Editing Elections in Sweden (section)

===Constituencies===
{{See also|National apportionment of MP seats in the Riksdag}}
In Riksdag elections, constituencies are usually coterminous with one of the [[Counties of Sweden|Swedish counties]], though the Counties of [[Stockholm County|Stockholm]], [[Skåne County|Skåne]] (containing [[Malmö]]), and [[Västra Götaland County|Västra Götaland]] (containing [[Gothenburg]]) are divided into smaller electoral constituencies due to their larger populations. The number of available seats in each constituency is based on its number of voters (vis-à-vis the number of voters nationwide), and parties are apportioned seats in each constituency based on their votes in that constituency.{{sfn|Ewing|2010|p=151}}

In County Council elections, individual municipalities—or alternatively groups of municipalities—are used as electoral constituencies. The number of seats on the county council allocated to each constituency, and the borders of these constituencies, is entirely at the discretion of each county council itself. As mandated by Swedish law, nine out of ten seats on each county council are permanent seats from a particular constituency; the remaining seats are [[at-large]] adjustment seats, used to ensure county-wide proportionality with the vote, just as with general elections.{{sfn|Elections|p=7}}

For European parliamentary elections, all of Sweden consists of one electoral district.