2014 European Parliament election in Sweden

European Parliament elections in Sweden took place on 25 May 2014. At the election, twenty Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were from the Swedish constituency. In the election, voters choose members of registered Swedish parties whose elected members then form political groups in the European Parliament, together with members of parties from other Member States with the same political affiliation.

2014 European Parliament election in Sweden

25 May 2014
All 20 Swedish seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	51.07% ( 5.54 pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Marita Ulvskog Isabella Lövin Gunnar Hökmark Party Social Democrats Green Moderate Alliance S&D Greens/EFA EPP Last election 6 seats, 24.4% 2 seats, 11.0% 4 seats, 18.8% Seats won 5 4 3 Seat change 1 2 1 Popular vote 899,074 572,591 507,488 Percentage 24.2% 15.4% 13.6% Swing 0.2% 4.4% 5.2%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Marit Paulsen Kristina Winberg Kent Johansson Party Liberals Sweden Democrats Centre Alliance ALDE EFDD ALDE Last election 3 seats, 13.6% 0 seats, 3.3% 1 seat, 5.5% Seats won 2 2 1 Seat change 1 2 0 Popular vote 368,514 359,248 241,101 Percentage 9.9% 9.7% 6.5% Swing 3.7% 6.4% 1.0%   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Malin Björk Lars Adaktusson Soraya Post Party Left Christian Democrats Feminist Initiative Alliance GUE/NGL EPP S&D Last election 1 seat, 5.7% 1 seat, 4.7% 0 seats, 2.2% Seats won 1 1 1 Seat change 0 0 1 Popular vote 234,272 220,574 204,005 Percentage 6.3% 5.9% 5.5% Swing 0.6% 1.2% 3.3%

As a result of the election, the Pirate Party lost their seats and Feminist Initiative won a seat for the first time.

Previous result

Distribution of Sweden's mandate during the previous election, turnout was 45.53% in 2009

Swedish party		Seats/20	European party		Seats/754
	Social Democratic Party	6		Party of European Socialists	195
	Moderate Party	4		European People's Party	275
	Christian Democrats	1
	Liberal People's Party	3		Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe	75
	Centre Party	1
	Green Party	2		European Green Party	45
	Pirate Party	2		European Pirate Party	2
	Left Party	1		Nordic Green Left Alliance	2

Results

Main article: Results of the 2014 European Parliament election in Sweden

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Swedish Social Democratic Party	899,074	24.19	5	–1
	Green Party	572,591	15.41	4	+2
	Moderate Party	507,488	13.65	3	–1
	Liberals	368,514	9.91	2	–1
	Sweden Democrats	359,248	9.67	2	+2
	Centre Party	241,101	6.49	1	0
	Left Party	234,272	6.30	1	0
	Christian Democrats	220,574	5.93	1	0
	Feminist Initiative	204,005	5.49	1	+1
	Pirate Party	82,763	2.23	0	–2
	June List	11,629	0.31	0	0
	Animals' Party	8,773	0.24	0	New
	Classical Liberal Party	492	0.01	0	New
	European Workers Party	170	0.00	0	0
	Swedish Multi-Democrats	133	0.00	0	New
	Freedom and Justice Party	106	0.00	0	0
	Socialist Welfare Party	86	0.00	0	New
	True Democracy	72	0.00	0	New
	Swedish National Democratic Party	49	0.00	0	0
	666 for an EU Superstate	11	0.00	0	0
	Republican Right	9	0.00	0	0
	Parties not on the ballot	5,618	0.15	0	–
Total		3,716,778	100.00	20	0
Valid votes		3,716,778	98.88
Invalid/blank votes		42,173	1.12
Total votes		3,758,951	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		7,359,962	51.07
Source: Val

Elected members

Moderate Party

• Anna Maria Corazza Bildt
• Gunnar Hökmark
• Christofer Fjellner

Centre Party

• Fredrick Federley

Liberal People's Party

• Marit Paulsen
• Cecilia Wikström

Christian Democrats

• Lars Adaktusson

Social Democrats

• Marita Ulvskog
• Olle Ludvigsson
• Jytte Guteland
• Jens Nilsson
• Anna Hedh

Left Party

• Malin Björk

Green Party

• Isabella Lövin
• Peter Eriksson
• Bodil Ceballos
• Max Andersson

Sweden Democrats

• Kristina Winberg
• Peter Lundgren

Feminist Initiative

• Soraya Post