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Gotland County (constituency)
Gotland County is a constituency of the Riksdag The Riksdag (, ; also sv, riksdagen or ''Sveriges riksdag'' ) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members (), elected proportionally and se ..., currently electing 2 of its 349 members. Results 2022 2018 References Riksdag constituencies Gotland County {{Sweden-poli-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riksdag
The Riksdag (, ; also sv, riksdagen or ''Sveriges riksdag'' ) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members (), elected proportionally and serving, since 1994, fixed four-year terms. The 2022 Swedish general election is the most recent general election. The constitutional mandates of the Riksdag are enumerated in the ''Instrument of Government'' (), and its internal workings are specified in greater detail in the Riksdag Act ().Instrument of Government as of 2012. Retrieved on 16 November 2012. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Democrats (Sweden)
The Christian Democrats ( sv, Kristdemokraterna ; KD) is a Christian-democratic political party in Sweden founded in March 1964. It first entered parliament in 1985, through electoral cooperation with the Centre Party, and in 1991 broke through to win seats by itself. The party leader since 25 April 2015 has been Ebba Busch. She succeeded Göran Hägglund, who had been leader since 2004. The party name was for a long time abbreviated to KDS (standing for , Christian Democratic Unity), until 1996, when the party changed its name to the current ''Christian Democrats'' and its abbreviation to ''KD''. The KD was a minor party in the centre-right Alliance coalition government led by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt between 2006 and 2014 and later a part of the centre-right opposition until it dissolved in January 2019. Since 2021 the KD mainly cooperates with the Moderate Party, Liberals and the Sweden Democrats. Ideology According to the party their five most important policy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of Sweden (1995)
The Communist Party of Sweden ( sv, Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti) is a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist communist party in Sweden and continuation of Workers' Party – The Communists ( sv, Arbetarpartiet Kommunisterna, links=no, APK). History The Flamman group, an orthodox pro-Soviet Union, Soviet section within Left Party (Sweden), Left Party – The Communists (''Vänsterpartiet Kommunisterna''), emerged as an internal fraction when C.-H. Hermansson took over as party leader and distanced the party from Moscow. The group was centered on the party newspaper ''Flamman, Norrskensflamman'' ('The Flame of the Aurora Borealis'; usually just called ''Flamman''), the regional party publication in Norrbotten County. The fraction worked as a parallel party centre, and relations between it and the party leadership soured. At the party congress in 1975, when Hermansson stepped down as party leader, the ''Flamman'' group launched Rolf Hagel as its candidate for the party leadersh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuance Party
The Nuance Party ( sv, Partiet Nyans) is a political party in Sweden founded in 2019. According to national broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT), the party aims mainly at the country's Muslim population. History The Nuance Party was founded in August 2019 by Mikail Yüksel, a Turkish-born politician who had been expelled from the Centre Party for alleged links to the Turkish ultranationalist group the Grey Wolves. In his founding statement, he said that Islamophobia should be a criminal offence, and that Sweden's Muslims should have a constitutional definition as a minority. The party was officially launched in September 2019 and registered with Sweden's Election Authority on 31 October 2019 to contest the 2022 Swedish general election, as well as the 2024 European Parliament election in Sweden. ''Dagens Nyheter'', Sweden's newspaper of record, reported in July 2022 that one in every seven of the party's electoral candidates was a convicted criminal. One of these, Bash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordic Resistance Movement
The Nordic Resistance Movement; Norwegian: nb, Nordiske motstandsbevegelsen, NMB; nn, Nordiske motstandsrørsla NMR; fi, Pohjoismainen Vastarintaliike, PVL; is, Norræna mótstöðuhreyfingin, NMH; da, Den nordiske modstandsbevægelse, NMB, group=Note is a pan-Nordic neo-Nazi movement in the Nordic countries and a political party in Sweden. Besides Sweden, it is established in Norway, Denmark and Iceland, and formerly in Finland before it was banned in 2019. The NRM has been described as a terrorist organization due to their aim of abolishing democracy along with their paramilitary activities, weapons caches and connections to proscribed terrorist organizations such as the Russian Imperial Movement and National Action. There is an ongoing effort in the United States to outlaw the organization as a terrorist entity. Formation and structure In December 1997, Klas Lund and some other former members of the White Aryan Resistance (Swedish: ''Vitt Ariskt Motstånd'', also kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Direct Democrats (Sweden)
The Direct Democrats ( sv, Direktdemokraterna, DD) is a Swedish non-affiliated neutral political party, based on the principles of liquid democracy, a form of direct democracy. The Direct Democrats believe that the electorate should be able to directly influence their DD representatives by voting on political issues and policy proposals through the Internet. The party received 0.08% of the vote in the 2018 general election, making it the fourth largest party with no representation in the Riksdag. History The Direct Democrats party was approved by the Swedish Election Authority April 4, 2014. This new party was a merger of three direct democracy parties; Demoex Demoex, an appellation short for ''democracy experiment'', is a local Swedish political party and an experiment with direct democracy in Vallentuna, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. It uses the Internet to make it possible for any member to partic ..., Aktiv Demokrati, and Äkta Demokrati. DD's short-term goal was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Climate Alliance (Sweden)
