2009 European Parliament election in Sweden

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18 seats to the European Parliament (20 seats from December 2011)

Turnout

45.53% (

7.68 pp)

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Marita Ulvskog	Gunnar Hökmark	Marit Paulsen
Party	Social Democrats	Moderate	Liberals
Alliance	S&D	EPP	ALDE
Last election	5 seats, 24.56%	4 seats, 18.25%	2 seats, 9.86%
Seats won	5 (6)	4	3
Seat change	0 ( 1)	0	1
Popular vote	773,513	596,710	430,385
Percentage	24.41%	18.83%	13.58%
Swing	0.15%	0.58%	3.72%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Carl Schlyter	Christian Engström	Eva-Britt Svensson
Party	Green	Pirate	Left
Alliance	European Greens	None	GUE/NGL
Last election	1 seat, 5.96%	new	2 seats, 12.79%
Seats won	2	1 (2)	1
Seat change	1	1 ( 2)	1
Popular vote	349,114	225,915	179,182
Percentage	11.02%	7.13%	5.66%
Swing	5.06%	new	7.13%

	Seventh party	Eighth party

Leader	Lena Ek	Ella Bohlin
Party	Centre	Christian Democrats
Alliance	ALDE	EPP
Last election	1 seat, 6.26%	1 seat, 5.68%
Seats won	1	1
Seat change	0	0
Popular vote	173,414	148,141
Percentage	5.47%	4.68%
Swing	0.79%	1.00%

The 2009 European Parliament election in Sweden was held on 7 June 2009 and determined the makeup of the Swedish delegation to the European Parliament. The election was held using a modified form of the Sainte-Laguë method of party-list proportional representation using the entire country as a single electoral constituency. There is a threshold limit of 4 percent for Swedish elections to the European Parliament, so that any party not receiving at least four percent of the votes will not be allocated any seats.

Sweden will be allocated 18 seats in the European parliament for this term, a reduction from the 19 they were allocated in the 2004 election. From December 2011 Sweden has 20 seats.

The new Pirate Party polled at 7.1%, giving it one seat, and from December 2011 two seats after the Treaty of Lisbon. The eurosceptic June List saw the biggest slump in support, falling nearly 11% and losing all 3 seats.

Turnout increased compared to the last election, from 37.9% to 45.5%.

Opinion polls

Party		Last election	29 April 2009 DN / Synovate	8 May 2009 Expressen / Demoskop	8 May 2009 SvD / Sifo	15 May 2009 TV4 Group / Novus	15 May 2009 SvD / Sifo	20 May 2009 DN / Synovate	21 May 2009 Expressen / Demoskop	21 May 2009 TV4 Group / Novus	21 May 2009 Skop	22 May 2009 SvD / Sifo	29 May 2009 Expressen / Demoskop	27 May 2009 TV4 Group / Novus	30 May 2009 SvD / Sifo	3 June 2009 TV4 Group / Novus	5 June 2009 Sifo	5 June 2009 Synovate	5 June 2009 Expressen / Demoskop	6 June 2009 TV 4 / Novus
	Social Democrats (s)	24.6%	29.2%	32%	35.25%	29.4%	32.6%	30.3%	35.9%	29.1%	30.5%	31.9%	30.8%	29.1%	31.7%	30.4%	27.9%	26.2%	27.9%	26.5%
	Moderate Party (m)	18.3%	29.7%	31%	27.59%	25.9%	25.6%	26.3%	24.1%	25.3%	27.9%	23.9%	26.0%	22.3%	22.6%	20.2%	21.3%	22.0%	25.8%	19.0%
	Centre Party (c)	6.3%	5.4%	5%	4.71%	5.9%	5.6%	5.7%	7.4%	4.8%	5.8%	5.5%	5.7%	5.0%	5.2%	5.5%	5.1%	6.2%	5.4%	5.9%
	Liberal People's Party (fp)	9.8%	9.0%	6%	6.80%	10.2%	7.7%	9.0%	5.5%	8.8%	8.1%	9.3%	8.1%	9.4%	10.1%	9.7%	11.4%	10.9%	10.7%	11.1%
	Christian Democrats (kd)	5.7%	5.2%	4%	3.95%	4.6%	4.5%	4.7%	3.4%	5.2%	5.1%	3.6%	4.3%	5.4%	3.1%	4.5%	4.4%	6.2%	5.2%	4.9%
	Left Party (v)	12.8%	5.8%	6%	5.28%	5.8%	4.3%	6.0%	5.6%	7.1%	6.0%	5.1%	5.6%	7.6%	6.5%	6.8%	6.0%	5.0%	5.4%	6.7%
	Green Party (mp)	5.9%	7.0%	6%	7.90%	6.7%	8.3%	9.1%	7.6%	8.7%	7.9%	9.2%	8.1%	10.8%	10.2%	10.5%	10.9%	11.0%	6.8%	10.2%
	June List (jl)	14.4%	1.3%	1%	1.68%	2.3%	2.1%	2.2%	1.2%	2.0%	1.5%	2.2%	1.1%	1.5%	1.9%	2.2%	1.7%	2.9%	1.5%	3.8%
	Pirate Party (pp)		5.1%	5%	3.38%	5.6%	5.5%	5.4%	7.9%	6.0%	4.0%	6.1%	8.2%	6.2%	6.0%	6.7%	8.2%	6.1%	8.8%	8.5%
	Feminist Initiative (fi)		—	1%	—	—	—	—	0.3% *	—	—	—	0.6%	—	—	—	—	—	0.6%	—
	Sweden Democrats (sd)	1.13%	—	2%	2.51%	3.1%	2.4%	—	1.1%	2.1%	2.2%	2.1%	1.6%	1.6%	2.3%	2.3%	—	—	1.8%	2.0%

