Editing Elections in Sweden (section)

===Party organization===
While parties have been very careful to maintain their original [[Political party#Types|mass party]] image, party organizations have become increasing professionalized and dependent on the state, and less connected with their [[grass-roots]] members and [[civil society]].<ref name=oxford>{{cite book|title=The Oxford Handbook of Swedish Politics|editor-first=Jon|editor-last=Pierre|year=2016|isbn=9780199665679|lccn=2015958065|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|chapter=The Party Organizations|first1=Gissur|last1=Elingsson|first2=Ann-Kristen|last2=Kölln|first3=Patrik|last3=Öhberg|pages=169–187|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8BskCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA169}}</ref><ref name=colossus>{{cite book|title=How Parties Organize: Change and Adaptation in Party Organizations in Western Democracies|editor1-first=Richard|editor1-last=Katz|editor2-first=Peter|editor2-last=Mair|year=1994|isbn=0803979614|lccn=94068658|publisher=[[SAGE Publications]]|chapter=Party Organizations in Sweden: Colossus with Feet of Clay or Flexible Pillars of Government?|first1=Jon|last1=Pierre|first2=Anders|last2=Widfeldt|pages=332–356|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Lq20h5xJrUC&pg=PA332}}</ref> Party membership has declined to 210,067 members in 2010 across all parties (3.67% of the electorate), from 1,124,917 members in 1960 (22.62% of the electorate).<ref name=oxford/> Political parties can be registered with the support of 1500 electors for Riksdag elections, 1500 electors for EU elections, 100 electors for county council elections, and/or 50 electors for municipal elections.<ref>Electoral law, {{SFS|2005|837|k=2|p=3}}</ref>