The electoral system in
Sweden
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is
proportional. Of the 349 seats in the national diet, the unicameral
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 ...
, 310 are fixed constituency seats ( sv, valkretsmandat) allocated to constituencies in relation to the number of people entitled to vote in each constituency (). The remaining 39
leveling seat
Leveling seats ( da, tillægsmandat, sv, utjämningsmandat, no, utjevningsmandater, is, jöfnunarsæti, german: Ausgleichsmandat), commonly known also as adjustment seats, are an election mechanism employed for many years by all Nordic countrie ...
s () are used to correct the deviations from proportional national distribution that may arise when allocating the fixed constituency seats. There is a constraint in the system that means that only a party that has received at least four per cent of the votes in the whole country participates in the distribution of seats. However, a party that has received at least twelve per cent of the votes in a constituency participates in the distribution of the fixed constituency seats in that constituency.
[For the general election of 2010, See e.g.]
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Örnsköldsviks Allehanda, March 20, 2009.
Apportionment of fixed constituency seats
Notes
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Numbering in politics