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List of political parties in Sweden

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 parties often have a smaller chance of gaining power alone, and in the event a majority is not reached, can choose to work with each other to form coalition governments.

National parties

The letter(s) after each Swedish party name are the abbreviations commonly used in the Swedish media.

Parties with official representation

Parties with representation in the Riksdag and/or European Parliament:

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  • According to a threshold rule, any one particular party must receive at least 4% of the votes to be allocated a seat in the Riksdag.
  • 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.[1]

Minor parties

Defunct and historical parties

Joke parties

Regional and local parties

The following is a list of currently active[lower-alpha 1] and defunct (†) parties on the local (municipal and regional) levels.

Parties that are:

  • active only at the regional levels are listed in bold
  • active at both the regional and municipal levels are bold and are marked with an asterisk (*)
  • simultaneously campaigning on the national level are underlined

Blekinge

  • Ronneby Party [sv] (Ronnebypartiet, Ronneby)
  • SoL Party Sölvesborg and Lister [sv] (SoL-partiet Sölvesborg och Lister; Sölvesborg)

Dalarna

  • Residential Party [sv] † (Bopartiet; Ludvika)
  • Youth List [sv] † (Ungdomslistan, Hedemora)

Gävleborg

  • People's Home in Hofors-Torsåker [sv] (Folkhemmet i Hofors-Torsåker; Hofors)

Halland

  • Laholm Party [sv] (Laholmspartiet; Laholm)
  • Social List Active Politics † (Samhällslistan Aktiv Politik; Falkenberg)

Jämtland

Jönköping

  • Cooperation in Mullsjö (Samverkan i Mullsjö; Mullsjö)
  • Future of Mullsjö [sv] (Mullsjös framtid)
  • Solidarity - Work - Peace - Ecology [sv] (Solidaritet – Arbete – Fred – Ekologi, Nässjö)

Kalmar

Kronoberg

Norrbotten

Scania

Södermanland

Stockholm

Uppsala

  • Stop E4 West - Culture Party [sv] † (Stoppa E4 Väst – Kulturpartiet; Uppsala)

Västerbotten

  • Åsele Party [sv] (Åselepartiet, Åsele)

Västernorrland

Västra Götaland

Örebro

Östergötland

See also

Notes

  1. For the purposes of this article, a party qualifies as "active" if they have campaigned for a legislature since 2014.

References

  1. [1]
    "Putting out ballot papers". Valmyndigheten. 20 April 2018.
  2. [2]
    "Internetfenomenet som fick Hanif Bali i blåsväder". www.expressen.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 18 November 2019.
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