Editing Elections in Sweden (section)

===Seat allocation===
Seats in the various legislative bodies are allocated amongst the [[List of political parties in Sweden|Swedish political parties]] proportionally using a [[Sainte-Laguë method#Modified Sainte-Lagu.C3.AB method|modified form of the Sainte-Laguë method]]. This modification creates a systematic preference in the mathematics behind seat distribution, favoring larger and medium-sized parties over smaller parties. It reduces the slight bias towards larger parties in the d'Hondt formula. At the core of it, the system remains intensely proportional, and thus a party which wins approximately 25% of the vote should win approximately 25% of the seats. An example of the close correlation between seats and votes can be seen below in the results of the [[2002 Stockholm municipal election]].

In Riksdag elections, 310 of the members are elected using a [[party-list proportional representation]] system within each of Sweden's 29 electoral constituencies. The remaining 39 seats in the Riksdag are "[[Leveling seat|adjustment seat]]s", distributed amongst the parties in numbers that will ensure that the party distribution in the Riksdag matches the distribution of the votes nationally as closely as possible.{{sfn|Ewing|2010|p=151}} County elections use the same system. All seats on municipal assemblies are permanent; there are no adjustment seats. This can cause the distribution of seats in the municipal assemblies to differ somewhat from the actual distribution of votes in the election.{{sfn|Elections|p=13}} The [[European Parliament]] has 751 permanent seats, 20 of which were [[Apportionment in the European Parliament|allocated]] to Sweden for the [[2019 European Parliament election in Sweden|2019 election]]. After [[Brexit]], an additional seat was allocated for Sweden.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.val.se/servicelankar/press/nyheter/nyheter/2019-05-31-european-parliamentary-election-results.html|title=European Parliamentary election results|date=2019-05-31|publisher=[[Election Authority (Sweden)|Valmyndigheten]]}}</ref>

In order to restrict the number of parties which win seats in the Riksdag, a threshold has been put in place. In order to win seats in the Riksdag, a party must win at least four percent of the vote nationally, or twelve percent of the vote in any electoral constituency.{{sfn|Elections|p=13}} County elections use a lower threshold of three percent. For municipal elections, since the elections of 2018 there has been a minimum threshold of two percent in municipalities with only one constituency, and three percent in those with more than one.{{sfn|Statistics|p=14}}

Comparison of vote share vs. share of allocated seats after [[2018 Swedish municipal elections|2018 municipal elections]]:<ref>{{cite web| url=https://data.val.se/val/val2018/slutresultat/K/rike/valda.html| title=Val till kommunfullmäktige – Valda 2018| publisher=[[Election Authority (Sweden)|Valmyndigheten]]| access-date=2019-07-10| language=sv| archive-date=30 September 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930231342/https://data.val.se/val/val2018/slutresultat/K/rike/valda.html| url-status=dead}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! colspan=2 | Party
! Votes (%)
! Seats (%)
|-
|bgcolor={{party color|Swedish Social Democratic Party}}|
| [[Swedish Social Democratic Party|Social Democratic Party]]
|27.6
|29.5
|-
|bgcolor={{party color|Moderate Party}} |
|[[Moderate Party]]
|20.1
|18.9
|-
|bgcolor={{party color|Sweden Democrats}} |
| [[Sweden Democrats]]
|12.7
|14.2
|-
|bgcolor={{party color|Centre Party (Sweden)}}|
|[[Centre Party (Sweden)|Centre Party]]
|9.7
|12.6
|-
|bgcolor={{party color|Left Party (Sweden)}}|
|[[Left Party (Sweden)|Left Party]]
|7.7
|6.4
|-
|bgcolor={{party color|Liberals (Sweden)}}|
|[[Liberals (Sweden)|Liberals]]
|6.8
|5.4
|-
|bgcolor={{party color|Christian Democrats (Sweden)}} |
| [[Christian Democrats (Sweden)|Christian Democrats]]
|5.2
|5.3
|-
|bgcolor={{party color|Green Party (Sweden)}} |
| [[Green Party (Sweden)|Green Party]] 
|4.6
|3.1
|}