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General elections were held in Sweden on 19 September 2010 to elect the 349 members of the Riksdag.The main contenders of the election were the governing centre-right coalition the Alliance, consisting of the Moderate Party, the Centre Party, the Liberal People's Party and the Christian Democrats; and the opposition centre-left coalition the Red-Greens, consisting of the Social Democrats, the ...
Location Share Votes S M MP FP C SD V KD Other Left Right; East Middle Sweden: 16.9 1,008,719 339,529 280,033 74,588 70,625 63,322 57,363 54,189 55,358 13,712
8,9 June 2010 Rinkeby riots, first significant rioting in an immigrant neighborhood; 19 September - 2010 Swedish general election was held, it saw the Nationalist Sweden Democrats entering parliament for the first time, as the sixth largest and only non-aligned of the eight parties elected to the parliament, by receiving 5.70 percent of the votes (an increase by 2.77 pp) and 20 seats.
This is a list of members of the Swedish parliament for the term 2010–2014. The MPs were elected in the general election held on 19 September 2010 and took office on 4 October 2010. [1] The next general election, when a new parliament will be elected, is scheduled to take place in 2014.
Elections to the 20 county councils (Swedish: landsting) and 290 municipal assemblies (kommunfullmäktige) – all using almost the same electoral system – are held concurrently with the legislative elections on the second Sunday in September (with effect from 2014; until 2010 they had been held on the third Sunday in September).
The elections in Sweden to the European Parliament marked the first electoral setback for the Swedish populist party with far-right roots that grabbed more than 13% of the votes but came fourth ...
The following MPs were elected in the 2006 Swedish general election and will serve until the 2010 Swedish general election. Members of the center-right Cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt , the ruling coalition during this term, are marked in bold, party leaders of the seven parties represented in the Riksdag in italic.
Sweden’s hopes of quickly following Finland into NATO membership have alighted on Turkey’s presidential election in May, in which recent polls show President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 20-year ...