Election Name: | 2014 European Parliament election in Sweden |
Country: | Sweden |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 2009 European Parliament election in Sweden |
Previous Year: | 2009 |
Next Election: | 2019 European Parliament election in Sweden |
Next Year: | 2019 |
Seats For Election: | All 20 Swedish seats to the European Parliament |
Election Date: | 25 May 2014 |
Turnout: | 51.07% (5.54 pp)[1] |
Leader1: | Marita Ulvskog |
Party1: | Swedish Social Democratic Party |
Alliance1: | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats |
Last Election1: | 6 seats, 24.4% |
Seats1: | 5 |
Seat Change1: | 1 |
Popular Vote1: | 899,074 |
Percentage1: | 24.2% |
Swing1: | 0.2% |
Leader2: | Isabella Lövin |
Party2: | Green Party (Sweden) |
Alliance2: | The Greens–European Free Alliance |
Last Election2: | 2 seats, 11.0% |
Seats2: | 4 |
Seat Change2: | 2 |
Popular Vote2: | 572,591 |
Percentage2: | 15.4% |
Swing2: | 4.4% |
Leader3: | Gunnar Hökmark |
Party3: | Moderate Party |
Alliance3: | European People's Party (European Parliament group) |
Last Election3: | 4 seats, 18.8% |
Seats3: | 3 |
Seat Change3: | 1 |
Popular Vote3: | 507,488 |
Percentage3: | 13.6% |
Swing3: | 5.2% |
Leader4: | Marit Paulsen |
Party4: | Liberal People's Party (Sweden) |
Alliance4: | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group |
Last Election4: | 3 seats, 13.6% |
Seats4: | 2 |
Seat Change4: | 1 |
Popular Vote4: | 368,514 |
Percentage4: | 9.9% |
Swing4: | 3.7% |
Leader5: | Kristina Winberg |
Party5: | Sweden Democrats |
Alliance5: | Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy |
Last Election5: | 0 seats, 3.3% |
Seats5: | 2 |
Seat Change5: | 2 |
Popular Vote5: | 359,248 |
Percentage5: | 9.7% |
Swing5: | 6.4% |
Leader6: | Kent Johansson |
Party6: | Centre Party (Sweden) |
Alliance6: | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group |
Last Election6: | 1 seat, 5.5% |
Seats6: | 1 |
Seat Change6: | 0 |
Popular Vote6: | 241,101 |
Percentage6: | 6.5% |
Swing6: | 1.0% |
Leader7: | Malin Björk |
Party7: | Left Party (Sweden) |
Alliance7: | European United Left-Nordic Green Left |
Last Election7: | 1 seat, 5.7% |
Seats7: | 1 |
Seat Change7: | 0 |
Popular Vote7: | 234,272 |
Percentage7: | 6.3% |
Swing7: | 0.6% |
Leader8: | Lars Adaktusson |
Party8: | Christian Democrats (Sweden) |
Alliance8: | European People's Party (European Parliament group) |
Last Election8: | 1 seat, 4.7% |
Seats8: | 1 |
Seat Change8: | 0 |
Popular Vote8: | 220,574 |
Percentage8: | 5.9% |
Swing8: | 1.2% |
Leader9: | Soraya Post |
Party9: | Feminist Initiative (Sweden) |
Alliance9: | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats |
Last Election9: | 0 seats, 2.2% |
Seats9: | 1 |
Seat Change9: | 1 |
Popular Vote9: | 204,005 |
Percentage9: | 5.5% |
Swing9: | 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.
As a result of the election, the Pirate Party lost their seats and Feminist Initiative won a seat for the first time.
Distribution of Sweden's mandate during the previous election, turnout was 45.53%[2] in 2009
width=1px style="background-color: " | Social Democratic Party | 6 | width=1px bgcolor="" | Party of European Socialists | 195 | ||
width=1px style="background-color: " | Moderate Party | 4 | European People's Party | 275 | |||
width=1px style="background-color: " | Christian Democrats | 1 | |||||
width=1px style="background-color: " | Liberal People's Party | 3 | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe | 75 | |||
width=1px style="background-color: " | Centre Party | 1 | |||||
width=1px style="background-color: " | Green Party | 2 | width=1px style="background-color: " | European Green Party | 45 | ||
width=1px style="background-color: " | Pirate Party | 2 | width=1px bgcolor="" | European Pirate Party | 2 | ||
width=1px style="background-color: " | Left Party | 1 | width=1px style="background-color: " | Nordic Green Left Alliance | 2 | ||
See main article: Results of the 2014 European Parliament election in Sweden.
Sweden Democrats