In Sweden, the Moderate Party and the Sweden Democrats are more popular among men than among women as of December 2023. Respectively, 18 percent and 29 percent of men responded in a survey that they would vote for these parties, compared to 16 percent each for women. On the other hand, female voters are especially overrepresented among the voters of the Social Democratic Party, with 43 percent compared to the 29 percent among male voters. Among both genders, the Social Democrats was the most popular party, but only marginally among men.

Abstract (en): The Swedish Election Study, 1960, was conducted by the Institute of Political Science, the University of Goteborg, Sweden, as part of a political behavior research program that studied Riksdag (parliamentary) elections in the period 1956-1970. This study carried out an electorate survey in two stages with two different subsamples. Respondents in Subsample A were interviewed before the election, and were asked to complete a short mail-in questionnaire after the election. Subsample B was only interviewed in the weeks immediately following the election. Information was gathered about the respondents' communities, their position and mobility within those communities, and their exposure to the information media (television, local and national newspapers, radio, magazines, and political pamphlets). Respondents were also asked to rate their interest in various topics such as crime, political news, international news, sports, editorials, and economics, and to relate their opinions on the media and these topics to the 1960 election. Questions also probed respondents' reactions to existing political issues and to the government's related policies. Demographic data include sex, marital status, year of marriage, year of birth, income, spouse's income, and family income. Swedish citizens born during the period 1880-1938 and eligible to vote. Two-stage probability sample drawn from the Swedish Central Bureau of Statistics' sampling framework, consisting of a nationwide net of primary sampling units. Within 70 primary sampling units, names were drawn from population registers using a procedure that excluded persons not eligible to vote. For the purposes of this study, the resulting sample was split into two subsamples of equal size.

This statistic shows the share of the total votes each political party received during the Parliament elections on September 9, 2018 in Sweden. Arbetarepartiet-Socialdemokraterna was the biggest party in the parliament with 28.26 percent of votes. In second place came Moderaterna with 19.84 percent of the total votes. Sverigedemokraterna ranked third with an election result of 17.53 percent. Swedish Parliament (Riksdag) elections are held every four years. The next parliamentary election is set for 2022.

Abstract (en): This dataset contains a systematically selected subsample of 200 of the 3,356 persons who were interviewed for the 1968 Swedish Election Study, a survey which queried Swedes about their political attitudes, preferences and behavior. Swedes eligible to vote. Probability sample. Variables in this subsample differ somewhat from those in the original dataset: variables 3, 7, 8, 20, 22, 443, 453, 454, 467, 468, 479, 480, 484 and 485 have been excluded and variables 24, 451, 452, 460, 461, 465, 466, 477 and 478 have been recoded to fewer categories than in the original version of the survey data. Though a machine-readable codebook for the original complete dataset is available from ICPSR, access to the original dataset is possible only through the Swedish Social Science Data Service, Goeteborg University, Box 5048, S-402 21 Goeteborg, Sweden. Machine-readable documentation is in Swedish.

This dataset was created primarily for teaching purposes, enabling students to replicate original analyses but also to explore the usefulness of alternative modes of analysis or to test alternative hypotheses. The data were collected from a representative sample of the Swedish electorate at the time of the 1964 Riksdag election in Sweden. Variables ascertained the respondents' voting behavior, party affiliation, and interest in politics. Demographic information includes level of education, occupation, socioeconomic stratum, social mobility, membership in labor unions, and frequency of church attendance, as well as sex, age, and marital status. In order to facilitate the use of the data for instructional purposes, several summary classifications and variables in collapsed versions were included in the dataset.

In September 2022, the population of Sweden elected a new parliament, four years after the previous election. In the election, the Social Democratic Party became the largest party in terms of share of votes, but the center-right block formed a government afterwards. A year on, the Social Democrats had increased their support even further.

High voter turnout
In the parliamentary election in 2022, as many as 84 percent of the eligible voters in Sweden casted their vote. This was one of the highest turnouts throughout the world in recent years.

High share of women - but not above 50 percent
Sweden is often seen as a country with a high level of gender equality, and this is the case for share of women in the Parliament. In 2022, 46 percent of the parliamentarians were female. However, the country has yet to beat the 50 percent mark. The same year, 45 percent of the candidates for the election were women.

