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  • Lower turnout and more mobility among voters in areas with socioeconomic challenges

    The voting turnout in the 2022 election decreased most in areas with large socioeconomic challenges. It is also this area type that had the largest mobility of those entitled to vote between the elections in 2018 and 2022. Still, six out of the ten areas with higher voting turnout than expected were areas with large socioeconomic challenges.

  • Analysis of voter turnout in the 2022 general elections

    Voter turnout in the 2022 parliamentary elections was 84 percent. In Sweden, voter turnout is generally high, and this is true even after the decline in voter turnout in the 2022 election, from 87 percent in the 2018 parliamentary election.

  • Analysis of voter turnout in the 2018 general elections

    In the 2018 parliamentary elections, 87.2 percent of persons eligible to vote also chose to vote, which means that election turnout increased for the fourth consecutive election. At the same time, the analyses presented in a report indicate that although there is a high and rising level of voter turnout, this share varies between different groups in the population.

  • Big differences in turnout by level of education

    The voter turnout increased in the 2014 elections, but it did not increase in all parts of the country and there are still big differences between different population groups. For instance, the share is much bigger among those with higher level of education, particularly in the EU elections.

  • Less participation among persons with disabilities

    Election participation was somewhat lower among persons with disabilities compared with the rest of the population. This was noted in the European Parliament election as well as the Riksdag election in 2014. Above all, persons with reduced mobility, impaired vision or disorders from anxiety and distress voted to a lesser extent.