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.Swedish Election Authority: Counting of votes and thresholds

Sweden was 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.Amelia Andersdotter

The new Pirate Party polled at 7.1%, giving it one seat, and from December 2011 two seats after the Treaty of Lisbon. 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%.

Opinion polls PartyLastelection29 April 2009DN / Synovate8 May 2009Expressen / Demoskop8 May 2009SvD / Sifo15 May 2009TV4 Group / Novus15 May 2009SvD / Sifo20 May 2009DN / Synovate21 May 2009Expressen / Demoskop21 May 2009TV4 Group / Novus21 May 2009Skop22 May 2009SvD / Sifo29 May 2009Expressen / Demoskop27 May 2009TV4 Group / Novus30 May 2009SvD / Sifo3 June 2009TV4 Group / Novus 5 June 2009Sifo5 June2009Synovate5 June 2009Expressen / Demoskop6 June 2009TV 4 / Novus  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% 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% 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% 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% 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% 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% 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% 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% 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% Feminist Initiative (fi)—1%————0.3% *———0.6%—————0.6%—  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%  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% 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% * Based on delta of +0.3% in 29 May poll.

Results

The final results were published by the Swedish Election Authority on 11 June 2009. From December 2011, the Pirate Party and Swedish Social Democratic Party had one more seat each after the Treaty of Lisbon.Members of the European Parliament for Sweden 2009–2014

Composition

Municipalities

Municipalities in which European party groups received the most votes: Greens-EFA: Lund, Gothenburg, Sundbyberg ALDE: Sunne, Valdemarsvik, Ydre EPP-ED: Danderyd, Vellinge, Lidingö PES: Överkalix, Kalix, Hagfors

Votes summary

Seats summary

See also Elections in Sweden List of political parties in Sweden 2009 European Parliament election Members of the European Parliament for Sweden 2009–2014

References

External links Swedish Election Authority (English) Swedish Election Authority: Elections in Sweden: The way it's done List of candidates in the European Parliament election, 2009 (Sweden) Europaparlamentets informationskontor i Sverige