The Climate Alliance ( sv, Klimatalliansen) is a Swedish political party with a focus on climate issues that describes itself as a non-ideological, party- and bloc-crossing influence organization, neither of the right nor left. The party's electoral platform has been described by classical liberal business think tank Timbro and newspaper '' Norran'' editorial board as left-wing. The Climate Alliance was started in autumn 2021 by people who have long been active in the social debate within various parties or outside party politics, such as Gudrun Schyman, Anders Wijkman, Kristina Persson and K. G. Hammar. The party decided in February 2022 to stand in the parliamentary election, further, on 17 March 2022, the Climate Alliance registered as a party with the electoral authority. The party's parliamentary list is topped by Gudrun Schyman and K. G. Hammar. In connection with the party announcing that they are standing in the parliamentary elections, Wijkman announced that he will not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unity (Swedish Political Party)
Unity ( sv, Enhet) is a small political party in Sweden. The party was founded on 6 April 1990 on the initiative of Ulf Wåhlström. It started with some influences from New Age and spirituality, but is nowadays a political party mostly focused on the environment, an unconditional income floor with a basic income and alternative medicine. The party has taken part in every national election in Sweden since 1991, mostly with limited success. The election 2014 was the best so far, with 0.1 percent of the total votes. In the Swedish national election 2018 the party backed a bit, to about 0.06 percent. History Starting as a smaller movement in April 1990, on the initiative of Ulf Wåhlström, Enhet then turned into a political party shortly after. In the 2006 parliamentary elections the party got 2,648 votes (0.05%), up from 603 votes (.01%) in the 2002 elections. However, in the 2010 Swedish general election the party only received 463 votes (.01%) this was down 2,616 votes or 0.0 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminist Initiative (Sweden)
Feminist Initiative ( sv, Feministiskt initiativ; abbreviated FI, Fi, or F!) is a feminist political party in Sweden. The party was formed in 2005 from a pressure group of the same name, and has since taken part in every election to the Riksdag and the European Parliament. The party won its first elected representative in 2014, with Soraya Post taking one seat in the European Parliament. Fi received 3.1% of the vote in the 2014 general election, the best result in its history, and won seats in thirteen municipalities in the 2014 municipal elections – including in Sweden's largest cities of Gothenburg and Stockholm, where it became part of governing " red-green-pink" coalitions. Support for Feminist Initiative dwindled, however, and the party only managed to obtain 0.4% of the vote in the 2018 general election, making it the largest political party without representation in the Riksdag. The party lost four seats in the municipal elections, and did not gain any county counci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirate Party (Sweden)
The Pirate Party ( sv, Piratpartiet) is a political party in Sweden founded in 2006. Its sudden popularity has given rise to parties with the same name and similar goals in Europe and worldwide, forming the International Pirate Party movement. The Pirate Party was initially formed to reform laws regarding copyright and patents. The party agenda includes support for strengthening the individual's right to privacy, both on the Internet and in everyday life, and the transparency of state administration. The Pirate Party has intentionally chosen to be bloc independent of the traditional left-right scale to pursue their political agenda with all mainstream parties. The party originally stayed neutral on other matters, but started broadening into other political areas in 2012. The Pirate Party participated in the 2006 Riksdag elections and gained 0.63% of the votes, making them the third largest party outside parliament. In terms of membership, it passed the Green Party in Decemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citizens' Coalition
Citizens' Coalition (, MED), officially known as Bourgeois Future (, BF) until 2017, is a right-wing political party in Sweden that was founded in 2014. The party considers itself liberal-conservative and green conservative, while observers described it as a right-wing populist party critical of immigration and conservative. Citizens' Coalition received 0,18 % of the vote in the 2022 Swedish general election, making it the third largest party with no seats in the Riksdag, behind the Nuance Party and Alternative for Sweden. The party received 0.15% of the votes in the EU parliament election 2019. As of the 2018 Swedish municipal elections, the party holds four seats in municipal assemblies; two in Laholm and one each in Höör, and Torsås. History The party was founded in 2014, initially as ''Borgerlig Framtid'' (Bourgeois Future) by the cook and nutrition consultant Patrik Evaeus, accountant Tomas Evaeus and journalist Anders Königsson. The party name was later change ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Rural Party (Sweden)
The Independent Rural Party () is a Swedish agrarian and Eurosceptic political party founded in 2010 which focuses on politics for rural areas. Local election results and representation Since 2018, the party is represented in twelve municipalities. The party has also taken part in the general elections A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ... in 2010, 2014 and 2018, but with limited results. The party received 0,06% of the vote in the 2014 general election, and 0,08% in the 2018 general election. At its party congress on 16 April 2019, Stefan Torssell was appointed as party leader. The party holds a total of 25 seats in the following municipalities: Results in national elections European Parliament election, 2019 LpO contested the 2019 election to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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