Sweden 2018 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Swedish Social Democratic Party won 100 of 349 seats with 28.3% of the vote; 87.2% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.4 points on 2014.
- Sweden
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swedish Social Democratic Party | 100 | −13 | 28.3 | −2.8 | 1,830,386 |
| Moderate Party | 70 | −14 | 19.8 | −3.5 | 1,284,698 |
| Sweden Democrats | 62 | +13 | 17.5 | +4.7 | 1,135,627 |
| Centre Party | 31 | +9 | 8.6 | +2.5 | 557,500 |
| Left Party | 28 | +7 | 8.0 | +2.3 | 518,454 |
| Christian Democrats | 22 | +6 | 6.3 | +1.8 | 409,478 |
| Liberals | 20 | +1 | 5.5 | +0.1 | 355,546 |
| Green Party | 16 | −9 | 4.4 | −2.5 | 285,899 |
| Feminist Initiative | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | −2.7 | 29,665 |
± is the change against the Sweden 2014 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Swedish Social Democratic Party 1,830,386
- Moderate Party 1,284,698
- Sweden Democrats 1,135,627
- Centre Party 557,500
- Left Party 518,454
- Christian Democrats 409,478
- Liberals 355,546
- Green Party 285,899
- Feminist Initiative 29,665
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
Share of the vote
Turnout
87.2% of the 7,495,936 registered voters cast a ballot (6,535,271 ballots), up 1.4 points on 2014. 6,476,725 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1985 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Swedish Social Democratic Party28.3% of votes28.7% of seats
- Moderate Party19.8% of votes20.1% of seats
- Sweden Democrats17.5% of votes17.8% of seats
- Centre Party8.6% of votes8.9% of seats
- Left Party8.0% of votes8.0% of seats
- Christian Democrats6.3% of votes6.3% of seats
- Liberals5.5% of votes5.7% of seats
- Green Party4.4% of votes4.6% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 0.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.8 by votes and 5.6 by seats; Swedish Social Democratic Party led Moderate Party by 8.4 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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