Election - 19 September 2010
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt was re-elected on September 19, 2010. The Alliance for Sweden (a coalition of four center-right parties--the Moderate Party, the Liberal Party, the Christian Democrats, and the Center Party) won 173 of the 349 seats, securing Moderate Fredrik Reinfeldt the position of Prime Minister. The 2010 election results for Sweden's major parties were as follows: the Social Democratic Party (30.66%; 112 seats), the Moderate Party (30.06%; 107 seats), the Green Party (7.34%; 25 seats), the Liberal Party (7.06%; 24 seats), the Center Party (6.56%; 23 seats), the Sweden Democrats (5.70%; 20 seats), the Left Party (5.60%; 19 seats), and the Christian Democrats (6.60%; 19 seats).
With just 49.1 percent of the vote, however, Reinfeldt's coalition was short of a majority of seats in parliament, which would force him to lure away parties from the opposition bloc to form a stable government.
The Sweden Democrats advanced in voter surveys to nearly 10 percent from 5 percent at the last election in 2010. Before the 2013 riots, a poll by Novus showed around 20 percent of Swedes believed the Sweden Democrats had the best immigration policy.
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and his conservative Moderate Party were widely credited with doing a good job of shepherding Sweden through the global financial crisis that broke out towards the end of the last decade, but his critics pointed to a growing income gap between the country's rich and poor in the eight years since he took office.
The general election 2010 was characterised by increased election participation. Lomma was the municipality with the most voters for the elections to the Riksdag, county council and municipal council. Those least likely to vote were the inhabitants in Haparanda. For the first time ever, there were eight parties represented in the Riksdag.
Electoral participation in the Riksdag election 2010 was 84.6 percent. The corresponding percentages in the county councils and municipal councils were 81.0 and 81.6 percent respectively. This means that electoral participation has increased in two consecutive elections. Nearly 2.4 million people, or 39 percent of the voters voted prior to election day. The corresponding figure in 2006 was 32 percent. The percentage of blank votes also dropped in all elections in 2010.
Electoral participation in the Riksdag election increased in all municipalities compared to the 2006 election. The increase in electoral participation was largest in Övertorneå with 5.9 percentage points, from 74.9 to 80.8 percent. Övertorneå also accounted for the largest increase in election participation in the election to the municipal council by 5.8 percentage points. In the election for the municipal council, electoral participation dropped in two municipalities: Burlöv (1.5 percentage points) and Bengtsfors (0.2 percentage points). In other municipalities, the percentage of those who chose to vote for the municipal council increased.
Electoral participation, both to the Riksdag and the municipal council, was highest in Lomma municipality, where election participation was over 90 percent in both elections. This also implies that Lomma maintains its ranking from the 2006 elections as the municipality with the largest percentage of voters.
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