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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 2010 Swedish general election
| country = Sweden
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 2006 Swedish general election
| previous_year = 2006
| next_election = 2014 Swedish general election
| next_year = 2014
| seats_for_election = All 349 seats to the [[Riksdag]] <br /> 175 seats are needed for a majority
| election_date = 19 September 2010
| image1 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Mona Salhin 2009-06-06.jpg|bSize = 130|cWidth = 120|cHeight = 160|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}
| leader1 = [[Mona Sahlin]]
| leader_since1 = 17 March 2007
| party1 = Swedish Social Democratic Party
| alliance1 = Red-Greens (Sweden)
| last_election1 = 130
| seats1 = 112
| seat_change1 = {{decrease}}18
| popular_vote1 = 1,827,497
| percentage1 = 30.7%
| swing1 = {{decrease}}4.3%
| image2 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Fredrik Reinfeldt (3999756697) (cropped).jpg|bSize = 120|cWidth = 120|cHeight = 160|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}
| leader2 = [[Fredrik Reinfeldt]]
| leader_since2 = 25 October 2003
| party2 = Moderate Party
| alliance2 = The Alliance (Sweden)
| last_election2 = 97
| seats2 = 107
| seat_change2 = {{increase}}10
| popular_vote2 = 1,791,766
| percentage2 = 30.1%
| swing2 = {{increase}}3.9%
| image3 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Peter Eriksson and Maria Wetterstrand.jpg|bSize = 120|cWidth = 120|cHeight = 160|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}
| leader3 = [[Peter Eriksson (politician)|Peter Eriksson]]<br /> [[Maria Wetterstrand]]
| leader_since3 = 12 May 2002
| party3 = Green Party (Sweden)
| alliance3 = Red-Greens (Sweden)
| last_election3 = 19
| seats3 = 25
|
| popular_vote3 = 437,435
| percentage3 = 7.3%
| swing3 = {{increase}}2.1%
| image4 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Allisansen Pressträff på Kofi (4478284517) (cropped).jpg|bSize = 120|cWidth = 120|cHeight = 160|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}
| leader4 = [[Jan Björklund]]
| leader_since4 = 7 September 2007
| party4 = Liberal People's Party (Sweden)
| alliance4 = The Alliance (Sweden)
| last_election4 = 28
| seats4 = 24
| seat_change4 = {{decrease}}4
| popular_vote4 = 420,524
| percentage4 = 7.1%
| swing4 = {{decrease}}0.4%
| image5 = {{CSS image crop|Image =BDF Summit 2010.06.02 (9) (4712312068) (cropped).jpg|bSize = 120|cWidth = 120|cHeight = 160|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}
| leader5 = [[Maud Olofsson]]
| leader_since5 = 19 March 2001
| party5 = Centre Party (Sweden)
| alliance5 = The Alliance (Sweden)
| last_election5 = 29
| seats5 = 23
| seat_change5 = {{decrease}}6
| popular_vote5 = 390,804
| percentage5 = 6.6%
| swing5 = {{decrease}}1.3%
| image6 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Jimme Åkesson Almedalsveckan 2014 001 (cropped).jpg|bSize = 130|cWidth = 120|cHeight = 160|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}
| leader6 = [[Jimmie Åkesson]]
| leader_since6 = 7 May 2005
| party6 = Sweden Democrats
| alliance6 =
| last_election6 = 0
| seats6 = 20
| seat_change6 = {{increase}}20
| popular_vote6 = 339,610
| percentage6 = 5.7%
| swing6 = {{increase}}3.7%
| image7 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Lars Ohly (V)-riksdagasman (cropped).JPG|bSize = 130|cWidth = 120|cHeight = 160|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}
| leader7 = [[Lars Ohly]]
| leader_since7 = 20 February 2004
| party7 = Left Party (Sweden)
| alliance7 = Red-Greens (Sweden)
| last_election7 = 22
| seats7 = 19
| seat_change7 = {{decrease}}3
| popular_vote7 = 334,053
| percentage7 = 5.6%
|
| image8 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Allisansen Pressträff på Kofi (4478910114) (cropped).jpg|bSize = 130|cWidth = 120|cHeight = 160|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}
| leader8 = [[Göran Hägglund]]
| leader_since8 = 3 April 2004
| party8 = Christian Democrats (Sweden)
| alliance8 = The Alliance (Sweden)
| last_election8 = 24
|
| seat_change8 = {{decrease}}5
| popular_vote8 = 333,696
| percentage8 = 5.6%
| swing8 = {{decrease}}1.0%
| map = {{Switcher
| [[File:Swedish General Election 2010.png|300px]]
| Largest party within each constituency and municipality
| [[File:Riksdagsvalet 2010.svg|300px]]
