Swedish general election, 2018

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9 September 2018

All 349 seats to the Riksdag
175 seats are needed for a majority


Leader	Stefan Löfven	Anna Kinberg Batra	Jimmie Åkesson
Party	Social Democratic	Moderate	Sweden Democrats
Alliance	Löfven Cabinet	The Alliance	none
Leader since	2012	2015	2005
Last election	113 seats, 31.0%	84 seats, 23.3%	49 seats, 12.9%
Current seats	113	84	48


Leader	Gustav Fridolin Isabella Lövin	Annie Lööf	Jonas Sjöstedt
Party	Green	Centre	Left
Alliance	Löfven Cabinet	The Alliance	none
Leader since	2011 2016	2011	2012
Last election	25 seats, 6.9%	22 seats, 6.1%	21 seats, 5.7%
Current seats	25	22	21


Leader	Jan Björklund	Ebba Busch Thor
Party	Liberals	Christian Democrats
Alliance	The Alliance	The Alliance
Leader since	2007	2015
Last election	19 seats, 5.4%	16 seats, 4.6%
Current seats	19	16

Incumbent Prime Minister

Stefan Löfven
Social Democratic

The next Swedish general election will be held in Sweden on or before 9 September 2018 to elect the members of the national law-making assembly, the Riksdag (Riksdagen).

The Swedish Riksdag is made up of 349 MPs, and all are elected through proportional representation on multi-member party lists that are either regional (most major parties) or national (Sweden Democrats). Each of the 29 constituencies has a set number of parliamentarians that is divided through constituency results to ensure regional representation. Then the other MPs are elected through a proportional balancing to ensure that the numbers of elected MPs for the various parties accurately represent the votes of the electorate. The Swedish constitution (1974:152) 1 Ch. 4 § says that the Riksdag is responsible for taxation and making laws, and 1 Ch. 6 § says that the government is held responsible to the Riksdag. In other words, this means that Sweden has parliamentarism in a constitutional monarchy—ensuring that the government is appointed by the people's representatives and the Prime Minister is therefore indirectly elected.

The Social Democratic Party (S; Socialdemokraterna) is the largest political party in the Swedish Riksdag, with 113 of the 349 seats. It is the major component of the incumbent Löfven Cabinet, in which it works with the Green Party. Its current party leader Stefan Löfven has been Prime Minister of Sweden since 3 October 2014, and has said he will seek a mandate to continue his Löfven Cabinet. He said that he intended to call for an extra general election after his cabinet's budget was voted down by the opposition, the first extra general election since 1958. However the extra general election was 'cancelled' on 27 December 2014, two days before Löfven was to call it, following a budgetary procedure agreement with the Alliance.

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