Election results established

The election results have now been determined, the Electoral Authority writes in a press release.
Sweden’s 21 mandates are now distributed and none of the candidates who were further down on the parties’ lists managed to get a seat in parliament.
– A total of 10 of the 21 elected members have been elected to the European Parliament by personal votes. All of these would have been elected even without personal votes, given their position on the respective party’s name ballot, says Henrik Franzon, statistician at the Norwegian Electoral Authority.

On Sunday, the Swedish election to the EU Parliament was held and on Friday the Electoral Authority announced that the result had been determined.

“The county administrative boards’ final vote count was completed on Friday, June 14. The Electoral Authority has subsequently decided on mandate distribution between the parties, appointed members and substitutes on behalf of Sweden to the European Parliament and determined the final election result,” writes the Electoral Authority.

No one managed to get past

There was a long battle for the Liberals’ place and the Sweden Democrats’ last place in parliament. In order to be elected, a candidate must receive at least 5 percent of the party’s total votes.

Anna Maria Corazza Bildt from the Liberals gathered just over 1,600 votes less than the party’s top name Karin Karlsbro, who gets to keep her seat. The Sweden Democrats’ third name, Dick Erixon, was close to losing his place to the party’s fifth name on the list, Maria Rosander, but she was about 500 votes short of crossing into parliament.

The Left Party’s top candidate Jonas Sjöstedt became the candidate with the most personal ticks with just over 260,000 drunk ticks, which corresponds to 56 percent of the party’s votes.

A total of 4,240,469 Swedes voted, which gives an election result of 53.39 percent.