| Distribution of constituency and levelling seats and largest political bloc within each constituency}}
Red-Social Democratic, Blue-Moderate
<!--PM before/after-->| title = [[Prime Minister of Sweden|Prime Minister]]
| posttitle = Elected [[Prime Minister of Sweden|Prime Minister]]
| before_election = [[Fredrik Reinfeldt]]
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| after_election = [[Fredrik Reinfeldt]]
| after_party = Moderate Party
| elected_members = List of members of the Riksdag, 2010–14
| outgoing_members = List of members of the Riksdag, 2006–10
}}
General elections were held in [[Sweden]] on 19 September 2010 to elect the 349 members of the [[Riksdag]]. The main contenders of the election were the [[Cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt|governing]] centre-right coalition the [[The Alliance (Sweden)|Alliance]], consisting of the [[Moderate Party]], the [[Centre Party (Sweden)|Centre Party]], the [[Liberal People's Party (Sweden)|Liberal People's Party]] and the [[Christian Democrats (Sweden)|Christian Democrats]]; and the opposition centre-left coalition the [[Red-Greens (Sweden)|Red-Greens]], consisting of the [[Swedish Social Democratic Party|Social Democrats]], the [[Left Party (Sweden)|Left Party]] and the [[Green Party (Sweden)|Green Party]].
The Alliance received 49.27 percent of the votes (an increase by 1.03 [[Percentage point|pp]] from the [[2006 Swedish general election|previous election]]) and 173 seats in the parliament (a decrease by 5 seats and 2 short of an overall majority), while the Red-Greens received 43.60 percent of the vote (a decrease by 2.48 pp) and 156 seats (a decrease by 15 seats).<ref name="electionresults"/> The election also saw the nationalist [[Sweden Democrats]] entering parliament for the first time, as the sixth largest and only non-aligned of the eight parties elected to the parliament, by receiving 5.70 percent of the votes (an increase by 2.77 pp) and 20 seats.<ref name="electionresults"/> Both in terms of percentage share; 30.06%, and the actual vote; 1,791,766, the Moderate Party had its strongest election of the unicameral parliamentary era, narrowly missing out on beating the Social Democrats to become the largest party.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.val.se/val/val2010/slutresultat/R/rike/index.html|title=Röster - Val 2010|publisher=[[Valmyndigheten]]|date=23 September 2010|access-date=18 November 2019|archive-date=4 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904062146/https://data.val.se/val/val2010/slutresultat/R/rike/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Alliance dominated the Stockholm capital region of the [[Stockholm Municipality|municipality]] and [[Stockholm County|county]] and made further gains in South Sweden including narrowly flipping [[Malmö Municipality|Malmö]] blue as well as winning pluralities in traditionally red towns such as [[Kalmar Municipality|Kalmar]], [[Landskrona Municipality|Landskrona]] and [[Trelleborg Municipality|Trelleborg]].<ref name="electionresults" />
The Alliance lost its [[absolute majority]] in the parliament but continued to govern as a [[minority government]]. The new parliament held its opening session on 5 October, with [[Prime Minister of Sweden|Prime Minister]] [[Fredrik Reinfeldt]] presenting the annual [[government policy statement]], along with changes to his cabinet.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thelocal.se/29438/20101005/ |title=Reinfeldt unveils reshuffled cabinet |publisher=[[The Local]] |date=5 October 2010 |access-date=5 October 2010}}</ref>
This was the first time in almost a century that a Swedish centre-right government that had served a full term was reelected.<ref name=thelocal>{{Cite news|title=Sweden braces for rollercoaster election |newspaper=[[The Local]] |date=19 September 2010 |url=http://www.thelocal.se/29104/20100919/ |access-date=19 September 2010}}</ref>
== Campaign ==
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==Polling==
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After the election in September 2006, the Alliance slipped well behind the opposition in the polls. A [[Sifo]] poll conducted in February 2008 showed the opposition leading the Alliance by 19.4%. However, this lead steadily eroded during the second half of the Alliance's term, despite the opposition's uniting in the [[Red-Greens (Sweden)|Red-Green co-operation]] in December 2008.
