2002_Stockholm_municipal_election Knowpia

The 2002 Stockholm municipal election was held on Sunday, 15 September 2002. The election used a party-list proportional representation system to allocate the 101-seats of the Stockholm City Council (Stockholms stadsfullmäktige) to the various Swedish political parties. This election was held concurrently with the 2002 Swedish parliamentary election. Voter turnout was 77.7%.

This election marks the first time since the election of 1976 that the Stockholm Party failed to win any seats, ending their 23-year streak of representation on the City Council.

Results edit

Party		Votes			Seats
Party		#	%	+ –	#	+ –
	Social Democrats Socialdemokraterna (s)	149,871	32.1%	+6.5%	35	+6
	Moderate Party Moderaterna (m)	121,405	26.0%	–6.9%	28	–8
	Liberal People's Party Folkpartiet liberalerna (fp)	73,736	15.8%	+8.0%	17	+8
	Left Party Vänsterpartiet (v)	52,325	11.2%	–1.1%	11	–2
	Green Party Miljöpartiet (mp)	24,965	5.3%	–0.6%	6	±0
	Christian Democrats Kristdemokratiska samlingspartiet (kd)	20,746	4.4%	–1.9%	5	–1
	Stockholm Party Stockholmspartiet (sp)	9,137	2.0%	–2.4%	0	–3
	Centre Party Centerpartiet (c)	5,939	1.3%	–0.8%	0	±0
Other parties		8,772	1.9%	–0.8%	0	±0

Total		466,896	100%	—	101	±0
Invalid ballots		8,469

References edit

Statistics Sweden, "Kommunfullmäktigval – valresultat" (Swedish) [1]^{[permanent dead link]}
Statistics Sweden, "Kommunfullmäktigval – erhållna mandat efter kommun och parti. Valår 1973–2006" (Swedish) [2]^{[permanent dead link]}
Swedish Election Authority (Valmyndigheten) "Kommunfullmäktigval i Stockholm" [3]

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