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Proportional representation to a 349-seat unicameral Riksdag, elected every four years on a fixed date — the second Sunday in September — at the same time as regional and municipal councils. Seats are allocated by the modified Sainte-Laguë method with a 4% national threshold.
Perfil revisado por última vez July 23, 2026
Sweden runs one of the most administratively conventional elections in Europe: all-paper ballots, hand counting, a fixed date nobody can move, and a permanent election authority. That leaves few of the technical attack surfaces that dominate election-integrity argument elsewhere, and shifts the questions worth asking to the information environment around the campaign — and to one long-criticised feature of the polling station itself, where ballots are displayed openly and a voter's choice can be observed as they take one.
Cómo funciona hoy la votación
- Edad para votar
- 18 y más
- Registro de votantes
- Automático
- Identificación
- Cualquier documento de identidad
- Voto obligatorio
- No
- Voto por correo
- Restringido
- Voto anticipado
- Disponible para todos
- Voto en línea
- No disponible
- Voto desde el extranjero
- Disponible para todos
The electoral roll is drawn automatically from the population register and a voting card is posted to every elector. Voters identify themselves with a document or are vouched for by a known person. Advance voting runs for about three weeks before polling day at libraries and other public premises; postal voting is for electors abroad.
Cómo cambió el sufragio
Cada entrada registra un cambio en quién podía votar, o cómo podía hacerlo: ampliaciones, restricciones y reformas de procedimiento por igual.
- 1862Ampliación
Municipal franchise was written in gender-neutral terms, so women who owned property and paid tax above a threshold could vote locally — a narrow opening, limited by wealth rather than sex.
- 1909Ampliación
Universal male suffrage for the Second Chamber, ending the graduated property vote for men.
- 1919Ampliación
Parliament adopted universal and equal suffrage for women and men in national elections.
- 1921Ampliación
The first general election in which women voted, at 23 and over. Five women entered the Riksdag.
- 1975Ampliación
Voting age lowered to 18, and resident foreign nationals gained the vote in municipal and regional — though not national — elections.
Salvaguardias en el escrutinio
- Tipo de papeleta
- Papeletas de papel
- Auditoría postelectoral
- Solo impugnación judicial
- Administración electoral
- Comisión independiente
- Observadores nacionales
- Sí
- Observadores internacionales
- Sí
Paper ballots counted by hand at the polling station on election night, recounted in full by the county administrative boards in the days after, which is the real count of record. The Election Authority is permanent; appeals go to the Election Review Board. There is no electronic voting and no internet voting.
Conviene saber
- Ballot papers are stacked openly on a table in the polling station, one pile per party, so which pile a voter takes can be observed. The arrangement has been criticised by OSCE/ODIHR for years as falling short of ballot secrecy; screened stands are now required but the underlying design persists.
- The election date is fixed in law rather than chosen by the government, so no prime minister can time a vote to advantage — an early election, which is rare, does not reset the four-year cycle.
Elecciones en la base de datos
- 2026Sweden 2026 Riksdag ElectionElection Watch
Fuentes
- The development of democracy in Sweden— Sveriges riksdag
- 2026 elections — the Riksdag and regional and municipal councils— Valmyndigheten (Swedish Election Authority)
- How Swedish women won the right to vote— The Local Sweden