Editing Elections in Sweden (section)

===Voter eligibility===
[[File:Polling-station-Goteborg-1940.jpg|thumb|Polling station in [[Gothenburg]], [[1940 Swedish general election|1940 general election]]]]To vote in a Swedish ''general election'', one must be:<ref name="voter">{{Official website|https://www.val.se/servicelankar/other-languages/english-engelska.html|name=How to vote}}</ref>
* a Swedish citizen,
* at least 18 years of age on election day,
* and have at some point been a registered resident of Sweden (thus excluding foreign-born Swedes who have never lived in Sweden)

To vote in Swedish ''local elections'' (for the county councils and municipal assemblies), one must:<ref name="voter" />
* be a registered resident of the county or municipality in question and be at least 18 years of age on election day
* fall into one of the following groups:
# Swedish citizens
# Citizens of [[Iceland]], [[Norway]], or any country in the [[European Union]]
# Citizens of any other country who have permanent residency in Sweden and have lived in Sweden for three consecutive years

In order to vote in elections to the European Parliament, one must be at least 18 years old, and fall into one of the following groups:<ref name="voter" />

# Swedish citizens who are or have been residents of Sweden
# Citizens of any other country in the [[European Union]] who are currently residents of Sweden; such citizens, by choosing to vote in European Parliamentary elections in Sweden, become ineligible to vote in European Parliamentary elections in any other EU member state

In general, any person who is eligible to vote is also eligible to stand for election.

Sweden does not disenfranchise prisoners or those with criminal convictions.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-20447504|title=Prisoner votes by European country|date=22 November 2019|publisher=[[BBC News]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621184820/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-20447504|archive-date=21 June 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Expat Swedish citizens may however be removed from the polling register if they do not renew their registration every 10 years.