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General elections were held in Sweden on 15 September 2002,[1] alongside municipal and county council elections. The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in the Riksdag, winning 144 of the 349 seats.[2]
Results
| Final results of the 2002 Swedish general election |
Votes | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | +/- | # | +/- | ||
| Social Democrats (s) | 2,113,560 | 39.85 | +3.46 | 144 | +13 | |
| Moderate Party (m) | 809,041 | 15.26 | −7.64 | 55 | −27 | |
| Liberal People's Party (fp) | 710,312 | 13.39 | +8.67 | 48 | +31 | |
| Christian Democrats (kd) | 485,235 | 9.15 | −2.62 | 33 | −9 | |
| Left Party (v) | 444,854 | 8.39 | −3.60 | 30 | −13 | |
| Centre Party (c) | 328,428 | 6.19 | +1.06 | 22 | +4 | |
| Green Party (mp) | 246,392 | 4.65 | +0.16 | 17 | +1 | |
| Sweden Democrats (sd) | 76,300 | 1.44 | +1.07 | 0 | – | |
| Swedish Senior Citizen Interest Party (spi) | 37,573 | 0.71 | +0.29 | 0 | – | |
| Norrbotten Party | 14,854 | 0.28 | +0.28 | 0 | – | |
| New Future | 9,337 | 0.18 | +0.01 | 0 | – | |
| National Democrats (nd) | 9,248 | 0.17 | +0.17 | 0 | – | |
| Skåne Party | 4,564 | 0.09 | +0.09 | 0 | – | |
| Socialist Party | 3,213 | 0.06 | +0.03 | 0 | – | |
| New Democracy¹ (nyd) | 2,207 | 0.04 | −0.11 | 0 | – | |
| Socialist Justice Party (rs) | 1,519 | 0.03 | −0.03 | 0 | – | |
| Communist Party of Sweden (skp) | 1,182 | 0.02 | −0.01 | 0 | – | |
| Unity | 603 | 0.01 | -0.02 | 0 | – | |
| Free List | 502 | 0.01 | +0.01 | 0 | – | |
| Voice of the Free People | 207 | 0.00 | – | 0 | – | |
| European Workers Party | 163 | 0.00 | ±0 | 0 | – | |
| Welfare Party | 94 | 0.00 | – | 0 | – | |
| National Democratic Party of Sweden | 87 | 0.00 | – | 0 | – | |
| Alliance Party | 58 | 0.00 | ±0 | 0 | – | |
| Skåne Federalists | 52 | 0.00 | – | 0 | – | |
| Communist League | 46 | 0.00 | ±0 | 0 | – | |
| Citizens Party | 27 | 0.00 | ±0 | 0 | – | |
| Rikshushållarna | 17 | 0.00 | – | 0 | – | |
| Republicans | 15 | 0.00 | ±0 | 0 | – | |
| Tax Reformists | 14 | 0.00 | – | 0 | – | |
| Popular Democrats | 12 | 0.00 | ±0 | 0 | – | |
| Populist Party | 11 | 0.00 | – | 0 | – | |
| New Swedes D.P.N.S. | 11 | 0.00 | – | 0 | – | |
| Donald Duck Party | 10 | 0.00 | – | 0 | – | |
| Parties with less than 10 votes | 69 | 0.00 | ||||
| Valid votes | 5,303,212 | 98.47 | ||||
| Invalid votes | 82,218 | 1.53 | ||||
| Turnout | 5,385,430 | 80.11 | −1.28 | |||
¹ New Democracy was actually dissolved by the time of the election and did not run, but some voters wrote the party name on an empty ballot anyway.
By municipality
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Votes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes within the coalition that won relative majority.
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Cartogram of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast.
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Map showing the voting shifts from the 1998 to the 2002 election. Darker blue indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that formed the centre-right bloc. Darker red indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that form the left-wing bloc.
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Votes by municipality as a scale from red/Left-wing bloc to blue/Centre-right bloc.
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Cartogram of vote with each municipality rescaled in proportion to number of valid votes cast. Deeper blue represents a relative majority for the centre-right coalition, brighter red represents a relative majority for the left-wing coalition.
References
Further reading
- Madeley, John T. S. (April 2003). "'The Swedish model is dead! Long live the Swedish model!' The 2002 Riksdag election". West European Politics. 26 (2): 165–173. doi:10.1080/01402380512331341161.