2014 European Parliament election in Sweden

2014 European Parliament election in Sweden

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All 20 Swedish seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	51.07% ( 5.54 pp)[1]
First party Second party Third party   Leader Marita Ulvskog Isabella Lövin Gunnar Hökmark Party Social Democrat Green Moderate Alliance S&D Greens/EFA EPP Last election 6 seats, 24.4% 2 seats, 11.0% 4 seats, 18.8% Seats won 5 4 3 Seat change 1 2 1 Popular vote 899,074 572,591 507,488 Percentage 24.2% 15.4% 13.6% Swing 0.2% 4.4% 5.2%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Marit Paulsen Kristina Winberg Kent Johansson Party Liberal Sweden Democrat Centre Alliance ALDE EFDD ALDE Last election 3 seats, 13.6% 0 seats, 3.3% 1 seat, 5.5% Seats won 2 2 1 Seat change 1 2 0 Popular vote 368,514 359,248 241,101 Percentage 9.9% 9.7% 6.5% Swing 3.7% 6.4% 1.0%   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Malin Björk Lars Adaktusson Soraya Post Party Left Christian Democrat Feminist Initiative Alliance GUE/NGL EPP S&D Last election 1 seat, 5.7% 1 seat, 4.7% 0 seats, 2.2% Seats won 1 1 1 Seat change 0 0 1 Popular vote 234,272 220,574 204,005 Percentage 6.3% 5.9% 5.5% Swing 0.6% 1.2% 3.3%

European Parliament elections in Sweden took place on 25 May 2014. At the election, twenty Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were from the Swedish constituency. In the election, voters choose members of registered Swedish parties whose elected members then form political groups in the European Parliament, together with members of parties from other Member States with the same political affiliation.

Results[]

Summary of the results of Sweden's 25 May 2014 election to the European Parliament

National party		European party	Main candidate	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Social Democrat (S)	S & D	Marita Ulvskog	899,074	24.19	0.22	5 / 20	1
	Green (MP)	Greens/EFA	Isabella Lövin	572,591	15.41	4.39	4 / 20	2
	Moderate (M)	EPP	Gunnar Hökmark	507,488	13.65	5.18	3 / 20	1
	Liberal (FP)	ALDE	Marit Paulsen	368,514	9.91	3.67	2 / 20	1
	Sweden Democrat (SD)	EFDD	Kristina Winberg	359,248	9.67	6.40	2 / 20	2
	Centre (C)	ALDE	Kent Johansson	241,101	6.49	1.02	1 / 20	0
	Left (V)	GUE/NGL	Malin Björk	234,272	6.30	0.54	1 / 20	0
	Christian Democrat (KD)	EPP	Lars Adaktusson	220,574	5.93	1.25	1 / 20	0
	Feminist Initiative (F!)	S & D	Soraya Post	204,005	5.49	3.27	1 / 20	1
	Pirate (PP)	Greens/EFA	Christian Engström	82,763	2.23	4.90	0 / 20	2
Others (non-incumbent parties or candidates that won less than 1% of the vote and no seats)			27,148	0.73	3.00	0 / 20	0
Valid votes				3,716,778	98.88
Blank and invalid votes				42,173	1.12
Totals				3,758,951	100.00	—	20 / 20	0
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout				7,359,962	51.07	5.54
Source: Val.se

Elected candidates[]

Moderate Party

• Anna Maria Corazza Bildt
• Gunnar Hökmark
• Christofer Fjellner

Centre Party

• Fredrick Federley

Liberal People's Party

• Marit Paulsen
• Cecilia Wikström

Christian Democrats

• Lars Adaktusson

Social Democrats

• Marita Ulvskog
• Olle Ludvigsson
• Jytte Guteland
• Jens Nilsson
• Anna Hedh

Left Party

• Malin Björk

Green Party

• Isabella Lövin
• Peter Eriksson
• Bodil Ceballos
• Max Andersson

Sweden Democrats

• Kristina Winberg
• Peter Lundgren

Feminist Initiative

• Soraya Post

Previous result[]

Distribution of Sweden's mandate during the previous election, Turnout was 45.53%^[2] in 2009

Swedish party		Seats/20	European party		Seats/754
	Social Democratic Party	6		Party of European Socialists	195
	Moderate Party	4		European People's Party	275
	Christian Democrats	1
	Liberal People's Party	3		Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe	75
	Centre Party	1
	Green Party	2		European Green Party	45
	Pirate Party	2		European Pirate Party	2
	Left Party	1		Nordic Green Left Alliance	2

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