The Stockholm municipal election of 1994 was held on 18 September 1994, concurrently with the
1994 Swedish general election
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. Using a
party-list proportional representation system to allocate the 101 seats of the
Stockholm
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city council (''Stockholms kommunfullmäktige'') amongst the various
Swedish political parties
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. Voter turnout was 81.2%.
Two parties disappeared from the city council as a result this election. The
Christian Democratic Social Party, after winning seats on the city council for the first time in the
previous election in 1991, lost all their seats, though they would regain a
mandate
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in 1998 and retain it in each subsequent election (as of the
2006 elections
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).
The
right-wing
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New Democracy party lost all six of their previously held seats as a result of this election, though they managed to hold on to a mandate to the national
Swedish Riksdag as part of the concurrent parliamentary election. The party would never regain seats on the Stockholm City Council, and was declared bankrupt in 2000.
Results
See also
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Elections in Sweden
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City of Stockholm
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Notes
: No separate election data available for New Democracy or the Stockholm Party.
References
*Statistics Sweden, "Kommunfullmäktigval – valresultat" (Swedish
*Statistics Sweden, "Kommunfullmäktigval – erhållna mandat efter kommun och parti. Valår 1973–2006" (Swedish
Municipal elections in Stockholm
1994 elections in Sweden
1990s in Stockholm
September 1994 events in Europe
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