This is the sixteenth election study carried out in Sweden in connection with a Swedish general election. Many of the questions are replications of questions asked in one or several of the previous surveys, but there are also a number of questions not asked before. Purpose: Explain why people vote as they do and why an election ends in a particular way. Track and follow trends in the Swedish electoral democracy and make comparisons with other countries. Detta är den sextonde riksomfattande studien i serien undersökningar kring partival, valdeltagande och opinionsbildning inom den svenska valmanskåren i samband med ett riksdagsval. Undersökningen ingår som steg två i panelen 2002-2006 och som steg ett i panelen 2006-2010. Ett stort antal av frågorna har ställts i en eller flera tidigare valundersökningar. Syfte: Förklara varför väljare röstar som de gör och varför val slutar som de gör. Spåra och följa trender i svensk valdemokrati och göra jämförelser med utvecklingen i andra länder. Face-to-face interview Personlig intervju Self-administered questionnaire: paper Självadministrerat frågeformulär: papper Elections Government International polit... Internationell poli... POLITICS POLITIK Political Science Political behaviour... Politiska beteenden... Regering Samhällsvetenskap Social Sciences Statsvetenskap Val election campaigns elections electoral issues inrikespolitik internal politics parliamentary elect... partiidentifikation partipolitik party identification party politics political allegiance political attitudes political behaviour political groups political interest political issues political leaders political participa... political parties political systems political systems a... politicians politics politik politiker politisk anhängare politiska frågor politiska grupper politiska ledare politiska partier politiska system politiska system oc... politiska åsikter politiskt beteende politiskt deltagande politiskt intresse riksdagsval röstavsikt röstning val valfrågor valkampanjer voting voting intention

Detta är den fjortonde valundersökning som genomförts i Sverige i samband med ett svenskt riksdagsval. Många frågor har ställts i en eller flera av de tidigare undersökningarna, men det finns också ett antal nya frågor. Respondenten fick ange hur mycket man tar del av politiska frågor i massmedia; politiskt intresse i allmänhet och politiska diskussioner bland familj och vänner; viktiga frågor för beslut hur man ska rösta; vilka partier man vill ska bilda regering efter valet och vem man föredrar som statsminister. Det fanns också en rad frågor om de politiska partiernas inställning till: sysselsättning, miljö, skatter, svensk ekonomi, energi och kärnkraft, utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik, social trygghet, äldreomsorg, Europeiska unionen, flyktingar, lag och ordning, jämställdhet mellan män och kvinnor, utbildning och barnomsorg. Politiska partier och partiledare placerades på en skala som sträckte sig från starkt ogillade till starkt gillade. Respondenterna fick också ge sin åsikt om socialdemokraterna och moderaterna och deras partiledare med hänsyn till hur pålitliga, inspirerande och sympatiska de är och hur mycket de vet om vad vanliga människor tycker. De blev också tillfrågade om hur stort deras förtroende för svenska politiker är. Ett antal frågor handlade om partipreferens; röstning i valet i september; vad som är viktigt när man väljer parti; och hur man röstat i tidigare val. Respondenten fick också placera de politiska partierna samt sig själv på en politisk vänster-högerskala och en skala gällande uppfattning om EMU.

Syfte: Förklara varför väljare röstar som de gör och varför val slutar som de gör. Spåra och följa trender i svensk valdemokrati och göra jämförelser med utvecklingen i andra länder.

Sweden: Years of parliamentary elections: For that indicator, we provide data for Sweden from 1960 to 2022. The average value for Sweden during that period was 0.3 1 elections, 0 otherwise with a minimum of 0 1 elections, 0 otherwise in 1961 and a maximum of 1 1 elections, 0 otherwise in 1960. The latest value from 2022 is 1 1 elections, 0 otherwise. For comparison, the world average in 2022 based on 171 countries is 0.20 1 elections, 0 otherwise.

Många av de grövsta brotten mot de mänskliga rättigheterna i världen idag sker i samband med val. Våld eller hot om våld, trakasserier, påtryckningar, massarresteringar, röstköp eller direkt valfusk hotar den demokratiska processen i många länder som nyligen övergått till demokrati, eller förhindrar demokrati från att alls uppkomma. Det finns en bred flora av internationella aktörer, från enskilda NGO:s till internationella organisationer, som försöker komma till rätta med dessa problem, och som utfärdar starka handlingsrekommendationer för hur val ska kunna hållas under fria och rättvisa former. Den måttstock som då i allmänhet används kommer från de etablerade demokratierna i väst. De etablerade demokratierna anses ha en så välfungerande valprocedur att vi oftast tar dess funktionssätt för given. Men att anordna ett nationellt val är en oerhört komplicerad administrativ process. Egentligen vet vi slående lite om hur denna process en gång kunde börja fungera så väl. Detta forskningsprojekt kommer därför att studera övergången från korrupta till fria och rättvisa val i etablerade demokratier. En ny och växande litteratur om detta ämne har sett dagens ljus tack vare ett tidigare outforskat historiskt material: valöverklaganden till myndigheterna, där någon av valets kontrahenter anför besvär mot felaktigheter som anses ha begåtts i valproceduren. Historiska och systematiska studier av dessa valbesvär har redan givit nya insikter om hur valen fungerade före demokratins mer institutionaliserade genombrott i flera etablerade västdemokratier.

