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The Parliament House, seat of the Riksdag since 1905. The Riksdag (Swedish: [ˈrɪ̌ksdɑː(ɡ)] ⓘ, lit. transl. "diet of the realm"; also Swedish: riksdagen [ˈrɪ̌ksdan] ⓘ or Sveriges riksdag [ˈsvæ̌rjɛs ˈrɪ̌ksdɑː(ɡ)] ⓘ) is the parliament and the supreme decision-making body of the Kingdom of Sweden.
The Parliament House (Swedish: Riksdagshuset [ˈrɪ̂ksdɑː(ɡ)sˌhʉːsɛt] ⓘ) is the seat of the parliament of Sweden, the Riksdag. It is located on nearly half of Helgeandsholmen (island), in the Gamla stan (old town) district of central Stockholm. [1]
The Old Parliament House on Riddarholmen, it served as the Riksdag's seat in 1833–1905. On the basis of the 1863 electoral reform bill the Estates voted in 1866 to dissolve the Riksdag of the Estates and establish a new Riksdag.
The electoral system in Sweden is proportional.Of the 349 seats in the national diet, the unicameral Riksdag, 310 are fixed constituency seats (Swedish: valkretsmandat) allocated to constituencies in relation to the number of people entitled to vote in each constituency (valkrets).
The Riksdag is made up of 349 seats elected by open list proportional representation, [3] with an electoral threshold of 4% of the national vote or alternatively 12% within a single constituency.
This is a list of members of the Riksdag, elected in the 2018 Swedish general election, for the term 2018–2022. List of MPs ... Seat Member of Parliament
According to a threshold rule, any one particular party must receive at least 4% of the votes to be allocated a seat in the Riksdag. Any party having broken the 1% threshold in the last two EU-parliament or Riksdag elections respectively will have their ballots printed and distributed by the authorities. [1]
The speaker of the Riksdag (Swedish: Riksdagens talman) is the presiding officer of the national unicameral legislature in Sweden. The Riksdag underwent profound changes in 1867, when the medieval Riksdag of the Estates was abolished. The new form of the Riksdag included two elected chambers, each with its own speaker.