2002 Swedish county council elections

The Swedish county council elections of 2002 were held on Sunday 15 September, along with other elections in Sweden to the Municipalities and the parliament.

Results

These are the overall party results of the elections to the various County Councils of Sweden.

Party		Leader	Votes			Seats
			No.	%	+− %	No.	+−
	Social Democrats	Göran Persson	2 011 334	38,4	+2,7	682	+49
	Moderate	Bo Lundgren	867 804	16,6	−5,6	253	−84
	Liberals	Lars Leijonborg	629 287	12,0	+6,0	187	+93
	Left	Gudrun Schyman	438 136	8,3	−2,4	145	−42
	Christian Democrats	Alf Svensson	428 804	8,2	−1,8	141	−27
	Centre	Maud Olofsson	365 128	6,3	+0,3	139	+16
	Green	Maria Wetterstrand and Peter Eriksson	204 169	3,9	-0,5	55	-15
	SPI-Senior Citizens	Kerstin Koistinen	52 888	1,0	*	3	-1
	Health Care Party of Norrbotten		35 593	0,7	*	17	+6
	Health Care Party - Will of the People		33 108	0,6	+0	6	+0
	Sweden Democrats	Mikael Jansson	29 511	0,6	*	0	+0
	Health Care Party in Värmland		28 611	0,5	-	15	+15
	Skånes Väl		18 927	0,4	*	0	-6
	Health Care Party Gävleborg		11 320	0,2	-	5	+5
	Health Care Party - Västernorrland		9 836	0,2	+0	5	-2
	Skåne Party	Carl P. Herslow	9 073	0,2	*	0	-
	National Democrats	Anders Steen	7 609	0,1	-	0	-
	Skaraborg Party		7 442	0,1	-	0	-
	Communist	Anders Carlsson	5 645	0,1	-	0	-
	Socialist Justice		4 934	0,1	*	0	+0
	People's Campaign for Health Care		3 479	0,1	-	0	-
	Health Care Party in Jämtland		3 432	0,1	-	3	+3
	Abolish the County Council		3 168	0,1	-	0	-
	Socialist Party		1 720	0,0	-	0	-
	Länsbytarpartiet		1 333	0,0	-	0	-
	Communist - APK	Rolf Hagel	1 375	0,0	-	0	-
	Health Care Party of Uppland		756	0,0	-	0	-
	Pensionist Party in Göteborg		395	0,0	*	0	+0
	Norrland Party		296	0,0	-	0	-
	Citizens Party		178	0,0	-	0	-
	Skåne Federalists		169	0,0	-	0	-
	Welfare Party		144	0,0	-	0	-
	Alliance Party		137	0,0	-	0	-
	Communist League		50	0,0	-	0	-
	Parties with less than 50 votes		*	0,0	*	0	*
Valid votes				100,00
Invalid votes			116 585
Total			5 343 961 (77,4 %)