracy in Power: The Capacity to Reform. London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 8, 9. ISBN 0-415-43820-9.
  2. ^ a b c d e Cederholm, Robert; Eliasson, Anders (15 March 2010). "Partierna tappar medlemmar". SVT.
  3. ^ Björn Wittrock (2012). "The Making of Sweden". In Johann Pall Arnason; Bjorn Wittrock (eds.). Nordic Paths to Modernity. Berghahn Books. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-85745-270-2.
  4. ^ Cederholm, Robert; Eliasson, Anders (15 March 2010). "Partierna tappar medlemmar". Sveriges Television. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  5. ^ Berezin, Mabel (2013), "The Normalization of the Right in Post-Security Europe", Politics in the Age of Austerity, Polity Press, p. 255
  6. ^ Peter Starke; Alexandra Kaasch; Franca Van Hooren (2013). The Welfare State as Crisis Manager: Explaining the Diversity of Policy Responses to Economic Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 194. ISBN 978-1-137-31484-0.
  7. ^ Thurfjell, Karin (11 October 2013), "Åkesson: Svenska kyrkan har blivit mindre svensk och kristen", Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish)
  8. ^ Wolfram Nordsieck. "Parties and Elections in Europe". Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  9. ^ Cederholm, Robert; Eliasson, Anders (15 March 2010). "Partierna tappar medlemmar". Sveriges Television (in Swedish). Retrieved 21 May 2011.
  10. ^ a b Svante Ersson; Jan-Erik Lane (1998). Politics and Society in Western Europe. SAGE. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-7619-5862-8. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  11. ^ a b T. Banchoff (1999). Legitimacy and the European Union. Taylor & Francis. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-415-18188-4. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  12. ^ a b Claire Annesley, ed. (2013). Political and Economic Dictionary of Western Europe. Routledge. p. 225–. ISBN 978-1-135-35547-0.
  13. ^ Christina Bergqvist (1999). Equal Democracies?: Gender and Politics in the Nordic Countries. Nordic Council of Ministers. p. 320. ISBN 978-82-00-12799-4.
  14. ^ Claire Annesley, ed. (2013). A Political and Economic Dictionary of Western Europe. Routledge. p. 228. ISBN 978-1-135-35547-0.
  15. ^ Hans Slomp (2011). Europe, A Political Profile: An American Companion to European Politics [2 volumes]: An American Companion to European Politics. ABC-CLIO. p. 433. ISBN 978-0-313-39182-8.
  16. ^ Valmyndigheten, Valsedeldistribution

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