Sweden general election, 2002

Swedish general election, 2002

← 1998 15 September 2002 2006 →
All 349 seats to the Riksdag 175 seats were needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Göran Persson Bo Lundgren Lars Leijonborg Party Social Democratic Moderate Liberal People's Alliance Centre-left Centre-right Centre-right Last election 131 seats 82 seats 17 seats Seats won 144 55 48 Seat change 13 27 31 Popular vote 2,113,560 809,041 710,312 Percentage 39.85% 15.26% 13.39%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Alf Svensson Gudrun Schyman Maud Olofsson Party Christian Democrats Left Centre Alliance Centre-right Centre-right Last election 42 seats 43 seats 18 seats Seats won 33 30 22 Seat change 9 13 4 Popular vote 485,235 444,854 328,428 Percentage 9.15% 8.39% 6.19%   Seventh party   Leader Peter Eriksson Maria Wetterstrand Party Green Alliance Centre-left Last election 16 seats Seats won 17 Seat change 1 Popular vote 246,392 Percentage 4.65%
Largest party by district (left) and municipality (right) Red-Social Democratic, Blue-Moderate
PM before election Göran Persson Social Democratic Elected PM Göran Persson Social Democratic

Göran Persson
Social Democratic

Göran Persson
Social Democratic

General elections were held in Sweden on 15 September 2002, alongside municipal and county council elections. The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in the Riksdag, winning 144 of the 349 seats.

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.

Votes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes within the coalition that won relative majority.

Cartogram of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast.

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.

Votes by municipality as a scale from red/Left-wing bloc to blue/Centre-right bloc.

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.