	Government (m, c, fp, kd)	40.0%	49.3%	46%	43.05%	46.6%	43.5%	43.4%	40.4%	44.1%	46.9%	42.3%	44.1%	42.1%	41.0%	33.9%	42.2%	45.3%	47.1%	40.9%
	Opposition (s, v, mp)	43.4%	42.0%	44%	48.43%	41.9%	45.2%	45.4%	49.1%	44.9%	44.4%	46.2%	44.5%	47.5%	48.4%	47.7%	44.8%	42.2%	40.1%	43.4%
	Others (jl., pp, fi, sd)	15.5%	6.4%	9%	7.57%	11.0%	10.0%	7.6%	11.1%	10.1%	7.7%	10.4%	11.5%	9.3%	10.2%	11.2%	9.9%	9.0%	12.7%	14.3%

* Based on delta of +0.3% in 29 May poll.

Results

Main article: Results of the 2009 European Parliament election in Sweden

The final results were published by the Swedish Election Authority on 11 June 2009. From December 2011, the Pirate Party and Swedish Social Democratic Party had one more seat each after the Treaty of Lisbon.


Party		Votes	%	Seats
Party		Votes	%	Won	+/–	Post-Lisbon	+/–
	Swedish Social Democratic Party	773,513	24.41	5	0	6	+1
	Moderate Party	596,710	18.83	4	0	4	0
	Liberals	430,385	13.58	3	+1	3	0
	Green Party	349,114	11.02	2	+1	2	0
	Pirate Party	225,915	7.13	1	+1	2	+1
	Left Party	179,182	5.66	1	–1	1	0
	Centre Party	173,414	5.47	1	0	1	0
	Christian Democrats	148,141	4.68	1	0	1	0
	June List	112,355	3.55	0	–3	0	0
	Sweden Democrats	103,584	3.27	0	0	0	0
	Feminist Initiative	70,434	2.22	0	New	0	0
	Labour Initiative (SP–RS)	2,862	0.09	0	0	0	0
	National Democrats	1,329	0.04	0	0	0	0
	European Workers Party	196	0.01	0	0	0	0
	Socialists	78	0.00	0	New	0	0
	Swedish National Democratic Party	57	0.00	0	0	0	0
	Partiet.se	32	0.00	0	New	0	0
	666 for an EU Superstate	28	0.00	0	0	0	0
	Freedom and Justice Party	28	0.00	0	0	0	0
	Communist League	18	0.00	0	0	0	0
	Democratic National Party	15	0.00	0	New	0	0
	Blankledamöterna	13	0.00	0	New	0	0
	Nordic Union	11	0.00	0	New	0	0
	Republican Right	2	0.00	0	0	0	0
	Parties not on the ballot	1,130	0.04	0	–	0	0
Total		3,168,546	100.00	18	–1	20	+2

Valid votes		3,168,546	98.17
Invalid/blank votes		59,015	1.83
Total votes		3,227,561	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		7,088,303	45.53
Source: Val

Municipalities

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

Municipalities in which European party groups received the most votes:

Greens-EFA: Lund, Gothenburg, Sundbyberg
ALDE: Sunne, Valdemarsvik, Ydre
EPP-ED: Danderyd, Vellinge, Lidingö
PES: Överkalix, Kalix, Hagfors

Votes summary

Popular vote

Social Democrats			24.41%
Moderate			18.83%
Liberals			13.58%
Green			11.02%
Pirate			7.13%
Left			5.66%
Centre			5.47%
Christian Democrats			4.68%
June List			3.55%
Sweden Democrats			3.27%
Feminist Initiative			2.22%
Other parties			0.18%

Seats summary

Parliamentary seats

PES			5(6)
EPP–ED			5
ALDE			4
Greens/EFA			3(4)
GUE/NGL			1

References

Swedish Election Authority: Counting of votes and thresholds Archived 12 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^ Amelia Andersdotter
"Young voters may give Pirate Party EU mandate" (in Swedish). 29 April 2009. Retrieved 15 May 2009.
"The EU Election" (PDF) (in Swedish). 8 May 2009. Retrieved 15 May 2009.
"Grand Slam for S and M in EU Elections According to Sifo" (in Swedish). 8 May 2009. Retrieved 15 May 2009.
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"The EU Parliament 2009" (PDF) (in Swedish). 15 May 2009. Retrieved 15 May 2009.
"One in Two Swedes Don't Know There's an Election in June" (in Swedish). 20 May 2009. Archived from the original on 23 May 2009. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
"M Losing Support" (in Swedish). 21 May 2009. Retrieved 21 May 2009.
"Pirate Party on the way into the EU" (in Swedish). 21 May 2009. Retrieved 21 May 2009.
"Skop: S Biggest in Coming EU Election" (in Swedish). 22 May 2009. Retrieved 22 May 2009.
"Many Uncertain Voters in Coming EU Election" (in Swedish). 23 May 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
"Ameila, 21, on the Way to Brussels" (in Swedish). 29 May 2009. Archived from the original on 30 May 2009. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
"MP Could Be Third Largest Party in EU" (in Swedish). 29 May 2009. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
"M Losing Ground in Coming EU Election" (in Swedish). 30 May 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2009.
"Novus results" (PDF) (in Swedish). 3 June 2009. Retrieved 4 June 2009.
^ "Further Increases for Pirate Party" (in Swedish). 5 June 2009. Archived from the original on 14 June 2009. Retrieved 5 June 2009.
"Pirate Party Continues to Grow, Now Fourth" (in Swedish). 5 June 2009. Archived from the original on 8 June 2009. Retrieved 5 June 2009.
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"Val till Europaparlamentet – Röster" (in Swedish). Election Authority. 11 June 2009. Archived from the original on 12 August 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2009.
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