Datamängden består av just denna typ av valrelaterade rättsfrågor i Sverige historiskt, uppdelade på individuella besvär från 1700-talets början till 1800-talets mitt. I dataset 001 återfinns i de flesta fall fullgod information om ärendet, extraherad från litteratur och Riksarkivets samlingar. Till många ärenden kan en eller flera fotokopior kopplas, vilka återfinns i dataset 002.

Syfte:

Det första syftet med detta forskningsprojekt är att studera valöverklaganden i Sverige, från 1719 till den allmänna rösträttens införande i början av det förra seklet. Det andra syftet med projektet är att jämföra det svenska fallet med motsvarande erfarenheter från andra länder.

Detta dataset utgörs av en Microsoft Excel-fil innehållande framtagen information om valrelaterade besvär i Sverige mellan åren 1713 och 1869. Filen delas upp i tre flikar: Inrikescivilexpeditionen (1713-1812), Justitierevisionen (1726-1865) och Justitierevisionen (1866-1869). Dessa tre förteckningar är strukturellt väldigt lika varandra trots att variablerna kan variera något. Datasetet är endast tillgängligt i excelformat i dagsläget.

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The Swedish election study 1979 was carried out in connection with the general election in September. Many of the questions are replications of questions asked in previous election studies. In this study the respondents specifies for each political party what they appreciates and what they dislikes with the party´s policy. There is also an evaluation of party politics in different political issues, such as employment, education, child care and private enterprises. This is the first of the election studies to include a feeling thermometer, where the respondent has to position each of the political parties, as well as the party leaders, on a scale from -5 (dislikes very much) to +5 (likes very much). Since this study is the first that took place after a period of non-Social Democratic government, the respondent has to give a judgement over the two formations of Government (the three-party government 1976-1978 and the liberal government 1978-1979) which took place during this period, as well as an individual judgement of each of the parties in power and of the Social Democratic party as a opposition party. Two issues with special interest in this study are nuclear power and wage-earners´ investment fund.

Purpose:

Explain why people vote as they do and why an election ends in a particular way. Track and follow trends in the Swedish electoral democracy and make comparisons with other countries.

The Swedish election study 1985 was carried out in connection with the general election on September 17. Many of the questions are replications of questions asked in previous election studies. The respondent were asked about newspaper reading habits, i.e. what newspaper the respondent reads, how many days a week, which political party the newspaper supports, and interest in articles about national, local and international politics. There were also questions about the newsprograms in radio and television. The respondent had to name the most important issues in influencing vote and what issues she/he considered as the most important in the nearest future. There were also a number of questions on the opinions of the parties regarding: employment, environment, wage-earners´ investment fund, taxes, the Swedish economy, foreign affairs and security policy, social safety, and child care. Furthermore the respondent was asked to give marks from -5 to +5 to political parties, party leaders, and different formations of government during the last decade. Different issues to give own opinion on and parties´ position on: nuclear power, wage-earners´ investment fund, public sector, VAT on food, sickness benefit, and child care allowance.

Purpose:

Explain why people vote as they do and why an election ends in a particular way. Track and follow trends in the Swedish electoral democracy and make comparisons with other countries.

This dataset contains 2325 sponsored political ads collected during the 2018 Swedish election campaign. The ads were crowd sourced as part of the ProPublica political ads collection initiative and presented on the website https://www.politiskannonsering.se. Volunteers for the collection were recruited in Facebook groups for journalists, mailing lists and in twitter posts. This means that the dataset does not represent all ads and may lack ads for target groups not participating in the collection. Ads were collected through a desktop browser plugin (for Chrome and Firefox). This means that no ads that were targeted at mobile users were collected. (2018-11-01)

Election results for all electoral districts at the 2002 parliamentary election in Sweden. Contains information on the total number of eligible voters, number of voters, number of valid and invalid ballots and the number of postal votes. In addition, there is information on the number of votes for the major parties.