[[File:Valaaffischer Stockholm 2010.jpg|thumb|200px|Campaign posters in Stockholm]]
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The [[Sweden Democrats]] were expected
[[File:Sweden2010RiksdagPolls-SmallParties.svg|450px|none|thumb|'''Poll performance 2006-2010: ''Small parties'''''<br/>{{color|#00FF00|█}} Green Party {{color|#0044CC|█}} Liberal People's Party {{color|#009933|▄}} Centre Party {{color|#b00000|█}} Left Party {{color|#2D338E|▄}} Christian Democrats {{color|#DDDD00|█}} Sweden Democrats {{color|gray|█}} Other]]
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== Controversy about Sweden Democrats ==
[[File:SVT valdebatt 2010.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The final election debate on [[Sveriges Television|SVT]]. Party leaders Hägglund (KD), Ohly (V), Björklund (FP), Sahlin (S), Reinfeldt (M), Wetterstrand (MP), and Olofsson (C).]]
The Sweden Democrats generated controversy before the election.<ref name=aljazeera /> Both the Alliance and the Red-Greens pledged not to seek support from the SD,<ref name="aljaz"/> with Reinfeldt ruling out forming a government in cooperation with the [[Sweden Democrats]].<ref name="the local">{{Cite web|url=http://www.thelocal.se/29156/20100921/ |title=Economy trumps welfare worries in tight Swedish election - The Local |publisher=Thelocal.se |date=22 September 2010 |
A [[TV4 Group|privately owned television network]], [[TV4 (Sweden)|TV4]], refused to air a SD campaign video, which was then uploaded to [[YouTube]] and viewed more than one million times. The SD video portrayed a track-meet, in which the race is for pension funds. In the video, a Swedish pensioner is outrun by [[burqa|burka]]-clad women with [[Baby transport|prams]].<ref name=aljazeera>{{Cite news|title=Far-right tests Swedish tolerance |first=Cajsa |last=Wikstrom |newspaper=[[Al Jazeera English]] |date=19 September 2010 |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/2010/09/201091691137186652.html |
Several politicians in Denmark, initially from the [[Danish People's Party]] and later from the governing [[Venstre (Denmark)|Venstre]] and the [[Conservative People's Party (Denmark)|Conservative People's Party]], reacted to TV4's refusal to air the video by calling for international election observers to be sent to Sweden.<ref name=aft>{{cite news|url=http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article3795398.ece|work=[[Aftenposten]]|title=Skandinavisk "krig" før valget|first=Jon Robin|last=Halle|date=3 September 2010|
=== Violence ===
On 13 September in [[Gothenburg]], about 500 counter-demonstrators prevented the Sweden Democrats from making a planned election rally.<ref name=svt100913b>{{cite journal|title=Demonstrators stopped the SD meeting |journal=Profile |date=13 September 2010 |url=http://svt.se/2.22620/1.2144519/demonstranter_stoppade_sd-mote |
After these cancelled election rallies, the [[National Police Commissioner (Sweden)|National Police Commissioner]] Bengt Svenson severely criticized the county police for failing to safeguard the Sweden Democrats: "If it is not possible to protect them [in those locales], the police have failed in its planning and execution of its mission. [ . . . ] It is a serious problem when such meetings cannot be held, because it is our absolute duty to ensure that the constitutionally guaranteed rights be maintained and that all meetings can be held".<ref name=svt100916>{{cite journal|title=National Police Commissioner criticizes police Värmland |journal=Sveriges Television |date=16 September 2010 |url=http://svt.se/2.33874/1.2149654/rikspolischefen_kritiserar_varmlandspolisen |
=== Consequences ===
These attempts to limit the SD message were described by [[Al Jazeera Media Network|Al Jazeera]] as counterproductive, in that they enabled the SD to portray itself as a victim of censorship.<ref name=aljazeera />
Similarly, Hanne Kjöller of ''[[Dagens Nyheter]]'' hypothesised that the attacks strengthened the Sweden Democrats rather than hurting the party's support base. "Jimmie Åkesson becomes a poor underdog and the picture of a party that is holding some dangerous but important truth is enhanced. The Sweden Democrats should send flowers to the left-wing extremists, thanking them for the publicity."<ref>[http://www.dn.se/ledare/signerat/sverigedemokraterna-blommogram-till-extremvanstern-1.1172091 "Sverigedemokraterna: Blommogram till extremvänstern"] ''Dagens Nyheter'' 18 September 2010</ref>
==Results==
[[File:SwedishGeneralElection2010-map.svg|thumb|upright|Coalition dominance by municipality <small>(colors aggravated, not [[Linear function (calculus)|linearly]] proportional)</small>.
