2009 European Parliament election in Sweden

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.

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%

Sweden was 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

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.

2009 composition 2011 composition (post-Lisbon)
Party		Votes	%	Seats
				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

Composition

Municipalities

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

See also

• Elections in Sweden
• List of political parties in Sweden
• 2009 European Parliament election
• Members of the European Parliament for Sweden 2009–2014