Swedish party programs and election manifestos from 1897 until today. All documents are also open available at page: https://snd.gu.se/vivill, where it is possible to search in the documents. Swedish party programs and election manifestos builds on the "Vi vill …! Hundra år av partipolitiska viljeyttringar" ("We want…! A hundred years of political party declarations") project, which the predecessor of SND, SSD, conducted in 2000–2002. The purpose of this project was to collect the programs and manifestos that the political parties had produced during the 20th century. In these texts, you can trace the development of the political parties in terms of their language, politics, and ideology. The material also provides an overview of which questions have been essential for the development of Sweden. The selection of election manifestos builds on work done by Sven-Olov Håkansson in "Svenska valprogram 1902–1952" (”Swedish election programs 1902–1952”), and materials collected and used in the research project "Partiernas opinionspåverkan" (“Political party influence on public opinions”), POP, by Peter Esaiasson and Nicklas Håkansson. At first, only political parties in the Swedish Parliament (Sveriges riksdag) were represented in the material. Later additions have given a broader selection of parties as well as party documents related to the European Parliament elections. In the case of party programs, we have searched in research libraries and people’s movement libraries, as well as in the archives of the political parties. As there is varying degrees of knowledge about which programs have been produced, we are aware that we have probably been unable to find an unknown number of documents that could otherwise have been included in the collection. This project was made possible thanks to John-Erik Ågotnes at NSD (Norsk Samfunnsvitenskapelig Datatjenste, now SIKT), the Norwegian counterpart to SSD, which in 1997 published a CD with Norwegian party programmes. Ågotnes allowed SSD free use of the software he had developed for his project. The "Vi vill …" project was awarded financial support from the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond grant for support to research infrastructures. De svenska partiernas partiprogram och valmanifest från 1897 fram till idag. Dokumenten finns öppet tillgängliga via denna länk: https://snd.gu.se/vivill. Här går också att söka i dokumenten. Svenska partiprogram och valmanifest bygger på projektet "Vi vill....! Hundra år av partipolitiska viljeyttringar" som genomfördes vid Svensk samhällsvetenskaplig datatjänst (SSD) 2000-2002. Projektet syftade till att sammanställa de partiprogram och manifest som de politiska partierna producerat under 1900-talet. I dessa texter kan man spåra partiernas utveckling, både vad gäller språkbruk, politik och ideologi. De ger även en god överblick över de frågor som varit väsentliga för vårt lands utveckling. Samtliga partiprogram och valmanifest i databasen finns i .pdf och .txt format. De finns även tillgängliga hos Språkbanken som en korpus vilket medför ytterligare möjligheter för forskning på materialet. Urvalet av valmanifest omfattade till en början endast riksdagspartier, då det baserades på Sven-Olov Håkansson studie "Svenska valprogram 1902-1952" samt forskningsprojektet "Partiernas opinionspåverkan", POP, av Peter Esaiasson och Nicklas Håkansson. Materialet har sedan kompletterats och urvalet har breddats till att exempelvis omfatta dokument för Europaparlamentet samt för partier utanför riksdagen. Fortfarande saknas ett okänt antal dokument som skulle kunna ingå i samlingen.

The electoral support of the different political parties at the parliamentary election in Sweden in 2022 varied between the 29 electoral districts. For instance, the Social Democratic Party was especially popular in the northern counties of Västerbotten, Västernorrland, and Norrbotten, receiving around 40 percent of the votes there. Moreover, the right-wing Sweden Democrats received the highest share of its votes in the southern districts such as Skåne County North and East, Skåne County West, as well as Blekinge County. Furthermore, the Green Party was more popular in the larger cities of Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö than in the larger, more rural districts. In total, the Social Democratic Party received the largest share of the votes in the election, but still had to concede defeat to the center-right block.

Election returns for all electoral districts in Sweden. Includes information on the total number of persons entitled to vote in the local elections, and separately the number of immigrants who have not become citizens of Sweden, but were entitled to vote in this election according to a new law, number of persons who actually voted, and number of valid and invalid ballots respectively.

The election survey was conducted in Swedish and collected after the 2007 parliamentary elections. It is part of a four-year research project exploring politics in Swedish-speaking Finland (Svensk politik i Finland - beteende, opinion, framtid (2007-20010)). First, the respondents were queried how interested they were in politics and how much they followed the parliamentary elections in different media. The respondents' identification with various groups, self-perceived social class, and the stability of their political party preference were investigated, as well as what kind of measures they would be willing to take to promote things they considered important. The respondents were also presented with a set of attitudinal statements on voting, participating in parliamentary elections, political participation, political power, institutions, the Swedish People's Party in Finland, and services provided in Swedish. Some questions pertained to the Internet. The respondents were asked whether they had signed online petitions, contacted political decision-makers, discussed politics, or participated in other discussions. Municipal elected offices and organisational participation were also charted in the survey. The respondents were also asked to indicate the performance of Matti Vanhanen's Government, and to place different political parties as well as themselves on a left-right scale. Some questions examined how well political parties had distinguished themselves during the election campaign and the functioning of democracy in Finland. In addition, the respondents were asked whether they had voted in the 2007 parliamentary elections, and if not, what the reason for abstaining from voting was. Those who had voted were asked which party they had voted, which factors had affected their party choice, and whether the candidate or the party was a more important selection criterion. The respondents also evaluated how the Government had succeeded in managing the issues related to Swedish-speaking Finns and the status of Åland. Additionally, the respondents indicated which language was spoken at their home, how well they could speak Finnish, and how satisfied they were with their financial situation and life in general. Background variables included the respondent's year of birth, gender, education, marital status, economic activity, occupational group, household size, household income, region of residence, language spoken at home, language proportion in municipality of residence, religiosity, and electoral district.

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