{{unbulleted list
|{{legend2|#fb0005|Red‑Greens}}
|{{legend2|#800080|Equal}}
|{{legend2|#0500fb|The Alliance}}
}}]]
[[File:SwedishGeneralElection2010-map-SwedenDemocrats.svg|thumb|upright|Relative support of the Sweden Democrats by municipality.
{{unbulleted list
|{{legend2|#ffff40|Sweden Democrats}} (max. 15.84% in [[Sjöbo]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.val.se/val/val2010/slutresultat/R/kommun/12/65/index.html |title=Val till riksdagen-Röster- Sjöbo |publisher=Val.se |date=22 September 2010|access-date=5 October 2010}}</ref>
}}]]
{{main|Results of the 2010 Swedish general election}}
There were 5,960,408 valid ballots cast for a turnout of 84.63%.<ref name=val>{{cite web|url=https://data.val.se/val/val2010/slutresultat/R/rike/index.html|title=Röster - Val 2010|publisher=[[Valmyndigheten]]|language=sv|date=23 September 2010|access-date=20 November 2019|archive-date=4 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904062146/https://data.val.se/val/val2010/slutresultat/R/rike/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
{{Election results
|image=[[File:Sweden_Riksdag_2010.svg]]
|party1=[[Swedish Social Democratic Party]]|votes1=1827497|seats1=112|sc1=–18
|party2=[[Moderate Party]]|votes2=1791766|seats2=107|sc2=+10
|party3=[[Green Party (Sweden)|Green Party]]|votes3=437435|seats3=25|sc3=+6
|party4=[[Liberals (Sweden)|Liberal People's Party]]|votes4=420524|seats4=24|sc4=–4
|party5=[[Centre Party (Sweden)|Centre Party]]|votes5=390804|seats5=23|sc5=–6
|party6=[[Sweden Democrats]]|votes6=339610|seats6=20|sc6=+20
|party7=[[Left Party (Sweden)|Left Party]]|votes7=334053|seats7=19|sc7=–3
|party8=[[Christian Democrats (Sweden)|Christian Democrats]]|votes8=333696|seats8=19|sc8=–5
|party9=[[Pirate Party (Sweden)|Pirate Party]]|votes9=38491|seats9=0|sc9=0
|party10=[[Feminist Initiative (Sweden)|Feminist Initiative]]|votes10=24139|seats10=0|sc10=0
|party11=[[Swedish Senior Citizen Interest Party]]|votes11=11078|seats11=0|sc11=0
|party12=[[Independent Rural Party (Sweden)|Rural Democrats]]|votes12=1565|seats12=0|sc12=New
|party13=[[Socialist Justice Party]]|votes13=1507|seats13=0|sc13=0
|party14=Norrländska Coalition|votes14=1456|seats14=0|sc14=New
|party15=[[National Democrats (Sweden)|National Democrats]]|votes15=1141|seats15=0|sc15=0
|party16=[[Classical Liberal Party (Sweden)|Classical Liberal Party]]|votes16=716|seats16=0|sc16=0
|party17=Freedom Party|votes17=688|seats17=0|sc17=New
|party18=[[Party of the Swedes]]|votes18=681|seats18=0|sc18=0
|party19=[[Unity (Swedish political party)|Unity]]|votes19=632|seats19=0|sc19=0
|party20=[[Communist Party of Sweden (1995)|Communist Party]]|votes20=375|seats20=0|sc20=0
|party21=Spirits Party|votes21=237|seats21=0|sc21=New
|party22=[[European Workers Party]]|votes22=187|seats22=0|sc22=0
