| Election Name: | 2009 European Parliament election in Sweden |
| Country: | Sweden |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 2004 European Parliament election in Sweden |
| Previous Year: | 2004 |
| Next Election: | 2014 European Parliament election in Sweden |
| Next Year: | 2014 |
| Seats For Election: | 18 seats to the European Parliament (20 seats from December 2011) |
| Election Date: | 7 June 2009 |
| Turnout: | 45.53% (7.68 pp) |
| Leader1: | Marita Ulvskog |
| Party1: | Swedish Social Democratic Party |
| Alliance1: | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats |
| Last Election1: | 5 seats, 24.56% |
| Seats1: | 5 (6) |
| Seat Change1: | 0 (1) |
| Popular Vote1: | 773,513 |
| Percentage1: | 24.41% |
| Swing1: | 0.15% |
| Leader2: | Gunnar Hökmark |
| Party2: | Moderate Party |
| Alliance2: | European People's Party (European Parliament group) |
| Last Election2: | 4 seats, 18.25% |
| Seats2: | 4 |
| Seat Change2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 596,710 |
| Percentage2: | 18.83% |
| Swing2: | 0.58% |
| Leader3: | Marit Paulsen |
| Party3: | Liberal People's Party (Sweden) |
| Alliance3: | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group |
| Last Election3: | 2 seats, 9.86% |
| Seats3: | 3 |
| Seat Change3: | 1 |
| Popular Vote3: | 430,385 |
| Percentage3: | 13.58% |
| Swing3: | 3.72% |
| Leader4: | Carl Schlyter |
| Party4: | Green Party (Sweden) |
| Alliance4: | European Green Party |
| Last Election4: | 1 seat, 5.96% |
| Seats4: | 2 |
| Seat Change4: | 1 |
| Popular Vote4: | 349,114 |
| Percentage4: | 11.02% |
| Swing4: | 5.06% |
| Leader5: | Christian Engström |
| Party5: | Pirate Party (Sweden) |
| Alliance5: | None |
| Last Election5: | new |
| Seats5: | 1 (2) |
| Seat Change5: | 1 (2) |
| Popular Vote5: | 225,915 |
| Percentage5: | 7.13% |
| Swing5: | new |
| Leader6: | Eva-Britt Svensson |
| Party6: | Left Party (Sweden) |
| Alliance6: | European United Left–Nordic Green Left |
| Last Election6: | 2 seats, 12.79% |
| Seats6: | 1 |
| Seat Change6: | 1 |
| Popular Vote6: | 179,182 |
| Percentage6: | 5.66% |
| Swing6: | 7.13% |
| Leader7: | Lena Ek |
| Party7: | Centre Party (Sweden) |
| Alliance7: | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| Last Election7: | 1 seat, 6.26% |
| Seats7: | 1 |
| Seat Change7: | 0 |
| Popular Vote7: | 173,414 |
| Percentage7: | 5.47% |
| Swing7: | 0.79% |
| Leader8: | Ella Bohlin |
| Party8: | Christian Democrats (Sweden) |
| Alliance8: | European People's Party |
| Last Election8: | 1 seat, 5.68% |
| Seats8: | 1 |
| Seat Change8: | 0 |
| Popular Vote8: | 148,141 |
| Percentage8: | 4.68% |
| Swing8: | 1.00% |
The 2009 European Parliament election in Sweden was held on 7 June 2009 and determined the makeup of the Swedish delegation to the European Parliament. The election was held using a modified form of the Sainte-Laguë method of party-list proportional representation using the entire country as a single electoral constituency. There is a threshold limit of 4 percent for Swedish elections to the European Parliament, so that any party not receiving at least four percent of the votes will not be allocated any seats.[1]
Sweden will be allocated 18 seats in the European parliament for this term, a reduction from the 19 they were allocated in the 2004 election. From December 2011 Sweden has 20 seats.[2]
The new Pirate Party polled at 7.1%, giving it one seat, and from December 2011 two seats after the Treaty of Lisbon.[2] The eurosceptic June List saw the biggest slump in support, falling nearly 11% and losing all 3 seats.
Turnout increased compared to the last election, from 37.9% to 45.5%.
