2014 European Parliament election in Sweden

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.

European Parliament election in Sweden, 2014
25 May 2014
All 20 Swedish seats to the European Parliament
Turnout51.07% ( 5.54 pp)[1]
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Marita Ulvskog Isabella Lövin Gunnar Hökmark
Party Social Democratic 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 People's Sweden Democrats 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 Democrats 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%

Results
Main article: Results of the 2014 European Parliament election in Sweden
 Summary of the results of Sweden's 25 May 2014 election to the European Parliament
← 2009 • 2014 • 2019 →
National party European party Main candidate Votes % +/– Seats +/–
Social Democratic (S) S & D Marita Ulvskog 899,07424.190.22
5 / 20
1
Green (MP) Greens/EFA Isabella Lövin 572,59115.414.39
4 / 20
2
Moderate (M) EPP Gunnar Hökmark 507,48813.655.18
3 / 20
1
Liberal People's (FP) ALDE Marit Paulsen 368,5149.913.67
2 / 20
1
Sweden Democrats (SD) EFDD Kristina Winberg 359,2489.676.40
2 / 20
2
Centre (C) ALDE Kent Johansson 241,1016.491.02
1 / 20
0
Left (V) GUE/NGL Malin Björk 234,2726.300.54
1 / 20
0
Christian Democrats (KD) EPP Lars Adaktusson 220,5745.931.25
1 / 20
0
Feminist Initiative (F!) S & D Soraya Post 204,0055.493.27
1 / 20
1
Pirate (PP) Greens/EFA Christian Engström 82,7632.234.90
0 / 20
2
Others (non-incumbent parties or candidates that won less than 1% of the vote and no seats) 27,1480.733.00
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

Centre Party

Liberal People's Party

Christian Democrats

Social Democrats

Left Party

Green Party

Sweden Democrats

Feminist Initiative

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

References
  1. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2014-results/en/country-results-se-2014.html
  2. https://accountabilityreport.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=150&action=edit&message=6&postpost=v2
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