|party23=[[Health Care Party]]|votes23=185|seats23=0|sc23=0
|party24=[[Alliance Party (Sweden)|Alliance Party]]|votes24=87|seats24=0|sc24=0
|party25=[[Direct Democrats (Sweden)|Direct Democrats]]|votes25=76|seats25=0|sc25=0
|party26=National Democratic Party|votes26=63|seats26=0|sc26=0
|party27=Population Party|votes27=35|seats27=0|sc27=New
|party28=[[Communist League (Sweden)|Communist League]]|votes28=26|seats28=0|sc28=0
|party29=Freedom and Justice Party |votes29=19|seats29=0|sc29=0
|party30=[[Scania Party]]|votes30=17|seats30=0|sc30=0
|party31=Republicans|votes31=14|seats31=0|sc31=0
|party32=Republican Party|votes32=10|seats32=0|sc32=New
|party33=Nordic Union|votes33=5|seats33=0|sc33=0
|party34=Alexander's Lista|votes34=4|seats34=0|sc34=New
|party35=Li Yu Chen Andersson Party|votes35=4|seats35=0|sc35=New
|party36=Rikshushållarna|votes36=3|seats36=0|sc36=0
|party37=Labour Market Party UPI|votes37=2|seats37=0|sc37=New
|party38=Parties not on the ballot|votes38=1580|seats38=0|sc38=–
|total_sc=0
|invalid=68274
|electorate=7123651
|source=[https://www.val.se/valresultat/riksdag-region-och-kommun/2010/valresultat.html Val]
}}
=== Seat distribution ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size: 0.9em;"
! rowspan="4" |Constituency
! rowspan="4" |Total<br>seats
! colspan="12" |Seats won
|-
! colspan="8" |By party
! rowspan="33" |
! colspan="3" |By coalition
|-
! class="unsortable" style="width:50px;" |[[Swedish Social Democratic Party|S]]
! class="unsortable" style="width:50px;" |[[Moderate Party|M]]
! class="unsortable" style="width:50px;" |[[Green Party (Sweden)|MP]]
! class="unsortable" style="width:50px;" |[[Liberals (Sweden)|FP]]
! class="unsortable" style="width:50px;" |[[Centre Party (Sweden)|C]]
! class="unsortable" style="width:50px;" |[[Sweden Democrats|SD]]
! class="unsortable" style="width:50px;" |[[Left Party (Sweden)|V]]
! class="unsortable" style="width:50px;" |[[Christian Democrats (Sweden)|KD]]
! class="unsortable" style="width:50px;" |[[Alliance (Sweden)|Alliance]]
! class="unsortable" style="width:50px;" |[[Red-Greens (Sweden)|Red-Greens]]
! class="unsortable" style="width:50px;" |{{Abbr|Others|SD}}
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Swedish Social Democratic Party}};" |
! style="background:{{party color|Moderate Party}};" |
! style="background:{{party color|Green Party (Sweden)}};;" |
! style="background:{{party color|Liberals (Sweden)}};" |
! style="background:{{party color|Centre Party (Sweden)}};" |
! style="background:{{party color|Sweden Democrats}};" |
! style="background:{{party color|Left Party (Sweden)}};;" |
! style="background:{{party color|Christian Democrats (Sweden)}};;" |
! style="background:{{party color|Moderate Party}};" |
! style="background:{{party color|Swedish Social Democratic Party}};" |
!