| Party | bgcolor=#BBBBBB align=center | Last election | 29 April 2009 DN / Synovate[3] | 8 May 2009 Expressen / Demoskop[4] | 8 May 2009 SvD / Sifo[5] | 15 May 2009 TV4 Group / Novus[6] | 15 May 2009 SvD / Sifo[7] | 20 May 2009 DN / Synovate[8] | 21 May 2009 Expressen / Demoskop[9] | 21 May 2009 TV4 Group / Novus[10] | 21 May 2009 Skop[11] | 22 May 2009 SvD / Sifo[12] | 29 May 2009 Expressen / Demoskop[13] | 27 May 2009 TV4 Group / Novus[14] | 30 May 2009 SvD / Sifo[15] | 3 June 2009 TV4 Group / Novus[16] | 5 June 2009 Sifo[17] | 5 June 2009 Synovate | 5 June 2009 Expressen / Demoskop[18] | 6 June 2009 TV 4 / Novus[19] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor= | Social Democrats (s) | 24.6% | 29.2% | 32% | 35.25% | 29.4% | 32.6% | 30.3% | 35.9% | 29.1% | 30.5% | 31.9% | 30.8% | 29.1% | 31.7% | 30.4% | 27.9% | 26.2% | 27.9% | 26.5% | |
| bgcolor= | Moderate Party (m) | 18.3% | 29.7% | 31% | 27.59% | 25.9% | 25.6% | 26.3% | 24.1% | 25.3% | 27.9% | 23.9% | 26.0% | 22.3% | 22.6% | 20.2% | 21.3% | 22.0% | 25.8% | 19.0% | |
| bgcolor= | Centre Party (c) | 6.3% | 5.4% | 5% | 4.71% | 5.9% | 5.6% | 5.7% | 7.4% | 4.8% | 5.8% | 5.5% | 5.7% | 5.0% | 5.2% | 5.5% | 5.1% | 6.2% | 5.4% | 5.9% | |
| bgcolor= | Liberal People's Party (fp) | 9.8% | 9.0% | 6% | 6.80% | 10.2% | 7.7% | 9.0% | 5.5% | 8.8% | 8.1% | 9.3% | 8.1% | 9.4% | 10.1% | 9.7% | 11.4% | 10.9% | 10.7% | 11.1% | |
| bgcolor= | Christian Democrats (kd) | 5.7% | 5.2% | 4% | 3.95% | 4.6% | 4.5% | 4.7% | 3.4% | 5.2% | 5.1% | 3.6% | 4.3% | 5.4% | 3.1% | 4.5% | 4.4% | 6.2% | 5.2% | 4.9% | |
| bgcolor= | Left Party (v) | 12.8% | 5.8% | 6% | 5.28% | 5.8% | 4.3% | 6.0% | 5.6% | 7.1% | 6.0% | 5.1% | 5.6% | 7.6% | 6.5% | 6.8% | 6.0% | 5.0% | 5.4% | 6.7% | |
| bgcolor= | Green Party (mp) | 5.9% | 7.0% | 6% | 7.90% | 6.7% | 8.3% | 9.1% | 7.6% | 8.7% | 7.9% | 9.2% | 8.1% | 10.8% | 10.2% | 10.5% | 10.9% | 11.0% | 6.8% | 10.2% | |
| bgcolor= | June List (jl) | 14.4% | 1.3% | 1% | 1.68% | 2.3% | 2.1% | 2.2% | 1.2% | 2.0% | 1.5% | 2.2% | 1.1% | 1.5% | 1.9% | 2.2% | 1.7% | 2.9% | 1.5% | 3.8% | |
| bgcolor= | Pirate Party (pp) | 5.1% | 5% | 3.38% | 5.6% | 5.5% | 5.4% | 7.9% | 6.0% | 4.0% | 6.1% | 8.2% | 6.2% | 6.0% | 6.7% | 8.2% | 6.1% | 8.8% | 8.5% | ||
| bgcolor= | Feminist Initiative (fi) | — | 1% | — | — | — | — | 0.3% * | — | — | — | 0.6% | — | — | — | — | — | 0.6% | — | ||
| bgcolor= | Sweden Democrats (sd) | 1.13% | — | 2% | 2.51% | 3.1% | 2.4% | — | 1.1% | 2.1% | 2.2% | 2.1% | 1.6% | 1.6% | 2.3% | 2.3% | — | — | 1.8% | 2.0% | |
| bgcolor=blue | Government (m, c, fp, kd) | 40.0% | 49.3% | 46% | 43.05% | 46.6% | 43.5% | 43.4% | 40.4% | 44.1% | 46.9% | 42.3% | 44.1% | 42.1% | 41.0% | 33.9% | 42.2% | 45.3% | 47.1% | 40.9% | |
| bgcolor=red | Opposition (s, v, mp) | 43.4% | 42.0% | 44% | 48.43% | 41.9% | 45.2% | 45.4% | 49.1% | 44.9% | 44.4% | 46.2% | 44.5% | 47.5% | 48.4% | 47.7% | 44.8% | 42.2% | 40.1% | 43.4% | |
| Others (jl., pp, fi, sd) | 15.5% | 6.4% | 9% | 7.57% | 11.0% | 10.0% | 7.6% | 11.1% | 10.1% | 7.7% | 10.4% | 11.5% | 9.3% | 10.2% | 11.2% | 9.9% | 9.0% | 12.7% | 14.3% | ||
See main article: Results of the 2009 European Parliament election in Sweden. The final results were published by the Swedish Election Authority on 11 June 2009.[20] From December 2011, the Pirate Party and Swedish Social Democratic Party had one more seat each after the Treaty of Lisbon.[21]
Municipalities in which European party groups received the most votes:
Elections in Sweden: The way it's done