Sweden

Levels of government

The future-elections page, published 16 October 2026, is about elections to the Riksdag and to regional and municipal councils. The distribution-of-seats page also describes region assemblies, municipal assemblies and the European Parliament. The European Parliament franchise on the right-to-vote page was not clear enough in the text retrieved, so it is not paraphrased here.

Riksdag seats

The distribution page, published 9 September 2026, says 349 seats are distributed: 310 permanent seats and 39 adjustment seats. It says a party needs at least four per cent of the votes in Sweden, with an exception for a party that receives at least twelve per cent inside a constituency, which then takes part in the distribution in that constituency.

The same page says a candidate is seated on personal votes only after a mark beside their name on at least five per cent of the party’s ballot papers in the constituency. Otherwise the order on the ballot is used. This site does not list those names. The page does not, in the text read, name the allocation formula. A formula is not added here.

Who can vote

The right-to-vote page, published 9 September 2026, says the population register is read 30 days before election day and that an entitled voter is then on the electoral roll. For the Riksdag it requires that the person is 18 no later than election day, is a Swedish citizen, and is or has been registered in the population register. The future-elections page says that Riksdag rule applies whether the person lives in Sweden or abroad.

For municipal and region assemblies the right-to-vote page requires age 18 by election day and a population-register record in that municipality and region. It then includes Swedish citizens, citizens of another EU country, Iceland or Norway, and citizens of another country or stateless people who have been in the population register for at least three consecutive years before election day.

How to vote

The future-elections page says that on election day the voter uses the assigned voting location on the voting card, open from 08:00 to 20:00, and that another assigned location cannot be used that day. It says early voting is at any early-voting location in Sweden, from 18 days before election day through election day, including at least one such location in each municipality on election day. It says the list of those locations is published closer to the election. It does not print the calendar dates of that 18-day window for 2030, so this site does not calculate them.

The right-to-vote page says a voting card is sent about three weeks before the election and shows which elections the person may vote in, plus the name, address and hours of the polling station. Postal voting from abroad was not described on the pages read, so it is not described here.