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Blekinge County (Riksdag constituency)|Blekinge]]
!6
|3
|2
|
|
|
|1
|
|
|2
|3
|1
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Dalarna County (Riksdag constituency)|Dalarna]]
!11
|4
|3
|1
|
|1
|1
|1
|
|4
|6
|1
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Gävleborg County (Riksdag constituency)|Gävleborg]]
!12
|4
|3
|1
|1
|1
|1
|1
|
|5
|6
|1
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Gothenburg Municipality (Riksdag constituency)|Gothenburg]]
!18
|5
|5
|2
|1
|1
|1
|2
|1
|8
|9
|1
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Gotland County (Riksdag constituency)|Gotland]]
!2
|1
|1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|1
|1
|
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Halland County (Riksdag constituency)|Halland]]
!12
|3
|4
|1
|1
|1
|1
|
|1
|7
|4
|1
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Jämtland County (Riksdag constituency)|Jämtland]]
!4
|2
|1
|
|
|1
|
|
|
|2
|2
|
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Jönköping County (Riksdag constituency)|Jönköping]]
!13
|4
|3
|1
|1
|1
|1
|
|2
|7
|5
|1
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Kalmar County (Riksdag constituency)|Kalmar]]
!9
|4
|3
|
|
|1
|
|
|1
|5
|4
|
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Kronoberg County (Riksdag constituency)|Kronoberg]]
!6
|3
|2
|
|
|1
|
|
|
|3
|3
|
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Malmö Municipality (Riksdag constituency)|Malmö]]
!10
|3
|3
|1
|1
|
|1
|1
|
|4
|5
|1
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Norrbotten County (Riksdag constituency)|Norrbotten]]
!9
|6
|2
|
|
|
|
|1
|
|2
|7
|
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Örebro County (Riksdag constituency)|Örebro]]
!12
|4
|3
|1
|1
|
|1
|1
|1
|5
|6
|1
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Östergötland County (Riksdag constituency)|Östergötland]]
!15
|5
|4
|1
|1
|1
|1
|1
|1
|7
|7
|1
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Skåne Northern and Eastern (constituency)|Skåne North and East]]
!12
|3
|4
|1
|1
|1
|1
|
|1
|7
|4
|1
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Skåne Southern (constituency)|Skåne South]]
!13
|3
|5
|1
|1
|1
|1
|
|1
|8
|4
|1
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Skåne Western (constituency)|Skåne West]]
!10
|3
|4
|1
|1
|
|1
|
|
|5
|4
|1
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Södermanland County (Riksdag constituency)|Södermanland]]
!11
|4
|3
|1
|1
|1
|1
|
|
|5
|5
|1
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Stockholm County (Riksdag constituency)|Stockholm County]]
!38
|8
|15
|3
|3
|2
|2
|2
|3
|23
|13
|2
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Stockholm Municipality (Riksdag constituency)|Stockholm Municipality]]
!29
|6
|10
|3
|3
|2
|1
|2
|2
|17
|11
|1
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Uppsala County (Riksdag constituency)|Uppsala]]
!13
|3
|4
|1
|1
|1
|1
|1
|1
|7
|5
|1
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Värmland County (constituency)|Värmland]]
!12
|5
|3
|1
|1
|1
|
|1
|
|5
|7
|
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Västerbotten County (Riksdag constituency)|Västerbotten]]
!11
|4
|2
|1
|1
|1
|
|1
|1
|5
|6
|
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Västernorrland County (Riksdag constituency)|Västernorrland]]
!9
|5
|2
|
|
|1
|
|1
|
|3
|6
|
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Västmanland County (Riksdag constituency)|Västmanland]]
!11
|4
|3
|1
|1
|
|1
|1
|
|4
|6
|1
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Västra Götaland County East (Riksdag constituency)|Västra Götaland East]]
!10
|4
|3
|
|1
|1
|
|
|1
|6
|4
|
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Västra Götaland County North (Riksdag constituency)|Västra Götaland North]]
!12
|3
|3
|1
|1
|1
|1
|1
|1
|6
|5
|1
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Västra Götaland County South (Riksdag constituency)|Västra Götaland South]]
!6
|3
|3
|
|
|
|
|
|
|3
|3
|
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |[[Västra Götaland County West (Riksdag constituency)|Västra Götaland West]]
!13
|3
|4
|1
|1
|1
|1
|1
|1
|7
|5
|1
|-
! style="text-align: left;" |Total
!349
!112
!107
!25
!24
!23
!20
!19
!19
!173
!156
!20
|-
| colspan="14" |Source: [https://www.scb.se/contentassets/b485269e93864392b0640b8b8c6b1c28/me0104_2010a01_br_me01br1101.pdf Statistics Sweden]
|}
== Reactions ==
As exit polls conducted by the national broadcaster [[Swedish Television]] predicted, the Sweden Democrats reached the 4% threshold needed to enter parliament, making this election the first in which they were able to enter parliament.<ref name="aljaz">{{Cite news|title=Swedish ruling bloc retains power |first=Cajsa |last=Wikstrom |newspaper=[[Al Jazeera English]] |date=20 September 2010 |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/09/2010919174619859579.html |
