Swedish general election, 2010

Swedish general election, 2010

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All 349 seats to the Riksdag 175 seats are needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Mona Sahlin Fredrik Reinfeldt Peter Eriksson Maria Wetterstrand Party Social Democratic Moderate Green Alliance Red-Greens The Alliance Red-Greens Last election 130 97 19 Seats won 112 107 25 Seat change 18 10 6 Popular vote 1,827,497 1,791,766 437,435 Percentage 30.7% 30.1% 7.3%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Jan Björklund Maud Olofsson Jimmie Åkesson Party Liberal People's Centre Sweden Democrats Alliance The Alliance The Alliance Independent Last election 28 29 0 Seats won 24 23 20 Seat change 4 6 20 Popular vote 420,524 390,804 339,610 Percentage 7.1% 6.6% 5.7%   Seventh party Eighth party   Leader Lars Ohly Göran Hägglund Party Left Christian Democrats Alliance Red-Greens The Alliance Last election 22 24 Seats won 19 19 Seat change 3 5 Popular vote 334,053 333,696 Percentage 5.6% 5.6%
Largest party by district (left) and municipality (right) Red-Social Democratic, Blue-Moderate
Prime Minister before election Fredrik Reinfeldt Moderate Elected Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt Moderate

Fredrik Reinfeldt
Moderate

Fredrik Reinfeldt
Moderate

A general election to the Riksdag, the parliament of Sweden, was held on 19 September 2010. The main contenders of the election were the governing centre-right coalition the Alliance, consisting of the Moderate Party, the Centre Party, the Liberal People's Party and the Christian Democrats; and the opposition centre-left coalition the Red-Greens, consisting of the Social Democrats, the Left Party and the Green Party.

The Alliance received 49.27 percent of the votes (an increase by 1.03 pp from the previous election) and 173 seats in the parliament (a decrease by 5 seats and 2 short of an overall majority), while the Red-Greens received 43.60 percent of the vote (a decrease by 2.48 pp) and 156 seats (a decrease by 15 seats). The election also saw the nationalist Sweden Democrats entering parliament for the first time, as the sixth largest and only non-aligned of the eight parties elected to the parliament, by receiving 5.70 percent of the votes (an increase by 2.77 pp) and 20 seats.

The Alliance lost its absolute majority in the parliament but continued to govern as a minority government. The new parliament held its opening session on 5 October, with Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt presenting the annual government policy statement, along with changes to his cabinet.