A preliminary count of 5,668 voting districts showed the Alliance with 172 seats, ahead of the Red-Greens.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.val.se/val/val2010/valnatt/R/rike/index.html |title=Val till riksdagen - Valnatt |publisher=val.se |language=
On 23 September, the final results showed the Centre Party gaining an adjustment seat in [[Dalarna County|Dalarna]], giving the Alliance a total seat count of 173, still two seats short of an absolute majority.<ref name="electionresults">{{cite web |url=http://www.val.se/val/val2010/slutresultat/R/rike/index.html |title=Val till riksdagen - Röster |publisher=[[Election Authority (Sweden)|Swedish Election Authority]] |date=23 September 2010 |
On the day after the election, rallies against the Sweden Democrats took place in a number of Swedish cities. Reports indicated that 10,000 people were estimated to have marched in [[Stockholm]] under banners reading "We are ashamed", "No racists in Parliament",<ref>[http://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=3615&grupp=9323&artikel=4030590 "Mass demonstration: We are ashamed"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008063229/http://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=3615&grupp=9323&artikel=4030590 |date=8 October 2012 }}, [[Sveriges Radio]].</ref> and "Refugees – welcome!". In [[Gothenburg]], 5,000 people took part in a "sorrow march against racism", and 2,000 people marched in [[Malmö]]. Support for the Sweden Democrats was strongest in the southernmost province [[Scania]], where the party received about 10% percent of the vote, and in the neighbouring province [[Blekinge]], where they received 9.8 percent; the foreign media quoted "some people" from further north of the country as calling for Scania to be handed back to Denmark, where the Danish People's Party were seen as an inspiration for the SD.{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}}
Liberal evening tabloid ''[[Expressen]]'' wrote in an editorial "The banner of tolerance has been hauled down and the forces of darkness have finally also taken the Swedish democracy as hostage. It's a day of sorrow." Liberal conservative morning newspaper ''[[Svenska Dagbladet]]'' said "[It is] time for the Swedes to get themselves a new national self-image [as the election] created a new picture of Sweden".<ref name="bloomberg">{{Cite web|last=Magnusson |first=Niklas |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-21/swedes-throng-streets-to-protest-against-anti-immigrant-party-in-goverment.html |title=Swedes Protest on Streets as Anti-Immigrants Enter Parliament |publisher=Bloomberg |date=21 September 2010 |
== Analysis ==
{{Politics of Sweden}}
<blockquote>''"While
The election was a landmark for its impact on the Social Democrats, which had been in government for 65 of the last 78 years and who had never lost two consecutive elections. This was their worst result since [[universal suffrage]] in 1921. Swedish [[political science|political scientist]] Stig-Björn Ljunggren said "The Social Democrats no longer symbolise the Swedish model. They've lost their magic." The ''[[Dagens Nyheter]]'' postulated that electoral failure was based on internal factors, such that the Social Democrats failed to win over the middle class and had completely lost touch with their original vision, which had made them a dominant political party.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.swedishwire.com/component/content/article/2:politics/6316:swedish-model-party-in-crisis |title='Swedish model' party in crisis |publisher=Swedishwire.com |
''[[The Irish Times]]'' saw the rise of the SD as sending "ripples of shock not only through the country but through European politics," and asked "Is this finally it for the 'Swedish model'" that has been represented as a "meld of liberal values, high taxes, outstanding childcare and welfare that made the country the poster boy for European social democracy?" The Social Democrats' failure reflected the party's inability to adapt, an increasingly technocratic profile, a failure to address immigration concerns, as well as Reinfeldt's success in managing the economy. The results draws parallels with a larger decline of European left parties.<ref name="irishtimes">{{Cite web|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0922/1224279430777.html |title=Sweden's right - The Irish Times - Wed, Sep 22, 2010 |
The case of Annika Holmqvist, a seriously ill 55-year-old woman who had her sickness benefits withdrawn and was requested to seek work, allegedly due to the Alliance's reforms of Sweden's social security system, gave the opposition a late boost in its campaign. ''[[The Local]]'' thinks it might have deprived the Alliance of an overall majority. Holmqvist's daughter wrote about her case in a [[web log]] post that gained publicity and became a hot topic in the debates. In spite of promises of a solution, after the election it was decided Holmqvist will lose her ''illness''{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}} benefits.<ref>[http://www.thelocal.se/29108/20100919/ Reinfeldt rocked by 'chlamydia letter'], The Local, 19 September 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.thelocal.se/29150/20100921/ 'Chlamydia letter' blogger deprived of benefits], The Local, 21 September 2010.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americablog.com/2010/09/how-blog-post-is-changing-swedish.html|title=How a young woman's blog post is changing the Swedish elections |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100919195249/http://www.americablog.com/2010/09/how-blog-post-is-changing-swedish.html |archive-date=19 September 2010 |author=
The Moderate Party was still seen as one of the big winners of the election because of its "well-executed campaign" that emphasised Sweden's "remarkable political and economic stability in a turbulent world" after Sweden weathered the [[2008 recession|recession]]; despite mass unemployment, the economic growth in 2010 was the highest in Western Europe.<ref name="the local"/>
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{{See also|Cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt}}
The Alliance formed the new government with Reinfeldt continuing as prime minister. His cabinet has 24 [[Minister (government)|ministers]], three more than the previous one. The Moderates received 13 posts, an increase of three from their previous count, with the [[Liberal People's Party (Sweden)|Liberals]] (4), [[Centre Party (Sweden)|Centre]] (4) and [[Christian Democrats (Sweden)|Christian Democrats]] (3) not gaining or losing ministers. [[Jan Björklund]], the leader of the Liberal Party, was promoted to Deputy Prime Minister replacing [[Maud Olofsson]]. [[Carl Bildt]] remained Foreign Minister and [[Anders Borg]] remained Minister for Finance. The new ministers are [[Stefan Attefall]], the Minister for Public Administration and Housing at the [[Ministry of Health and Social Affairs (Sweden)|Ministry of Health and Social Affairs]]; [[Ulf Kristersson]], replacing [[Cristina Husmark Pehrsson]] as [[Minister for Social Security (Sweden)|Minister for Social Security]]; [[Erik Ullenhag]], the Minister for Integration at the [[Ministry of Employment (Sweden)|Ministry of Employment]]; [[Hillevi Engström]], the [[Minister for Employment (Sweden)|Minister for Employment]]; [[Anna-Karin Hatt]], the Minister for Information Technology and Regional Affairs at the [[Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications (Sweden)|Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications]]; [[Peter Norman (politician)|Peter Norman]], replacing [[Mats Odell]] as [[Minister for Financial Markets (Sweden)|Minister for Financial Markets]]; and [[Catharina Elmsäter-Svärd]], replacing [[Åsa Torstensson]] as [[Minister for Communications (Sweden)|Minister for Communications]]. [[Tobias Krantz]], former Minister of Higher Education at the [[Ministry of Education and Research (Sweden)|Ministry of Education and Research]], is leaving with no successor having been named.<ref name="DN new cabinet">{{cite web|url=http://www.dn.se/nyheter/valet2010/reinfeldts-nya-regering-1.1183404|title=Reinfeldts nya regering|date=5 October 2010|publisher=DN.se|language=
Reinfeldt issued a 30-page statement of the new government's policies, saying it would "seek a broad-based and responsible solutions (''sic'')", and that it would "be natural...to hold regular discussions with the Green Party, in the first instance and also the Social Democratic Party where appropriate."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.cri.cn/6966/2010/10/06/1881s597843.htm|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20171020112444/http://english.cri.cn/6966/2010/10/06/1881s597843.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 October 2017|title=Swedish PM Announces his New Cabinet, Policies
== References ==
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== External links ==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100817194746/http://www.val.se/valet_2010/ Val 2010] from the [http://www.val.se/ main website], [https://web.archive.org/web/20100809074829/http://www.val.se/in_english/index.html
* [http://www.nsd.uib.no/european_election_database/country/sweden/ NSD: European Election Database - Sweden] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811053052/http://www.nsd.uib.no/european_election_database/country/sweden/ |date=11 August 2010 }} publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1992–2010
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